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 too old for such a strain, and he returned to London, where he worked partly at St. James's, Spanish Place, but spent most of his time in preaching at different places. He visited America again in 1913. In 1914 he was offered simultaneously the parish of the Holy Redeemer in Chelsea, and the chaplaincy of the Catholics in the university of Oxford. Maturin accepted the latter task, but had hardly taken it up when the War broke out and the university was left empty of undergraduates. He went once more to the United States, preached there during the Lent of 1915, and then, in May, sailed for England on the Lusitania. The vessel was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May. Fr. Maturin was observed standing to give absolution to the passengers, and then lowering a child into a boat, saying, ‘Find its mother’. His body had no life-belt on it when it was washed ashore, and it was generally supposed that he refused one, as there were not enough to go round.

Maturin's chief works were: Some Principles and Practices of the Spiritual Life (1896), Practical Studies on the Parables of Our Lord (1897), Self-Knowledge and Self-Discipline (1905), Laws of the Spiritual Life (1907), and The Price of Unity (1912); the last gives some idea of the mental course which he followed on the way to the Church of Rome. After his death a volume of Sermons and Sermon Notes was edited and arranged (1916) by his friend Wilfrid Philip Ward. His books reveal a deep spirituality and an active imagination. But it was the vehemence of his sermons, combined with the acute psychological insight displayed in them and in his direction of penitents, that accounted for the profound influence which he exercised and of which he remained almost unaware. Depression and exaltation alternated in his Irish soul; but he applied to himself the discipline which he so well supplied to others.

 MAUDE, FREDERICK STANLEY (1864–1917), lieutenant-general, the younger son of General Sir Frederick Francis Maude, V.C., G.C.B., by his wife, Catherine Mary, daughter of the Very Rev. Sir George Bisshopp, eighth baronet, dean of Lismore, was born at Gibraltar 24 June 1864. He was educated at Eton, where he boarded at the house of Francis Warre Cornish, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. At Eton he won the mile and the steeplechase, was reserve for the eight and a member of ‘Pop’. He joined the second Coldstream Guards in 1884, and in the Sudan campaign of 1885 accompanied them to Suakin, being present at the actions of Hashin and Tamai and the occupation of Handub, and receiving the medal with clasp and khedive's star. From 1888 to 1892 he was adjutant of his battalion. In 1895 he joined the Staff College at Camberley, and on completing the staff course became brigade-major of the Guards brigade. During the 1897 jubilee much of the military organization devolved on Maude—congenial work, as he had a liking for parade work and ceremonial. After the outbreak of the South African War, he resigned his appointment and joined his battalion on the Modder river at the close of 1899. For a month he was second in command, but was then appointed brigade-major. Lord Roberts's offensive was just beginning, and the Guards moved to Klip Drift, having been called to the front after Paardeberg (27 February 1900). They took part in the actions of Poplar Grove and Driefontein, where Maude was seriously injured by his horse falling. He was unable to receive proper attention at the time and suffered from his shoulder for the rest of his life. He accompanied the brigade to Johannesburg and Pretoria and took part in the action at Diamond Hill and in the operations north of Belfast, and in the western Transvaal. The brigade was then sent south to oppose the attack of the Boers on Cape Colony. It being generally supposed that the campaign was as good as finished, Maude accepted an offer from the Earl of Minto [q.v.], then governor-general of Canada, to be his military secretary. In February 1901 he left South Africa for England.

Maude's record in South Africa was good, but he was unlucky in not reaching the Guards brigade until after the severest fighting in which it was engaged. General Sir Reginald Pole Carew, commanding the eleventh division, applied for his services as assistant adjutant-general, but unfortunately for Maude, this was not possible. Thus he did not obtain full scope for his qualities in the campaign. He received the D.S.O., a mention, and the medal and six clasps. The next four years were spent with Lord Minto in Canada, where he visited practically the whole of the Dominion and for his services received the C.M.G. In 1905 he rejoined his regiment. Financial reasons, however, made him anxious to obtain outside employment. He was private secretary to the secretary of state for war in 1905, and 372