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MAXEY, ANTHONY; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1577, adm. scholar 18 Apr 1578, matr. Easter 1578; BA 1581/2; MA 1585; BD 1594; DD 1608; ordained deacon and priest (Lincoln) 7 May 1589; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. 1589-93; Rector of Hackford, Norfolk 1589-1602; Rector of Horham, Suffolk 1591-5; Rector of Reepham, Norfolk 1594-1612; Rector of Winterton, Norfolk, from 1601; Rector of Horton, Bucks., from 1612; Dean of Windsor from 25 Jun 1612; Rector of Blyborough, Lincs., from 1617; ‘an unblushing simonist’; said to have made the highest bid for the vacant bishopric of Norwich shortly before his death (CSP Dom 1611-8, 532); a Chaplain in Ordinary to James I; m.; d. 3 May 1618. DNB.

MAURICE, PETER, brother of Maesmore Maurice (qv); b.; adm.; KS (aged 12) 1733; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1737, but went to Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Jul 1737, aged 18, scholar 1737, Hody exhibitioner 1738-42; BA 1741; MA 1749; ordained deacon (Winchester ) 19 Dec 1743; Rector of Llanllechid, Caernarvonshire 4 Jan 1744/5-8; Chancellor of Bangor 5 May 1747-8, Treasurer 19 Mar 1747/8-50, Prebendary 10 May 1750-8; m. Margaret, dau. of William Lewis, Trysglwyn, Anglesey. [will of Peter Maurice, clerk, Maysneor, Denbighshire, proved PCC 1 Dec 1759]

MAUDE, CHARLES FREWEN, brother of Arthur Maude (qv); b. 15 Jun 1848; adm. 30 Sep 1859 (G); QS 1863; left Whitsun 1867; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 20 May 1866; BA 1872; MA 1877; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1872, priest 21 Dec 1873 (both Chichester); Curate, Salehurst, Sussex 1872-7; Rector of Woodham Mortimer, Essex 1877-86; Rector of St. James’s, Colchester, Essex 1886; Vicar of St. James’s, Stanway, Essex 1886-8; Rector of Burwash, Sussex, from 6 Nov 1888; m. 13 Jan 1880 Florence Jane, dau. of Alexander Orr (qv); d. while celebrating Holy Communion in Burwash church 7 Mar 1909.

MAUD, JOHN PRIMATT, son of Rev. John Primatt Maud, Swainswick, Somerset, and Matilda Elizabeth Hains, Swainswick, Somerset; b. 31 Dec 1823; adm. 22 Jan 1838 (Scott's); QS 1838; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1842, matr. 12 May 1842, Westminster Student 1842-4; migrated to Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1844; LLB 1860; Cadet, EICS Madras 1845; Ensign, 5th Native Infantry 15 Jun 1846; Lieut., 16 Feb 1850; Capt., 15 Sep 1857; retd. 30 Mar 1859; served in Second Burmese War 1851-3 and in Indian Mutiny; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861 (both Chester); Curate, St. Paul’s, Tranmere, Cheshire 1860-1, Langtoft, Lincs. 1861-2; Vicar of Ancaster, Lincs., 1862-95; m. 18 Nov 1856 Fanny Elizabeth Dorothy, dau. of Lieut. William Croudace; d. 11 Apr 1899.

MAUD, HENRY LANDON, brother of John Primatt Maud (qv); b. 24 Feb 1829; adm. 30 Sep 1841 (Scott's); QS 1842; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1846, matr. 23 May 1846; BA 1850; MA 1881; ordained deacon 1853, priest 1854 (both Canterbury); Curate, Patrixbourne, Kent 1853, subsequently of Brigstock, Northants, and St. Giles in the Fields, London; Vicar of Assington, Suffolk 1866-77; Vicar of New Milverton, Warwickshire 1877-91; Rector of Sanderstead, Surrey 1892-1902; m. 12 Jun 1855 Amelia Harriet, youngest dau. of Col. Thomas Powell, Rifle Brigade and King’s Horse; d. 7 Mar 1909.

MATY, PAUL HENRY, only son of Matthew Maty MD FRS, Principal Librarian, British Museum, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Louis Chevalleau, Sieur de Boisragon; b. 18 Dec 1744; adm.; Min. Can. 1757; Edward Gibbon (adm. 1747/8, qv), in a letter to his father of 14 Dec 1758, writes that “I saw at her [Mrs Porten’s] house Dr Maty’s son, a little odd cur, and by an unexampled generosity I tipped the boy with a crown, and the father with a coal of fire” (Private Letters of Edward Gibbon, ed. Prothero, 1896, i, 18); KS (aged 13) 1758; Capt. of the School 1762; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1763, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1763, scholar 25 Jun 1764, Worts travelling scholar 1767; 11th Wrangler 1767; BA 1767; MA 1770; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1768, Major Fellow 4 Jul 1770-5; Grand Tour (Italy) 1767-8; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1770, priest 26 May 1771 (both London); Chaplain to David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont (S) (afterwards 2nd Earl of Mansfield) (qv), when British Ambassador at Paris; did not seek clerical preferment after 1776 owing to doubts about the Thirty-Nine Articles; FRS 16 May 1771, Foreign Secretary 13 Feb 1772 – 30 Jun 1774, Principal Secretary 30 Nov 1778 – 5 May 1778; Assistant Librarian, British Museum 1776-82, Under Librarian, Dept. of Natural History and Antiquities 1782; started The New Review 1782; compiler, A General Index to the Philosophical Transactions, vols 1-70; author of two translations and a volume of sermons; lic. to m. 15 Sep 1775 Harriet, dau. of Joseph Clerke, Wethersfield, Essex; d. 16 Jan 1787. DNB.

MATTOCK, RICHARD, son of Richard Mattock, London; b.; at school under Busby three years (J. E. B. Mayor and R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., i, 50); Min. Can. 1636; KS 1637; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 17 Oct 1639, aged 18, Bishop Williams scholar 6 Nov 1639, matr. 1639 (as “Mallock”).

MATTHEW, JOHN (alias MARLER, CHRISTOPHER); b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1588, adm. scholar 1589; BA 1592/3; MA 1596; Roman Catholic convert; English Coll., Valladolid, Spain, adm. 30 May 1599, aged 27; took oath 2 Feb 1600; ordained priest (RC) Sep 1602; sent to England early in 1603, but deported in following year after a period of confinement in the Gatehouse Prison, Westminster; set out from Douai 10 Dec 1604 to return to England.

MATHEWS, MAURICE, fifth son of Robert Mathews, Llanyblodwel, Shropshire, and Ursula ---; b.; adm.; KS 1665; failed to obtain election to either University 1667; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jul 1667, aged 17; m. 2 Jan 1667/8 Frances Lewis, St. Margaret’s, Westminster.

MATHEWE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).