MADAN, SPENCER, eldest son of Spencer Madan (adm. 1738, qv), and his first wife; b. 25 Aug 1758; adm. 20 Mar 1770; KS 1771; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1776, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1776, scholar 18 Apr 1777, matr. Mich. 1776; Sir W. Browne’s medal for Epigrams 1778; MA (check) 1779; Seatonian Prize 1782; DD 1809; adm. Middle Temple 12 Apr 1776; ordained deacon 23 Jun 1782, priest 10 Nov 1782 (both Peterborough); Curate, Wrotham, Kent 1782-3; Rector of Great Bradley, Suffolk 1783; Prebendary of Lichfield 1785-6, Treasurer 1787-1809; Rector of Ibstock, Leics., from 1786; Rector of St. Philip’s, Birmingham 1787-1809; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III, George IV and William IV 1787 (still 1831); Prebendary of Peterborough 22 Jan 1800; Rector of Thorpe Constantine, Staffs. 1809-24; author, translation of Grotius’s De Veritate, 1782, and A Letter to Dr Priestley, 1790; m. 5 Jan 1791 Henrietta, dau. of William Inge (adm. 1748/9, qv); d. 9 Oct 1836. DNB.
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Houses
- NT Armfeild's
- NT Ashburnham
- NT Ashby's
- NT Atwood's
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- NT College
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- NT Homeboarders'
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- NT Wynniate's