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LEGGE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, eldest son of Hon. and Rev. Augustus George Legge FSA, Chancellor of Winchester, and Honora, eldest dau. of Walter Bagot (qv); grandson of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth (qv); b. 8 Jul 1801; adm. Mich. 1813; KS 1816; left 1820; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 25 Apr 1820, Canoneer Student 1821-5; BA 1824; ordained priest 10 Jul 1825 (York); Vicar of Bray, Berks., from 27 Jun 1825; m. 23 Aug 1825 Frances Augusta, eldest dau. of William Atkins-Bowyer, Braywick, Berks.; d. 16 Jun 1826.

LITTLEDALE, ARTHUR, son of Charles Littledale (qv); b. 12 Dec 1815; adm. 12 Jun 1828 (Stikeman's); KS 1829; left 1833; at Haileybury Coll. 1834; Writer, EICS Bengal 1834; arrived in India 26 Sep 1835; Assistant to Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit, Bauleah 30 Aug 1836, Dacca 1838; Magistrate at Faridpur, Dacca, Murshidabad and Mymensingh 1843, Tipperah 1849, Sylhet 1850, Rajeshahye 1851, Purnea 1854; Collector, Sarun 1857; Civil and Sessions Judge, Nudda 1859; retd. 1 Aug 1861; m. 1st, 28 Oct 1835 Henrietta Catherine, only dau. of George Ewan Law (qv); m. 2nd, 20 Jan 1853 Emily, dau. of Richard Barnes; d. 2 Sep 1888.

LITTLEDALE, CHARLES RICHARD, eldest son of Charles Littledale (qv); b. 1 Jan 1807; adm. 14 Apr 1819 (Packharness'); KS (Capt. ) 1820; Capt. of the School 1824; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1825, matr. 16 May 1825, Westminster Student; BA 1830; MA 1831; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 16 Jun 1829, called to bar 22 Nov 1833; Northern Circuit and Liverpool Sessions; JP Berkshire 1863; m. 16 Jun 1835 Emily Charlotte, dau. of Charles Hammersley, Park Crescent, London; d. 19 Jan 1892.

MACLEAY, SIR GEORGE, brother of William Sharp Macleay (qv); b. 29 Jul 1809; adm. 8 Jul 1822; family correspondence indicates that he was expelled Feb 1827; went out to Australia 1827; accompanied Sturt on the expedition down the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers 1829-30; farmed Brownlow Hill estate, New South Wales 1831-59; member, Legislative Council, New South Wales 1851-6, Legislative Assembly 1856-9; CMG 30 Jun 1869; KCMG 5 Mar 1875; returned to England 1859; subsequently resident in south of France; interested in horticulture, zoology and the fine arts; member, Society of Dilettanti 1869; m. 1st, 1842 Barbara St. Clair, dau. of James Innes, Thrumster, Caithness; m. 2nd, 15 Jan 1890 Augusta Annie, dau. of William Gardner Sams, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia; d. at Menton, France 24 Jun 1891. DNB s. v. Alexander Macleay.

MACLEAY, JAMES ROBERT, brother of William Sharp Macleay (qv); b. 15 Apr 1811; adm. 8 Jul 1822; KS 1825; family correspondence indicated that he left in Christmas 1827; Secretary to British Legation, Chile 1838; Registrar, Mixed Commission at Cape of Good Hope for Suppression of Slave Trade Jan 1843- May 1858; m. 1837 Amelia Savage; d. 28 Oct 1892. DNB s. v. Alexander Macleay. [1881 Census records wife as born Mauritius]

MACLEAY, WILLIAM SHARP, eldest son of Alexander Macleay FRS, Speaker, Legislative Council, New South Wales, and Elizabeth, dau. of James Barclay of Urie [county]; b. 30 Jul 1792; adm. 19 Apr 1806; left 1810; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 7 Jun 1810; BA 1814; MA 1818; attaché, British Embassy, Paris; Secretary to Board for liquidating British claims in France 1815; attached to Mixed British and Spanish Court for abolition of Slave Trade, Havana 1825-37, successively as Commissioner of Arbitration 1825, Commissary Judge 1830, and Judge 1836 – ret 1 Feb 1837; went to live in New South Wales, Australia 1839; a distinguished zoologist; author, Horae Entomologicae, 1819-21, and other works; d. unm. at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 26 Jan 1865. DNB.

MADAN, SPENCER, eldest son of Spencer Madan (adm. 1770, qv); b. 6 Oct 1791; adm. 13 Apr 1803; KS 1806; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1810, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1810, Canoneer Student; 1st cl. Mathematics 1813; BA 1814; MA 1816; tutor to the younger sons of Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond, and as such present at the Duchess of Richmond’s ball at Brussels 15 Jun 1815 (Notes and Queries, 11th Series, xii, 1, 21); ordained; Curate, Nether Seale, Leics. 1816-24; Prebendary of Lichfield from 4 Dec 1817; Vicar of Batheaston, Somerset, from 3 Oct 1824; Vicar of Twerton, Somerset 6 Oct 1825; m. 26 Jul 1825 Louisa Elizabeth, sister of Sir William Nigel Gresley, Bart. (qv); d. 27 Aug 1851.

MADDY, E.; b.; at school under Carey (name up School, 1806).

MAHONY, JOHN, brother of Robert Hickson (qv); b. 1816; assumed surname of Mahony in lieu of Hickson 11 Dec 1827, in compliance with will of maternal uncle; adm. 15 Apr 1830; KS 1831; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1835, matr. 4 Jun 1835, Westminster Student; BA 1839; MA 1842; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 1840, and Middle Temple 23 Apr 1844; signed Play Protest 1847.

MARKHAM, FREDERICK, third son of John Markham (adm. 1768, qv); b. 16 Aug 1805; adm. 15 Jun 1814; KS 1820; expelled for a scrape which he got into when boating in Apr 1824 (A Naval Career during the Old War, 1883, pp 275-6); Ensign, 32nd Foot 13 May 1824; Lieut., 22 Oct 1825; Capt., 16 Apr 1829; Maj., 28 Sep 1839; Lieut. -Col., 22 Jul 1842; Brevet Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 2 Aug 1850; Maj. -Gen., 28 Nov 1854; Lieut. -Gen., local rank, 30 Jul 1855; second to Capt. Smyth, 32nd Foot, in his fatal duel with Standish O’Grady 18 Mar 1830, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham Gaol; served in Lower Canada during insurrection of 1837, wounded at St. Denis; served in Punjab campaign 1848-9, wounded at siege of Mooltan; CB 5 Jun 1849; Adjutant-Gen., British Army in India Mar – Nov 1854; appointed to command of Peshawar division, but recalled from India in 1854 to proceed to the Crimea; commanded Second Division in attack on the Redan 8 Sep 1855; shortly afterwards invalided home; author, Shooting in the Himalayas, 1854; d. unm. 21 Dec 1855. DNB.