Richard Robert Madden

Richard Robert Madden (* 1798 in Dublin, † February 5, 1886 ) was an Irish writer.

Madden was employed since 1833 in British government service, first as a magistrate in Jamaica, then since 1835 as superintendent of liberated Africans in Havana. He was appointed in 1839 to study Commissioner on the slave trade on the west coast of Africa, 1847 Secretary for the Western Australian colonies and in 1850 the secretary of the Office for loan fund in Dublin.

Part of his writings, apart from several travel books ( Travels in Turkey, Egypt etc. in 1824-27, 1829, among others ), the most important work, The United Irishmen, Their Lives and times (1843, rewritten in 1858, 4 vols ), with rich detail about the causes of the Irish rebellion of 1798.

In addition:

  • The shrines and sepulchres of the old and new world ( 1851)
  • The life and martyrdom of Savonarola (1854 )
  • Memoirs of the countess of Blessington (1853 )
  • Phantasms, or illusions and fanaticisms of an epidemic character ( 1857)
  • Galileo and the Inquisition (1863 )
  • History of Irish periodical literature (1867 )

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  • Author
  • Irishman
  • Person (Dublin)
  • Born in 1798
  • Died in 1886
  • Man
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