Richard Robert Madden
Richard Robert Madden (* 1798 in Dublin ; † February 5, 1886 there ) was an Irish writer .
Madden had been employed in the English government service since 1833, first as a justice of the peace in Jamaica , then since 1835 as superintendent of the liberated Africans in Havana. He was appointed commissioner of inquiry into the slave trade in the West Coast of Africa in 1839 , secretary for the Western Australian colonies in 1847 and secretary of the Dublin Loan Fund Bureau in 1850.
Apart from several travelogues ( Travels in Turkey, Egypt etc. in 1824–27 , 1829 and others), his writings include the historically significant work The United Irishmen, their lives and times (1843; revised 1858, 4 vols.) rich detail on the causes of the Irish uprising of 1798.
Besides:
- 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)
- Phantasmata, or illusions and fanaticisms of an epidemic character (1857)
- Galileo and the inquisition (1863)
- History of Irish periodical literature (1867)
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| SURNAME | Madden, Richard Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 5, 1886 |
| Place of death | Dublin |