Martin Madan (MP)
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Colonel Martin Madan, groom of the bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, and MP for Wootton Basset between 1742-1747. Madan also serves as a colonel in the Dragoon Guards Martin Madan was married to Judith Madan (nee Cowper) the English poet who called him Lysander in a poem entitled "To Lysander" composed on October 3rd 1726, one year after the birth of their son.
Their sons included Rev. Martin Madan, author of Thelyphthora a defence of polygamy, and the Right Rev. Spencer Madan, bishop successively of Bristol and Peterborough. Their elder daughter, Maria Frances Cecilia, married William Cowper of Hertingfordbury, her first cousin; the younger daughter Penelope (died 22 December 1805), became the wife of General Sir Alexander Maitland(1728–1820). Madan was the grandfather of General Frederick Maitland.
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| Preceded by John Harvey-Thursby and Robert Neale |
Member of Parliament for Wootton Basset with
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Succeeded by John Probyn and Thomas Estcourt Cresswell |
Madan died at Bath 4 March, 1756.
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- William Prideaux Courtney: Dodsley's Collection of Poetry(1910)
