Richard Robert Madden 1798 – 1886
Richard Robert Madden 1798 – 1886 was an Irish doctor, writer, abolitionist and historian of the United Irishmen.
Richard Madden was a patient of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and a friend of the Countess of Blessington, Keppel Richard Craven, Charles James Mathews, and the Count D’Orsay.
Richard Madden was also a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners, alongside George Edward Allshorn, George Atkin, Francis Black, John Chapman, Paul Francois Curie, John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, George Fearon, Edward Hamilton, William Hering, C. B. Kerr, William Kingdon, Joseph Laurie, Thomas Robinson Leadam, John Ozanne, David Wilson and many others.
Richard Madden was born at Wormwood Gate, Dublin to Edward Madden, a silk manufacturer. He was educated at private schools. He studied medicine in Paris, Italy, and St George’s Hospital, London. While in Naples he became acquainted with the Countess of Blessingto and her circle.
Madden was employed in the British civil service from 1833, first as a justice of the peace in Jamaica, where he was one of six Special Magistrates sent to oversee the eventual liberation of Jamaica’s slave population, according to the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
From 1835 he was Superintendent of the freed Africans in Havana. In 1839 he became the investigating officer into the slave trade on the west coast of Africa, in 1847 the secretary for the West Australian colonies. He retuned to Dublin and in 1850 he was named secretary of the Office for Loan Funds in Dublin.
He died at at his home in Booterstown, just south of Dublin city, in 1886.
Of interest:
Edward Madden, father of Richard Robert Madden, was a silk manufacturer in Dublin (and ?possibly a colleague of Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour).
Edward M Madden MD Surgeon for Diseases of Women to the Birmingham and Midland Homeopathic Hospital, was a leading member and President of the British Homeopathic Society, and also a friend of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin.
Edward M Madden practiced at 36 Sackville Street, Piccadilly in 1871.
Edward M Madden was a contemporary of William Bayes, Charles Harrison Blackley, John Galley Blackley, David Dyce Brown, George Henry Burford, James Compton Burnett, John Moorhead Byres Moir, John Henry Clarke, H A Clifton Harris, Robert Thomas Cooper, R M Le Hunt Cooper, Paul Francois Curie, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, John Epps, Washington Epps, Giles Forward Goldsbrough, Clarence Granville Hey, Richard Hughes, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, James Johnstone, C T Knox Shaw, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin, David MacNish, Edwin Awdas Neatby, Ethelbert Petrie Hoyle, Alfred Crosby Pope, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Mathias Roth, Edward Wynne Thomas, Florence Nightingale Ward, Charles Edwin Wheeler, John Weir, David Wilson, James Craven Wood, Dudley d’Auvergne Wright, Stephen Yeldham and many others.
Edward M Madden wrote various articles and submitted cases to many homeopathic journals and publications.
Henry R Madden was a British homeopath in 1868, and a colleague of E M Madden and the other homeopaths listed above.
Henry R Madden used the Magnetometer to investigate all of the remedies in the Homeopathic Pharmacopaeia.
Henry R Madden practiced in Brighton.
Henry R Madden wrote various articles and submitted cases to many homeopathic journals and publications.
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