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MADAN, MARTIN (1726-1790)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MADAN, See also:MARTIN (1726-1790) , See also:English writer, was educated at See also:Westminster School, and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he graduated in 1746. In 1748 he was called to the See also:bar, and for some See also:time lived a very See also:gay See also:life, until he was persuaded to See also:change his ways on See also:hearing a See also:sermon by See also:John See also:Wesley. He took See also:holy orders, and was appointed See also:chaplain to the See also:Lock See also:Hospital, See also:London. He was closely connected with the Calvinistic Methodist See also:movement supported by the countess of See also:Huntingdon, and from time to time acted as an itinerant preacher. He was a first See also:cousin of See also:William See also:Cowper, with whom he had some See also:correspondence on religious matters. In 1767 much adverse comment was aroused by his support of his friend See also:Thomas See also:Haweis in a controversy arising out of the latter's See also:possession of the living of Aldwinkle, See also:Northamptonshire (see Monthly See also:Review, See also:xxxvii. 382, 390, 465). In 178o Madan raised more serious See also:storm of opposition by the publication of his Thelyphthora, or A See also:Treatise on See also:Female Ruin, in which he advocated See also:polygamy as the remedy for the evils he deplored. The author was no doubt sincere in his arguments, which he based chiefly on scriptural authority; but his See also:book called forth many angry replies. Nineteen attacks on it are catalogued by See also:Falconer Madan in Dict. Nat. Biog.

Madan resigned his chaplainship and retired to See also:

Epsom, where he produced, among other See also:works, A New and Literal See also:Translation of See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius (1789).

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