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Frederic Madden
Sir Frederic Madden KH (16 February 1801 – 8 March 1873) was an English palaeographer.
==Biography==
Born in Portsmouth, he was the son of William John Madden (1757-1833), a Captain in the Royal Marines of Irish origin, and his wife Sarah Carter (1759-1833). From his childhood he displayed a flair for linguistic and antiquarian studies. In 1826 he was engaged by the British Museum to assist in the preparation of the classified catalogue of printed books, and in 1828 he became assistant keeper of manuscripts. In 1832 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Library and Archive Cataloge )〕 At the age of 32 he was made a knight,〔'St James's Palace, March 13, 1833. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Frederic Madden Esq, of the British Museum, Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order' London Gazette, 1833, p123 https://books.google.co.uk/ Retrieved 12 November 2015〕 entitling him to the initials KH after his name, and in 1837 he succeeded Josiah Forshall as keeper of manuscripts. He did not get on well with his colleagues, and retired in 1866.
Madden was the leading palaeographer of his day. However, his ignorance of German prevented his ranking high as a philologist, although he paid much attention to the early dialectical forms of French and English. His minor contributions to antiquarian research were numerous: the best known, perhaps, was his dissertation on the spelling of Shakespeare's name, which, mainly on the strength of a signature found in John Florio's copy of the work of Montaigne, he contended should be "Shakspere." This led to a lengthy debate and to a period when the "Shakspere" spelling nearly became the norm.〔John Louis Haney, ''(The Name of William Shakespeare: a Study in Orthography )'', Egerton, 1906, pp. 42-50.〕
On his death at his home in St Stephen's Square, London, he bequeathed his journals and other private papers to the Bodleian Library, where they were to remain unopened until 1920.
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