Frederic William Madden (9 April 1839 – 21 June 1904), son of

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 Carte ...

, was an employee of the

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and an authority on Roman, Jewish and Christian

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Biography

Madden was born in the British Museum on 9 April 1839. He attended Merchant Taylors', St Paul's and

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Schools. He became an assistant in the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum in 1861, and remained there until 1868. He resigned under a cloud, after an investigation of his sale of duplicate Roman coins in a donation by

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. Madden then worked on various International Exhibitions. In 1874 he became Secretary and Librarian to

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, and from 1888 to 1902 he was Chief Librarian of the Public Library in

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. He died at Holt Lodge, Brighton on 21 June 1904.

Numismatics

Madden joined the

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in 1858, became Secretary in 1860, and was a joint editor of its journal, the ''

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'', from 1860 to 1868. He was especially associated with research on Jewish, Christian and Roman coins. He was a member of the

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from 1877, and belonged also to American learned societies.

Publications

*''The Handbook of Roman Numismatics'' (1861) *''The History of Jewish Coinage and Money in the Old and New Testaments'' (1864) *''The Coins of the Jews'' (1881)

References

External links

The papers of Frederic William Madden at the Portsmouth History Centre
{{DEFAULTSORT:Madden, Frederic William Employees of the British Museum 1839 births 1904 deaths British numismatists