Madan, Spencer (2)
Madan, Spencer
(1), D.D., an Anglican prelate, was born about the middle of the 18th century; became bishop of Bristol in 1792, and of Peterborough in 1794. He died in 1813. Bishop Madan published several occasional Sermons (London, 1792, 8vo, and often), and a translation of Grotius’s De Veritate Christianae Religionis (1781-83,1813). See Gentleman’s Magazine, 1837, 1:206.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Madan, Spencer (2)
(2), D.D., an English divine, son of the preceding, was born in 1759; was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge; was rector first of Ibstock, Leicestershire, and later of Thorp, in Staffordshire. He was also chaplain for the king about thirty years, and prebend of Peterborough. He died in 1836. He published several sermons.