A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Maude, Francis
MAUDE. (Commander, 1827. f-p., 13; h-p., 23.)
The Honourable Francis Maude, born in 1798, is fifth and youngest son of the first Cornwallis Maude, by his third wife, Anne Isabella, daughter of Thos. Monck, Esq., barrister-at-law, and niece of Viscount Monck; and brother (with Capt. Hon. Sir Jas. Ashley Maude, R.N., C.B., K.C.H. (1814), who died 23 Oct. 1841) of the present Viscount. He is brother-in-law of Lord Wm. Stuart, Lord Robt. Ponsonby Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, Lord Lifford, and Lord Dunalley.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 20 Nov. 1811; and embarked, 24 April, 18J4, on board the Prince 98, Capt. Geo. Fowke, bearing the flag of Sir Rich. Bickerton at Spithead. In the course of the same year he joined the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart, and also the Favorite 20, commanded by his brother, Capt. Hon. Jas. Ashley Maude. In that vessel, after having brought home from America the ratification of the treaty of Ghent, he proceeded to the East Indies; where, in Dec. 1816, 20 months after he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Magicienne 36, Capt. John Brett Purvis. In Aug. 1819, he became Admiralty-Midshipman of the Superb 78, bearing the broad pendant in South America of Sir Thos. Masterman Hardy; who, on 24 May, 1820, nominated him Lieutenant of that ship. He was confirmed, 7 Oct. following, in the Icarus 10, Capt. Henry Algernon Eliot; and returning home about June, 1821, was next, from 13 Dec. 1823, until promoted to the rank of Commander, 30 April, 1827, employed in the Grasshopper 18, Capts. John Geo. Aplin and another. He has not been since afloat.
Commander Maude married, 4 Sept. 1827, Frances, second daughter of Hon. A. H. Brooking, Collector of His Majesty’s Customs at St. John’s, Newfoundland, and Member of the Council for that island. By that lady, who died in 1832, he had issue a son and two daughters. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.