James Ashley Maude

James Ashley Maude (1786–1841) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the Royal Navy.

Origins James Ashley Maude was the third son of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden, by his third wife, Isabella Elizabeth Stanley, sister to the 1st Viscount Monck. His ancestor, Christopher Maude, a member of the Irish House of Commons, emigrated from Yorkshire, and settled at Dundrum, County Tipperary, about the year 1639.

After this escape, Maude followed Lord Keith into the Minotaur, 74 guns; and was present, in that ship, at the blockade and consequent surrender of Genoa, in the summer of 1800. On 3 August 1801, being then in the Phoenix, 36 guns, Captain (afterwards Sir Lawrence W.) Halsted, he also witnessed the capture of a French 40-gun frigate, the Carrere, near Elba; and on 2 September 1802, the destruction of the Bravoure, 46 guns, and re-capture of a British 32-gun frigate, the Success, near Leghorn. In November 1809, Lieutenant Maude received an order to act as commander of the Wizard sloop, in which vessel he was first employed, under Captain the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleeming, of the Bulwark, 74 guns, in destroying all the batteries between Tarifa and Gibraltar, with the concurrence of the Spanish authorities; and subsequently, in convoying some transports laden with corn, from Sardinia to Cádiz. Whilst performing the latter service, he suffered severely from the effects of fever, and was consequently obliged to invalid.

When on his return from the Halifax station, Captain Maude fell in with the Actæon sloop, and assisted in capturing a French schooner privateer, of 14 guns and 95 men. In July 1816, he discovered several islands on the southern side of the Persian Gulph, previously unknown to European navigators. Captain Maude continued on the Mediterranean station until August 1828; and paid off the Glasgow, at Chatham, on 8 September. He died in 1841.

Personal life Captain Maude married, on 18 October 1817, Albinia, second daughter of his Grace the Hon. Charles Brodrick, D.D., the Archbishop of Cashel.

Honours