Thomas Herbert Maddock

For the inventor, see Thomas Maddock.

Sir Thomas Herbert Maddock (18 May 1792 15 January 1870)[1][2] was a British civil servant in India and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1852 to 1857.

Life

Maddock was the son of the Rev. Thomas Maddock and Emily Anne Scott, daughter of Rokeby Scott of Chester. He was educated at Manchester School.[3] In 1811, he entered the Civil Service of the East India Company's Bengal Presidency. He was Secretary to the Government of India from 1838 to 1843, and was knighted by patent on 25 April 1844. From 1845 to 1849 he was Deputy Governor of Bengal and President of the Council of India.[1]

Maddock was elected at the 1852 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester,[4] but did not stand again in 1857.[4]

Maddock died in London aged 77 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.[1]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ralph Bernal
Thomas Twisden Hodges
Member of Parliament for Rochester
18521857
With: Hon. Francis Child Villiers
Philip Wykeham Martin
Succeeded by
Philip Wykeham Martin
John Alexander Kinglake


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