Spencer Madan (translator)

Spencer Madan (1758–1836) was an English cleric, known as a translator of Hugo Grotius.

He was the eldest son of Spencer Madan, bishop of Peterborough, by his first wife, Lady Charlotte, second daughter of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Earl Cornwallis. He became a king's scholar at Westminster School in 1771, and was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1776. In 1778 he was created M.A.

Madan was curate of Wrotham, Kent (1782–3). He was presented in 1786 by his uncle James Cornwallis, the Bishop of Lichfield, to the prebend and vicarage of Tachbrook, Warwickshire; but soon exchanged the prebend for the rectory of , Leicestershire, which he held till his death. In 1787 he was given the rectory of St. Philip's, Birmingham, and resigned the Tachbrook vicarage. He succeeded his father in 1788 as chaplain in ordinary to the king. In 1790 he became canon residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral, in 1794 chancellor of the Diocese of Peterborough, and in 1800 prebendary of Peterborough Cathedral. While at Birmingham he promoted a subscription for the erection there of "a free church … for the use of the lower classes".

In 1809 Madan proceeded D.D. at Cambridge, and on resigning St. Philip's in the same year through ill-health was presented to the living of Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire, which he held till 1824. In October 1833 he was attacked with paralysis, from which he only partially recovered.

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