Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, surgeon, and colonial administrator. Alternative signature: R. R. Madden. Educated at a private school in Dublin. Acquainted with Lady Blessington, whom he met in Italy while he worked for the Morning Herald. Authored several works supporting the abolition of slavery, including Address on Slavery in Cuba, Presented to the General Anti-Slavery Convention (1840). Appointed colonial secretary of Western Australia in 1847. Member of the Royal Irish Academy and the Society of Medical Science. Married Harriet Elmslie in 1828. Biographical information: ODNB. (SP)