Madan, Spencer

Madan, Spencer (1), D.D., an Anglican prelate, was born about the middle of the 18th century; became bishop of Bristol in 1792, and of Peterborough in 1794. He died in 1813. Bishop Madan published several occasional Sermons (London, 1792, 8vo, and often), and a translation of Grotius's De Veritate Christianae Religionis (1781-83,1813). See Gentleman's Magazine, 1837, 1:206.