Charles Maturin
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Descended from the Huguenots who found shelter in Ireland, one of whom was Gabriel Jacques Maturin who later became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin after Jonathan Swift in 1745, Charles Robert Maturin was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College, Dublin. Shortly after being ordained as curate of Loughrea, County Galway, in 1803, he became Anglican Curate of St. Peter's Church in Dublin. He lived in York St, Dublin with his father William, a Post Office official, and his mother, Fedelia Watson, and met and married on the 7th October 1804 acclaimed singer Henrietta Kingsbury, a sister of Sarah Kingsbury who married Charles Elgee, whose daughter, Jane Francesca Wilde (née Elgee), was the mother of Oscar Wilde. Thus Charles Maturin was Oscar Wilde's great-uncle by marriage. Wilde discarded his own name and adopted the name of Maturin's novel Melmoth the Wanderer when he arrived in Dieppe, France, and lived out his remaining days known as 'Sebastian Melmoth'.
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| The 1911 Encyclopedia The 1911 Encyclopedia 83.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MATURIN_CHARLES_ROBERT.htm - Web |
| University of Adelaide on Melmoth University of Adelaide on Melmoth etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/maturin/charles/melmoth/ - Web |
| Maturin Biopic Maturin Biopic www.ireland-now.com/authors/maturin.html - Web |
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