Background
Geoffrey Spencer Madan was born on 6 February 1895, in Oxford - the son of Falconer Madan, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and Bodley"s Librarian, by Frances Jane Hayter.
Geoffrey Spencer Madan was born on 6 February 1895, in Oxford - the son of Falconer Madan, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford and Bodley"s Librarian, by Frances Jane Hayter.
Balliol College; Eton College.
He had a sister. Madan went up to Balliol College in 1913. In 1914 Madan’s university career was interrupted by the First World War. He was commissioned in the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, and was wounded in the Mesopotamian campaign in 1916.
In 1919 Madan married Marjorie, the daughter of Sir Saxon Noble, Baronet.
Between 1920 and 1924 Madan was employed in the City of London. But in 1924 a severe attack of meningitis forced him to retire.
A private income enabled him to devote the remainder of his life to his interests, which included wine, old silver and (above all) books Madan"s daughter Nicola married Gordon Campbell, later Lord Campbell of Croy.
Madan died suddenly in London on 6 July 1947.