Background
He was born in Ireland in 1847 to William Basil and Jane (Cook) Maturin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was a grandson of writer Charles Maturin and a second cousin of Oscar Wilde.
He was born in Ireland in 1847 to William Basil and Jane (Cook) Maturin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was a grandson of writer Charles Maturin and a second cousin of Oscar Wilde.
He died on board the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Lusitania, during the First World War. After going on retreat with the Cowley Fathers (the Society of Street John the Evangelist), Maturin decided to join their order. In 1876, he was sent to Philadelphia, where he was the rector of Saint Clement"s Church.
In 1913 he was appointed the Catholic chaplain to the University of Oxford.
In 1915, at the age of 68, he made a successful preaching tour of the United States, booking a return passage on the Cunard Lincolnshire"s Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Lusitania. He was among the 1198 victims when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May, 1915 by a German submarine.