Career
In 1850 his assistant William Edward Beddome was convicted of embezzling £4,000, which could only have happened because of lax security on Maturin"s part. In 1857 the Commissariat Department was abolished, and on 1 June 1857 Maturin was relieved by Mr. Deputy Commissioner Monk, and retired on half-pay.
He returned to England and was appointed to the Commissariat Department, also to a seat on the London directorate of the Bank of South Australia.
In November 1857 he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the newly formed Adelaide Waterworks Commission. He successfully stood for Light in the South Australian House of Assembly and in July 1858 he resigned his Commission, to be replaced by G. M. Waterhouse.
Before he could take his seat however, he was appointed Land Titles Commissioner and resigned from Parliament, taking effect in September 1858. He accepted a position in London as Deputy Commissary General with a seat on the London board of the Bank of South Australia and left the State in February 1859.
In 1863 he was transferred to Hong Kong, then Aldershot in 1865.
He was appointed head of the Control Department in Ireland then in 1871 Director of Supplies and Transports in the War Department following the retirement of Sir William Tyrone Powers Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. (since 1819)
He was appointed Companion of the Bath sometime around 1870. William MacCarthy Maturin (13 October 1850 – 1932) married Mary Frederica Maria Beaumont (1863–1906) on 26 September 1899
Charles Edward Maturin (8 February 1855 – )
Desmond Clibborn Maturin (15 July 1858 – )
Norman Hugh Dutton Maturin (1 December 1862 – )
Maturin Street in Glenelg is close to where he resided. In 1847 he was appointed second clerk in the Audit Office.
In 1853 his appointment as second Inspector of Police created such controversy that he resigned, to be replaced by George Hamilton of the Bullion Office, and he was made clerk in the Bullion Office, replacing George Hamilton.
In June 1854 he became Bookkeeper of the Goolwa Railway, then in November 1854 he was appointed to the courts of Portuguese Elliot, Goolwa and Encounter Bay. In January 1855 he was charged with the 1854 theft of a gold ingot valued at £57 belonging to Frederick Burt while at the Bullion Office.
He pleaded guilty, explaining he had diverted the ingot to cover for a discrepancy. Despite character references from a number of influential people, he was sentenced to a year"s imprisonment.
As often happens with notables who fall from grace, further references to him in the news media are hard to find.
One report has him released after seven months and moving interstate under the assumed name of Collison.
