[2] He was educated at Leeds Grammar School[2] and Exeter College, Oxford where he graduated Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in 1871 and Master (M.A.)
Maude was one of four priests (the others being Fathers Borton, Balfour and Tobias) brought by Bishop Allan Becher Webb to the Diocese of Bloemfontein in 1876.
His wife described a calamity which occurred as it neared completion: "Our new church which we were all looking forward to moving into for our Christmas services, and that seemed to be getting on so nicely, was blown over by a whirlwind and is lying a pitiable heap of ruins…it happened one Sunday morning.
Our people were having services in the Odd Fellows’ Hall stifling under the heat of an unlined iron building when the crash came.
"[10] The situation was however salvaged and on Low Sunday 1880 Bishop Webb of Bloemfontein dedicated the "re-erected 'church-like' church" and instituted C.B.
During his incumbency at St Chad's the church was fitted with electric light and a new organ, and new parish schools were built.
[14] Maude married, at Bloemfontein Anglican Cathedral,[14] in January 1878, Geraldine, daughter of Alexander Donovan, of Framfield Place, Sussex, England.
He died at home aged 79 after a long illness,[14] and was buried at Shrewsbury General Cemetery on 14 May 1927 after a funeral service in St Laurence's Church, Ludlow.