Richard Robert Madden (22 August 1798 – 5 February 1886) was an Irish doctor, writer, abolitionist and historian of the United Irishmen.

[2] Madden attended private schools and was found a medical apprenticeship in Athboy, County Meath.

Madden found that London-based merchants (including Whig MP Matthew Forster) were actively helping the slave traders, and that crudely disguised forms of slavery existed in all the coast settlements (he particularly condemned the actions of George Maclean, the Governor of Cape Coast Castle).

[5] After receiving news of their oldest son's death back in Ireland, he and Harriet returned to Dublin in 1849.

[7] Madden died at his home in Booterstown, just south of Dublin city, in 1886 and is interred in Donnybrook Cemetery.

),[9] which contains numerous details on the Irish Rebellion of 1798, including testimonies collected from veteran rebels and from family members of deceased United Irishmen.

Born in Marylebone in 1801 and baptised there into the Church of England,[14] she was the child of John Elmslie (1739–1822), a Scot who owned hundreds of slaves on his plantations in Jamaica,[3] and his wife Jane Wallace (1760 – 1801).