He became a king's scholar at Westminster School in 1771, and was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1776.
at Cambridge, and on resigning St. Philip's in the same year through ill-health was presented to the living of Thorpe Constantine, Staffordshire, which he held till 1824.
[1] Madan died on 9 October 1836 at Ibstock, aged 78, and was buried in a family vault at Thorpe.
[1] In 1782 Madan's poem The Call of the Gentiles (Cambridge, 1782) won the Seatonian prize.
[1] Madan married in 1791 Henrietta, daughter of William Inge of Thorpe Constantine, and had eleven children.