Thomas Maude (estate manager)

Thomas Maude (1718–1798) was a British physician, estate steward, and minor poet and essayist.

[3][4][b] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) specifies Downing Street as his birthplace, noting that Maude retained ownership of his family property there, using it as a base when in London.

[d] He was buried in Wensley churchyard; lines from Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village are engraved on his tomb.

[5] Maude's accomplishments were, according to the DNB, inconsiderable, but he was esteemed for his love of ‘letters and of man.’ His verses are mainly descriptive of the Yorkshire dales.

[1] Maude's works are:[1] In yonder fields, near Harewood's splendid dome, Where pleasure dwells and freedom feels at home, Where ease and elegance their charms combine, And sister arts in happy union twine, I sportive ranged; there sipped parental dew, When first life's coinage current-value knew,