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===[[name::John]] [[name::MAUD]] d.[[date of death::1731]]===

====Biographical Note====

Son of [[family::Gamaliel Maud]], weaver, of [[location::London]]. He claimed freedom of the Weaver's Company by patrimony in 1711, and in his will, dated 1723 and proved in 1731,  he is styled ‘Citizen and [[occupation::weaver|Weaver]] of London’.  Notices in the London press of his death in March 1731 describe him as a ‘an eminent [[occupation::apothecary|Chymist]]’, with premises in Aldersgate Street, [[location::London]]. The business of drug and chemical manufacturing at these premises was continued by at least two later generations of Mauds. 
====Books====

He had an engraved armorial bookplate (‘Johan. Maud. Philochim. ad insig. Clav. Aurat vulgo vocato Aldersgate Street, Lond.’): Franks 20018.

There is no mention of books in his will, and the content and disposition of his library are not established. 
====Sources====
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*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D635442, Will of John Maud, The National Archives, PROB 11/643/332].
*''Daily Post Boy'', 29 March 1731.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903-4.
*[https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Whiffen_and_Sons:_Fisons_Booklet ''Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History'']
*Richmond, L., J. Stevenson and A. Turton. ''The Pharmaceutical Industry: A Guide to Historical Records''. Aldershot, 2003.
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