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Harry Maude: Unimane, statesman and Pacific historian

When the Journal’s co-founder J.W. (Jim) Davidson died in April 1973, it was his senior colleague Harry Maude who gave the eulogy in which, in true civil service fashion, he subsumed his own contributions to the discipline of Pacific history in giving all the praise to his former Head of Department. The death of Harry Maude in Canberra on 4 November 2006 provides an opportunity to record his contribution and so adjust the balance. Harry Maude, officially Henry Evans Maude, O.B.E., former colonial administrator and Pacific historian, was born at Bankipore, Bihar, India on 1 October 1906, son of (Sir) Walter Maude, afterwards President of the Bihar and Orissa Provincial Legislature, and his wife Carrie Atkinson. The Maudes were a branch of an ancient landed family in Yorkshire that came into prominence following the English Civil War. A cadet branch took advantage of the Cromwellian settlement in Ireland, sold their Yorkshire estates, flourished in Ireland, acquired several peerages and were celebrated as the ‘military Maudes’. The family history has particular relevance, since as well as a tradition of administration and service there was a measure of family pressure on younger sons to succeed on their own merits. Harry, who belonged to an older line, was the youngest child of an eighth son. Harry’s background also helps to explain some of his interests. Harry had a double descent from the Maudes of Burley, his direct ancestor being a younger son, John Maude, an officer in Cromwell’s army at Marston Moor. This family were navy agents and bankers and were the ‘naval Maudes’. Harry’s great grandfather was a Rear Admiral of the Blue. Through the Rear Admiral’s wife, Anne Hallett, he was related to Thomas Hallett, the midshipman of the Bounty whom Harry liked to relate ‘was asleep on an armschest while the plot for mutiny was being hatched’. This story possibly began Harry’s lifelong fascination with the Bounty story even before his own ‘love affair’ with the Pacific. One imagines, too, that his uncle’s library at Leylands, Crowborough