Life
?1755-1835; b. nr. Kildare; served in Light Dragoons, travelled in Spain
and Morocco, 1784, and published Travels in Africa and Europe (1816)
[var. Europe and Africa DIW]; good translation of Diaz’s True
History of the Conquest of Mexico (1800). DNB DIW
Notes
Dictionary of National Biography lists Maurice Bagenal, d. 1835;
soldier and author; commissioned 3rd dragoons 1778 as cornet, Major 22nd
Light Dragoons in 1782; half-pay officer in 1783; MP for Kildare in 1790
and 1801; In 1784, he accompanied Consul-gen. George Payne on a journey
producing Travels in Europe and Africa (1816); reissued as Travels
through France and Spain, and Morocco (1817); Eidometia, or Optic
Mensuration (1812); translated The True History of the Conquest
of Mexico, from Spanish of Bernal Diaz de Castillo (1800), praised
by Southey.
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