Arthur Cornwallis Madan

Arthur Cornwallis Madan (1846–1917) alikuwa mwanaisimu na mmisionari Mwanglikana anayejulikana hasa kwa utafiti wake wa lugha za Kiafrika na hasa kamusi za Kiswahili.
Familia na elimu
Alizaliwa 8 Machi 1846 kwenye kijiji cha Cam, Gloucestershire, Uingereza akiwa mwana wa tatu wa mchungaji Mwanglikana George Madan. Alisoma kwenye shule ya sekondari ya Marlborough College, akaendelea kusoma kwenye Christ College ya Chuo Kikuu cha Oxford 1865-1869. 

Baada ya kutimiza shahada ya kwanza alifundisha Christ College 1870-1880; katika kipindi hiki alipokea pia shahada ya Uzamili. Alijiunga na Universities Mission to Central AfricaMadan katika "Visitation of England and Wales, Visitation of England and Wales by Howard, Joseph Jackson, 1827-1902; Crisp, Frederick Arthur, joint ed; England. College of Arms Publication date 1893 . 
Kazi katika Afrika
Mwaka 1880 alifika Zanzibar alipojifunza Kiswahili akashirikiana na askofu Edward Steere katika utafiti wa lugha na kazi ya kutafsiri. Steere alipoaga dunia kwenye Agosti 1882 Madan alichukua muswada wa marehemu wa masahihisho ya Sarufi ya Kiswahili akaimaliza hadi mwisho wa mwaka ("A handbook of the Swahili language as spoken at Zanzibar, edited for the Universities' Mission to Central Africa"). Alikuwa mtaalamu mkuu wa lugha wa shirika yake ya misioni katika Afrika ya MasharikiMusa W. Dube, Wafula R. S.: Postcoloniality, Translation, and the Bible in Africa, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017 , uk. 40, online hapa Akaendelea na kazi ya kamusi. Mwaka 1894 alitoa Kamusi ya Kiingereza-Kiswahili, iliyofuatwa na Kamusi ya Kiswahili-Kiingereza kwenye mwaka 1903. Mnamo 1906 alihamia Rhodesia ya Kaskazini (leo: Zambia) alipoendelea kufanya uchunguzi wa lugha za Kiafrika kama vile Kilenje na KiwisaA. C. Madan, M.A.; Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 17, No. 65 (Oct., 1917), pp. 83-84; Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society; online hapa; iliangaliwa 20-05-2019 01:03 UTC. Mnamo 1911 alirudi Oxford alipofundisha hadi kifo chake mwaka 1917 akiwa na umri wa miaka 72Madan A.C., kwenye tovuti ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN, Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum.  
Urithi wake
Anajulikana kwa kamusi zake za Kiingereza-Kiswahili na Kiswahili-Kiingereza (Madan 1902), pamoja na vitabu kuhusu Kiswahili. Kamusi zake zilikuwa msingi wa Kamusi za Standard English-Swahili Dictionary na Standard Swahili-English Dictionary zinazojulikana kwa jina la „Madan-Johnson“ zikitumiwa hadi karne ya 21A Standard English-Swahili Dictionary: (Founded on Madan's English-Swahili Dictionary) Oxford University Press, 1992,  ISBN-10: 0195720067, ISBN-13: 978-0195720068 online kwa Amazon.de.

Vitabu vyake
Kwa jina lake A. C. Madan
English-Swahili Dictionary, 1894, 1902² Clarendon Press online at archive.org

 Swahili-English dictionary, 1903 Oxford, Clarendon press online at archive.org

 Kiunangi or Story and History from Central Africa, Written by Boys in the Schools of the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Arthur Cornwallis Madan, G. Bell, London 1887,   online here

 Muhammadi, maisha yake: pamoja na habari za Waslimu na Maturuki ..,  Soc. for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1888 (in Swahili) online at google books 

 Lala-Lamba Handbook: A Short Introduction to the South-western Division of the Wisa-Lala dialect of Northern Rhodesis with stories and vocabulary, 1908 Clarendon press online at archive.org

 Wisa Handbook: A Short Introduction to the Wisa Dialect of North-East Rhodesia, 1906 Clarendon Press online at archive.org

 Lenje Handbook: A Short Introduction to the Lenje Dialect Spoken in North-west Rhodesia, 1908  Clarendon press    online at archive.org

 Senga Handbook: A Short Introduction to the Senga Dialect as Spoken on the Lower Luangwa, 1905 Clarendon press online at archive.org

 An outline dictionary intended as an aid in the study of the languages of the Bantu (African) and other uncivilized races, 1905 London : H. Frowde online at archive.org

 Living speech in Central and South Africa; an essay introductory to the Bantu family of languages, 1911, Oxford : Clarendon Press               online at archive.org

Alivyotunga pamoja na wengine
 A handbook of the Swahili language, as spoken at Zanzibar, by Steere, Edward, 1828–1882; Madan, A. C. (Arthur Cornwallis), b. 1846, ed, 1884 London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge online at archive.org

 A Grammar of the Bemba Language as Spoken in North-east Rhodesia, by Schoeffer, J. H. West Sheane, Arthur Cornwallis Madan, 1907 Clarendon press online at archive.org

Marejeo

Jamii:Wataalamu wa Uingereza
jamii:kamusi za Kiswahili