Maidstone, county town of Kent, on the Medway, 30 m. SE. of London; has several fine old churches and historical buildings, a grammar school and a school of art and music, numerous paper-mills, and breweries, and does a large trade in hops; Woollett the engraver and Hazlitt the essayist were born here.
Population (circa 1900) given as 32,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maidment, James * Maimon, Solomon