Roll of Honor
Incident
At 4:00am, on the morning of 19th February 1873, a fellow police constable found PC Maguire lying unconscious on the footpath on Great Howard Street, Liverpool.
He was taken to Rose Hill Bridewell police station where he was placed in a cell after being considered to have fallen as a result of being drunk.
Shortly before noon, however, medical aid was requested and it was established that he was not drunk but unconscious and he was taken to the Royal Infirmary where it was discovered he was suffering from concussion of the brain, probably caused by violence as there were several bruises on his head and indentations on his face and neck.
Despite every effort to save him, Mathias died at 3:30pm that same day.
He had joined the force about eighteen months earlier having left his home in County Cavan, Ireland.
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153 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Police Constable Maguire served with the Liverpool City Police.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Constable Mathias Maguire is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In ENG, 1,349 of 2,827 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 47.7% of this state's fallen. That is 16.7 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Liverpool City Police, 27 of 54 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 50% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Mathias Maguire's cause is highlighted.
How Mathias Maguire Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Mathias Maguire is highlighted in Feb.
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