Berkeley had brutally assaulted magazine publisher James Fraser over a review William Maginn wrote of Berkeley's novel Berkeley Castle, and Maginn had called him out.
Bishop Maginn is named after the former Auxiliary Bishop of Albany Edward Joseph Maginn.
Maginn himself gradually withdrew from the Association and concentrated his energy on Ulster Institute for the Deaf.
In 2001, Maginn married Chai Ling, one of the student leaders in the Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989 and the founder of All Girls Allowed, a humanitarian organization that aims to stop the human rights violations related to China's One-Child Policy.