Modern English biography

_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii_ 180 (1883). MAY, SIR STEPHEN. _b._ 1781; M.P. Belfast 1812–18; knighted by earl Whitworth at Dublin 1816; claimed to be a baronet of Ireland. _d._ Belfast 1851. MAY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE, 1 Baron Farnborough. _b._ London 8 Feb. 1815; private pupil of Dr. Brereton at Bedford gr. sch. 1826–31; assistant librarian of house of commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 Nov. 1873 to death; examiner of petitions for private bills 1846; taxing master for both houses of parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of house of commons 1856, clerk of house of commons 3 Feb. 1871 to April 1886; C.B. 16 May 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; a comr. on digest of the law 22 Nov. 1866; president of Statute law revision committee 1866–84; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 17 June 1874; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of A practical treatise on the law privileges, proceedings and usage of parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883, translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese; The constitutional history of England since the accession of George III. 2 vols. 1861–3, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1871; Democracy in Europe, a history 2 vols. 1877, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, _d._ Westminster Palace 17 May 1886. _bur._ Chippenham churchyard, Cambs. 24 May, memorial window in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster, his bust by Bruce Joy unveiled by the speaker in house of commons 6 March 1890. _Biograph_, _Jany. 1882 pp._ 14–19; _New monthly mag. cxvi_ 1110, 1175 (1879), _portrait_; _Pump Court_, _iii_ 105, 156, _portrait_. NOTE.--His peerage of Farnborough existed only six days, probably the shortest duration of any peerage; the barony of Marjoribanks lasted 7 days 12 to 19 June 1873. MAYALL, JOHN EDWIN. Artist at 433 Strand, London 1848–52; photographer at 224 Regent st. 1852 to death; had been paid in 1870 upwards of £35,000 by Marion and Co. of Soho square for cartes de visite of the royal family, _d._ 1867. MAYD, WILLIAM (2 son of rev. Wm. Mayd, R. of Withersfield, Suffolk). _b._ 1830; ed. at Eton, matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 18 May 1848; barrister I.T. 9 June 1854; a revising barrister to death; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 1877 to death, _d._ Willow Bank, Withersfield, Suffolk 15 Dec. 1892. MAYER, JOSEPH. _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs. 1803; gold and silversmith and jeweller at 68 and 70 Lord st. Liverpool; sold his collection of ancient Greek coins to French government 1844; purchased Rev. Dr. Thomas Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett’s Collection of Saxon antiquities and presented it to city of Liverpool; exhibited his collection of arts and antiquities valued at £80,000 in Colquitt st. Liverpool, he presented it to the corporation of Liverpool 1867; gave a free library and 20,000 volumes to Bebington, Cheshire, with a garden surrounding the building 1866; city of Liverpool erected a statue to him by Fontana in St. George’s hall; with Thomas Spencer he introduced for domestic use the electroplating process; gave many authors pecuniary assistance; raised three companies of volunteers; F.S.A. 10 Jany. 1850; retired from business; author of A catalogue of the drawings, miniatures, cameos, etc., illustrative of the Bonaparte family in the collection of J. Mayer 1854, 2 ed. 1855; History of art of pottery in Liverpool 1855; A library of national antiquities 2 vols. 1857–73; A catalogue of engraved gems and rings in the collection of J. Mayer 1879. _d._ Bebington 18 Jany. 1886. _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 67–76, _ii_ 109–10, 300, _iii_ 68, 70 (1883–91); _Illust. Times 10 June 1867 p._ 365, _view of his collection at Liverpool_; _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. May 1886 p._ 144; _Times 21 Jany. 1886 p._ 7. MAYER, KARL. Librarian to Prince Consort in England 1847–61. _d._ Berlin, Dec. 1884. MAYER, SAMUEL RALPH TOWNSHEND (2 son of Samuel Mayer of Gloucester, solicitor). _b._ Gloucester, Aug. 1841; contributed to the Gloucester newspapers; came to London, where he founded the Free and open church association 1866, secretary till Feb. 1872; edited the first report of the Metropolitan conservative working men’s association 1868; edited The illustrated review Jany. to June 1871; The free and open church advocate 3 vols. 1872–7; proprietor and editor of St. James’s Magazine, Jany. 1875; author of Amy Fairfax 1859, a novelette; Fractional supplement to Hotson’s Ready reckoner 1861; The origin and growth of Sunday schools in England 1878; Who was the founder of Sunday schools? being an inquiry 1880. _d._ Richmond, Surrey 28 May 1880. MAYERS, JOHN POLLARD. Barrister M.T. 8 Nov. 1799, bencher 1840 to death; agent for island of Barbadoes. _d._ Brasted near Sevenoaks, Kent 30 Dec. 1853 aged 76. MAYERS, WILLIAM S. FREDERICK (son of Michael John Mayers, R. of St. Peter’s, Winchester). _b._ Tasmania 7 Jany. 1831; a journalist in New York to 1859; interpreter at Canton 7 Feb. 1859 to 1870; vice consul at Kin-kiang 17 Aug. 1871; Chinese secretary of legation at Pekin 10 Nov. 1871, second sec. to the legation 20 July 1876; his official report on The famine in the northern province of China was printed and his Report of an Expedition to Nang Chang Foo is in Parl. Papers vol. lxviii 213 (1874); F.R.G.S.; member of R. Asiatic soc.; procured for the British museum one of the few existing copies of the Imperial encyclopædia of Chinese literature in 5020 volumes; author of The Anglo-Chinese calendar manual 1869; The Chinese reader’s manual 1874; Treatise between China and foreign powers 1877; The Chinese government, a manual of Chinese titles 1878, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ of typhus fever, Shanghai 24 March 1878. _Journal Royal Asiatic Soc. vol. x_ (1878) _55th Annual Report 20 May 1878 pp. xii–xiv_; _Athenæum_, _i_ 444 (1878); _Academy_, _i_ 300 (1878); _Foreign Office List_ 1879 _p._ 214. MAYHEW, AUGUSTUS SEPTIMUS (youngest son of Joshua Dorset Joseph Mayhew of 26 Carey st. London, attorney who _d._ 1858). _b._ 1826; wrote for the Comic Almanac 1845–53, which he edited 1848–50; author of Paved with gold, or the romance and reality of the London streets 1857; The finest girl in Bloomsbury 1861; Faces for fortunes 3 vols. 1865; author with his brother Henry Mayhew of The greatest plague of life, or the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant 1847 and other books; joint author with H. S. Edwards of six dramatic pieces The poor relation 1851, My wife’s future husband 1851, A squib for the fifth of November 1851; The goose with the golden eggs, a farce, Strand theatre 1 Sep. 1859; Christmas Boxes, a farce, Strand 1860; and The four cousins, a comic drama, Globe, May 1871; resided at 7 Montpelier row, Twickenham. _d._ Richmond infirmary 25 Dec. 1875. _bur._ Barnes cemet. 30 Dec. _Hodder’s Memories of my time_ (1870) 62–5. MAYHEW, EDWARD (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–1875). _b._ 1813; M.R.C.S. 1854; edited F. Clater’s Every man his own cattle doctor 1853, another ed. 1859; F. Clater’s Every man his own farrier 1854, another ed. 1861; D. P. Blaine’s Outlines of the veterinary art 6 ed. 1854; author of Stage effect 1840; The horse’s mouth, shewing the age by the teeth 1849; Dogs, their management 1854; The illustrated horse doctor 1860, another ed. 1891; The illustrated horse management 1864; with G. Smith Make your wills, a farce Haymarket theatre 1836. Name not in Medical or London directories after 1855. _G. Hodder’s Memories of my time_ (1870) 58–61. MAYHEW, HENRY (brother of A. S. Mayhew 1826–75). _b._ London 25 Nov. 1812; admitted at Westminster school 14 Jany. 1822, ran away 1827 and went a voyage to Calcutta; articled to his father; published with G. A. à Beckett, Figaro in London, comic weekly paper, 160 numbers 1 Dec. 1831 to 27 Dec. 1834; started The Thief, weekly journal 26 numbers 1832, and The Devil in London, weekly journal 1832; manager of the Fitzroy theatre 1834, where he established the “No Fee” system, being the first manager to do so; wrote The wandering minstrel, farce produced at Royal Fitzroy theatre 16 Jany. 1834, in which occurs the cockney song Villikins and his Dinah; wrote with Henry Baylis But However, a farce produced at Haymarket 30 Oct. 1838; a founder of Punch 17 July 1841 and owner with Mark Lemon of a third share in it; author of The Rhine 1856, The Upper Rhine 1858, German life and manners in Saxony 1864, The boyhood of Martin Luther 1865 and many other books; author with John Binny and others of London labour and London poor 2 vols. 1851, reprinted from the Morning Chronicle, the continuation in serial monthly parts The great world of London 1856 was completed and published as The criminal prisons of London 1862. d. Charlotte st. Bloomsbury, London 25 July 1887. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _Fox Bourne’s English newspapers_, _ii_ 117–20, 155, 238; _F. H. Forshall’s Westminster School_ (1884) 329–30; _The Mask_ (1868) 65, _portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 348 (1845), _portrait_. NOTE.--There is a portrait of him in John Leech’s 2-page cartoon called Mr. Punch’s fancy ball 9 Jany. 1847 as the cornet player in the orchestra. On 19 March 1856 he held a meeting of ticket of leave men at National hall, Holborn, the speeches of five of them were fully reported in the newspapers. MAYHEW, HORACE (brother of the preceding). _b._ July 1818; wrote many farces and tales; sub-editor of Punch under Mark Lemon several years, contributed to Punch to his death; contributed to Cruikshank’s Table Book 1845; his pantomime Plum Pudding produced at Olympic theatre, Dec. 1847; author of The Bal Masqué. By Count Chicard 1848; Change for a shilling 1848; Model men 1848; Model women 1848; A plate of heads 1849; The toothache imagined by Horace Mayhew and realised by George Cruikshank 1849; Guy Faux 1849; Letters left at the pastry-cooks 1853; edited Cruikshank’s Comic Almanac 1848 and 1849; contributed to Lloyd’s Weekly News from 1852. _d._ 33 Addison gardens south, Kensington, London 30 April 1872. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 7 May. _J. Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 19. MAYHEW, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ 1810; student of Lincoln’s inn; started The poor man’s guardian 1847, eight numbers; started The national library; author of A complete history of an action at law 1828; with J. F. A. Bayard and P. Duport wrote Ambition, or Marie Mignot, a drama Haymarket theatre 13 Sep. 1830. MAYHEW, WILLIAM. _b._ 1787; wines and spirit merchant, 106 Fenchurch st. London; M.P. Colchester 12 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Colchester 1830 and 1832. _d._ at residence of Edward Mayhew surgeon, 7 Park terrace, Victoria park, London 26 April 1855. MAYNARD, AMBROSE, stage name of William Hill. _b._ 1822; an actor; a comic vocalist at the London and provincial music halls; musical agent Westminster bridge road, London 1857, removed to 6 York road, Lambeth 1864; the oldest musical agent in Great Britain; the writer of the following dramatic pieces, Chickweed and groundsel; Drury lane and Park lane, also known as Extremes of life; Change for a sovereign; The Queen’s birthday; Winkle’s Waxwork; The two shes, a sketch at the South London palace 1888. _d._ 6 York road 3 Oct. 1888. _bur._ Nunhead cemetery 6 Oct. MAYNARD, FREDERICK W. Secretary to Arundel society, London 1867 to death; author of A descriptive sketch of Arundel Society. _d._ 27 Aug. 1876. MAYNARD, GEORGE. _b._ at sea between Liverpool and Dublin 4 Feb. 1812; articled to a solicitor; clerk to John Chappell, theatrical bookseller, Royal Exchange, city of London; acted at Wilmington sq. Rawstone st. and Catherine st. London; appeared at Deptford as Launcelot Gobbo in Merchant of Venice, Easter Monday 1828; at Richmond theatre 1830–1; played at the Pavilion 1839, where he was a favourite in sailors’ characters; one of Penley’s company during his short 9 nights’ season at Lyceum, April 1839; played Guy Fawkes at the Lyceum 1841; acted at T.R. Edinburgh 1845–6; a favourite at the Olympic under George Bolton 1846–7; played leading parts at Adelphi and Surrey; a good melodramatic actor. _d._ Newcastle 14 Dec. 1851. _Theatrical times_, _ii_ 105 (1847), _portrait_. MAYNARD, JOSEPH (only son of Joseph Cam Maynard, solicitor). _b._ London 29 May 1798; solicitor in city of London 1820–70; under-sheriff of London 1838; member of council of Incorporated law society 13 June 1849, vice pres. 1860–1, pres. 1861–2, retired from the council 1870. _d._ 52 Westbourne terrace, London 9 Jany. 1888. MAYNARD, SAMUEL. _b._ 1790; came from Taunton to London and opened a school in Clarendon sq. Somer’s Town 1810; mathematical bookseller at Earl’s court, Leicester square, London about 1832–62, published 14 catalogues; his books sold by auction in 1200 bundles 1862; author of A commercial perpetual almanac 1846; A table containing useful factors often used in calculation 1846; compiled A key to Mr. Keith’s Complete measurer 1829; A key to Bonnycastle’s Scholar’s guide to arithmetic 1853, and edited 13 other works on mathematics 1829–56. _d._ Booksellers’ Provident retreat, Abbot’s Langley, Herts. 7 May 1866. _The Athenæum 25 Aug. 1866 p._ 248. MAYNE, HENRY BLAIR (2 son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, _d._ 1841). _b._ 23 Aug. 1813; ed. Westminster 1826–31 and at Christ Church, Oxf., student 1831–46; B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838; barrister M.T. 21 Nov. 1845; principal clerk of private bills in house of commons at £1000 a year 1859–70; one of the three best whist players of his day; an habitué of the Arlington and Turf clubs; one of the committee of seven at the Arlington who drew up The laws of whist 1864; author of Sons of Indian officers. Sandhurst and Woolwich 1860; resided at 2 St. James’ place, St. James’ st. London. _d._ Brighton 17 Jany. 1892. NOTE. He always played for pound points and made it a rule not to play again at the same sitting after he had lost two rubbers running. One of his sayings was ‘He who leads trumps oftenest, he oftenest will win the most rubbers.’ MAYNE, HENRY OTWAY. Lieut. 6 Madras light cavalry 17 Sep. 1841, captain 31 Dec. 1855 to death; raised the corps of Mayne’s horse, which became first regiment central India horse. _d._ Allahabad 2 Nov. 1861. MAYNE, SIR RICHARD (4 son of Edward Mayne, judge of court of King’s Bench, Ireland). _b._ Dublin 27 Nov. 1796; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818; proceeded to Trin. coll. Cambridge, B.A. Camb. 1818, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 9 Feb. 1822; joint comr. with Charles Rowan of metropolitan police 29 Sep. 1829, chief comr. 1850 to death; illtreated by the mob during Hyde park riots July 1866; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1851. _d._ 80 Chester sq. London 26 Dec. 1868. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 30 Dec, where memorial monument was unveiled 25 Jany.