Modern English biography

MAYO, RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, 6 Earl of (1 son of 5 earl of Mayo 1797–1867). _b._ Dublin 21 Feb. 1822; entered Trin. coll. Dublin 1841 but did not reside; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1851, LL.D. 1852; known as Lord Naas 1849–67; M.P. Kildare 1847–52, M.P. Coleraine 1852–7, and M.P. Cockermouth 1857–68; chief sec. for Ireland, March to Dec. 1852, Feb. 1858 to June 1859, and with a seat in the cabinet July 1866 to Sep. 1868; P.C. 15 May 1852; master of Kildare hounds 1857; succeeded as 6 earl 12 Aug. 1867; founded Palmerston breeding association for improving breed of horses in Ireland; viceroy of India 27 Oct. 1868 to death, sworn in 12 Jany. 1869; K.P. 11 Nov. 1868; stabbed in the shoulder at Port Blair, Hopetown, Andaman islands, by a convict named Shere Ali, and expired in a short time 8 Feb. 1872. _bur._ in Johnstown churchyard near Naas, co. Mayo 25 April, bust in the crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral; author of St. Petersburgh and Moscow, a visit to the court of the Czar 2 vols. 1846; _m._ 31 Oct. 1848 Blanche Julia 4 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield, she was _b._ 21 Nov. 1826, the government awarded her an annuity of £1000 and gave £20,000 to her younger children. _W. W. Hunter’s Life of earl Mayo_ 2 _vols._ 1875; _Nolan’s Illust. history of India_, _iii_ 93 (1878), _portrait_; _Jas. Wilson’s Why was lord Mayo assassinated?_ (1872); _N. A. Chick’s In memoriam, of the assassination of the earl of Mayo_ (1872); _Baily’s Mag. xii_ 163–4 (1867), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xvi_ 429 (1850) _portrait_, _liii_ 569 (1868) _portrait_, _lx_ 151 _etc._ (1872) _portrait_, _lxviii_ 34, 37 (1876). MAYO, CHARLES (youngest son of Herbert Mayo 1720–1802, R. of St. George’s in the East, London). _b._ 24 March 1767; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch., probationary scholar St. John’s coll. Oxf. 1785; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1793, B.D. 1798; Rawlinson professor of Anglo-Saxon 1795–1800; Whitehall preacher 1799–1800; F.R.S. 1 March 1827; F.S.A.; morning preacher at St. Michael’s, Highgate 1803–33. _d._ Colesgroves, Cheshunt, Herts. 10 Dec. 1858. _G.M. vi_ 210 (1859). MAYO, CHARLES (3 son of James Mayo, R. of Avebury, Wilts.) _b._ Wimborne Minster, Dorset 29 Dec. 1788; M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1844; surgeon Winchester county hospital 1812–74; well known as a lithotomist; entertained at a public dinner 1851; mayor of Winchester; became blind 1874. _d._ St. Peter’s st. Winchester 27 Nov. 1876. _Medical times and gazette_, _ii_ 638–40 (1876) _and ii_ 373–4 (1877); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. viii_ 298 (1875). MAYO, ELIZABETH (sister of rev. Charles Mayo, educational reformer 1792–1846). _b._ 1793; lived with her brother at Cheam, Surrey, helping him in his school 1822–34; resided in Belsize lane, Hampstead 1834–53, and at Oak Hill, Hampstead 1853 to death; worked for the Home and Colonial school society from 1843 onwards; author of Lessons on objects 1837, 16 ed. 1859; Lessons on shells 1832, 3 ed. 1846; Model lessons for infant schools 1838, 4 ed. 1857; Religious instruction for young children 1845, 4 ed. 1858; Lessons on the miracles 1845. _d._ Malvern 1 Sep. 1865, memorial tablet in schoolroom of Home and Colonial school society’s buildings, Gray’s Inn road, London. _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 459. MAYO, HERBERT (3 son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). _b._ Queen Anne st. London 3 April 1796; pupil of sir Charles Bell 1812–15; entered Middlesex hospital 17 May 1814, house surgeon 1818, surgeon 1827–42; graduated D.M. at Leyden univ. 16 Sep. 1816; M.R.C.S. 1819, F.R.C.S. 1843; professor of anatomy and surgery 1828–30, lecturer on anatomy medical school, Great Windmill st. 1826; F.R.S. 17 April 1828, F.G.S. 1832; professor of anatomy King’s college, London 1830–6; professor of physiology and pathological anatomy 1836; founded the medical school at Middlesex hospital 1836, lecturer on surgery at the hospital 1837–43; physician in a hydropathic establishment at Boppart and afterwards at Bad Weilbach; author of Anatomical and physiological commentaries 1822–3; A course of dissections for students 1825; Outlines of human physiology 1827, 4 ed. 1837; Management of the organs of digestion 1837; The philosophy of living 1837; A treatise on syphilis 1840; Letters on the truths contained in popular superstitions 1849, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Bad Weilbach near Mayence 15 May 1852. _History of Mayo family_ (1882); _F. E. Baines’s Records of Hampstead_ (1890) 458; _Georgian Era_, _ii_ 587 (1833). MAYO, THOMAS (eld. son of John Mayo, physician 1761–1818). _b._ London 24 Jany. 1790; ed. at Westminster sch. and Oriel coll. Oxf., fellow 1813 to 1818; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, M.B. 1815, M.D. 1818; physician at Tunbridge Wells 1818–35, at 56 Wimpole st. London 1835–62; F.R.C.P. 1819, censor 1835, 1839 and 1850, an elect 1847, president 5 Jany. 1857 to Jany. 1862, delivered Lumleian lectures 1839 and 1842, Harveian oration 1841 and Croonian lectures 1853; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; phys. to Marylebone infirmary 1841; phys. in ordinary to duke of Sussex; author of An essay on the influence of temperament in modifying dyspepsia 1831; Elements of the pathology of the human mind 1838; Clinical facts and reflections 1847; Medical testimony in cases of lunacy 1854, with supplement 1856. _d._ Corsham house, Wiltshire 13 Jany. 1871. _W. Munk’s Goldheaded Cane_ (1884) _pp._ 220–40; _W. Munk’s College of physicians_, _iii_ 200 (1838). MAYOR, WILLIAM. _b._ 1826; ed. at Hatfield hall, Durham, Barry scholar, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; C. of St. Nicholas, Durham 1855–7; V. of Thornley, Durham 1862–90, where he devoted himself to the colliers and arbitrated successfully in a strike; V. of Shotton, Durham 1890 to death; chairman of Castle Eden petty sessions. _d._ at residence of his nephew, the Principal’s house, St. Mark’s College, Chelsea 8 Nov. 1892. _Guardian 16 Nov. 1892 p._ 1766. MAYOW, GEORGE WYNELL. _b._ 31 Aug. 1808; ensign in the army on h.p. 9 June 1825; captain 4 dragoon guards 6 March 1835, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1847; brigade major to light cavalry brigade in the Crimea to 19 Dec. 1854, A.Q.M.G. of cavalry division 20 Dec. 1854 to end of the war; deputy quartermaster general in Ireland 1 Jany. 1868 to July 1872; M.G. 6 March 1868; C.B. 13 March