1803 or 1804; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829,
B.D. 1837, D.D. 1840; chaplain of New coll. 1828–59; C. of
Kennington, Berkshire 1829–54; chaplain of All Souls’ coll.
1837–58; V. of Yarnton near Oxford 1858 to death; author of
Popery in Oxford 1832, a tract; Popery of Oxford confronted,
repudiated and disavowed 1837, a pamphlet; Key to the Popery of
Oxford 1838; Postscript to the Popery of Oxford 1851; composer
of An evening service in E; With angels and archangels; Choral
harmony, a collection of tunes 1854, Supplement 1858; Tunes
in four parts for congregational worship 1855. _d._ Yarnton
vicarage 30 March 1878.
MAVOR, JOHN (son of Wm. Fordyce Mavor, LL.D., R. of Woodstock,
author of the Spelling book 1758–1837). _b._ 1785; ed. at Wadham
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816; fellow of Lincoln
coll. to 1826, sub-rector 1822, Greek lecturer 1823, claviger
1824; P.C. of Forest hill, Oxon. 1823–48; R. of Hadleigh, Essex
9 Aug. 1825 to death, his living was sequestered about 1843;
confined for debt in Oxford county gaol 1843 or 1844 to death.
_d._ in his cell in county gaol Oxford 19 June 1853.
MAXFIELD, TOM. _b._ Sheffield 16 June 1819; on the Bath road
near Slough ran 20 miles in 1 hour 58 minutes 16 May 1845 in
presence of an immense assemblage; ran 20 miles at Arlington
corner near Hounslow in 1 hour 59 minutes; was known as The
North Star; ran upwards of 50 races against The Welshman, Byrne,
The wonder of the north and Jackson, and with one exception was
the winner; a coalheaver at Windsor to death; fell into great
poverty; _found dead_ in his bed Bier lane, Windsor 28 Nov.
1864, verdict death from natural causes.
MAXSE, SIR HENRY FITZ-HARDINGE BERKELEY (son of James Maxse of
Effingham hall, Surrey, _d._ 1864). _b._ 1832; ensign grenadier
guards 1 June 1849; lieut. coldstream guards 19 Jany. 1855,
placed on h.p. as major 16 March 1858; aide de camp to lord
Cardigan in Crimean war 1855; wounded at battle of Balaklava;
lieut.-col. in the army 6 July 1863, sold out 22 Dec. 1863;
lieut. governor of Heligoland 1863, governor Feb. 1864 to 6 July
1881, the reformed constitution was established 1868 and the
gaming tables abolished 1870; governor of Newfoundland 6 July
1881 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1874, K.C.M.G. 1 May 1877; author
of Beschwerdeschrift der Heligolander Bürgerschaft wider den
Gouverneur Maxse 1866. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Sep.
1883. _I.L.N. lxxxiii_ 333 (1885), _portrait_.
MAXSE, JAMES (son of John Maxse of Brislington, Somerset).
_b._ 1792; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 5 Dec. 1809; one of
the four masters of the Quorn foxhounds known as the Quorn
quadrilateral, Moore, Maxse, Maher and Musgrave; gave up
hunting, being very heavy 1834; ‘Maxse on Cognac’ a celebrated
hunter is immortalized in a song by Campbell of Saddell; owner
of well-known yacht Sabrina. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London
3 March 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 23 April 1864.
_Sporting Review_, _li_ 272 (1864).
MAXWELL, ACHESON. _b._ 1760; held various confidential
employments under earl of Macartney at Madras, in embassy to
China and in Cape of Good Hope, went with him on a confidential
mission to Louis XVIII. at Verona 1795; auditor of public
accounts some years, retired on a pension. _d._ 8 Upper Belgrave
place, Pimlico, London 31 Dec. 1851.
MAXWELL, ALEXANDER (3 son of Wm. Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire). _b._ 7 March 1816; ensign 46 foot 19 June 1835,
lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 21 Feb. 1860; served in
the Crimea from Nov. 1854; col. 34 foot 9 April 1879 to death.;
general 19 April 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; knight of legion of
honour. _d._ 3 Southwell gardens, South Kensington 8 March 1889.
MAXWELL, CHARLES FRANCIS. Ensign 82 foot 28 July 1825,
lieut.-col. 27 Oct. 1848, sold out 1 Sep. 1854. _d._ 1873.
MAXWELL, EDWARD HERBERT (3 son of sir Wm. Maxwell, 5 baronet
1779–1838). _b._ 30 July 1822; ensign 88 foot 26 April 1839,
lieut.-col. 16 June 1857, placed on h.p. 19 June 1872; served in
the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; L.G. 11 Nov. 1878; C.B. 20
May 1871, granted service reward 5 Dec. 1871; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; author of Griffin
ahoy! A yacht cruise to the Levant 1882; With the Connaught
rangers in quarters, camp and on leave 1883. _d._ 21 Inverkeith
row, Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1885.
MAXWELL, GEORGE. Ensign 2 West India regiment 23 Feb. 1826;
lieut. 66 foot 22 Nov. 1833, lieut.-col. 14 Aug. 1857, retired
with hon. rank of M.G. 12 June 1863. _d._ Kilucleigh, Langholm,
Dumfriesshire 11 Nov. 1886.
MAXWELL, HENRY HAMILTON (son of rev. Peter Benson Maxwell of
Birdstown, Donegal). _b._ 3 March 1824; lieut. Bengal artillery
10 June 1842; D.A.Q.M.G. of artillery, army of Sutlej, Dec.
1845 to April 1846; served in Gwalior campaign 1843–4, Sutlej
campaign 1845–6 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. R.A. 20
Sep. 1865, col. 6 Oct. 1872; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; attached to sir Wm.
Peel’s naval brigade and was at relief of Lucknow and Cawnpore
1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; translated Taubert’s On the use of
field artillery on service 1856, and G. S. Marey Monge’s Memoir
on swords 1860; author of Arms and legs in Rome, a system for
providing the maimed poor with artificial limbs. Rome 1882. _d._
Rome 28 May 1892.
MAXWELL, JAMES. Ensign 34 foot 24 Sep. 1841, major 28 July 1857,
placed on h.p. 1 April 1866; served at Sebastopol 1854–5 and in
the Indian campaign 1857–8; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 17
Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 31 March 1874. _d._ on board the Africa
at sea on his way to England from Cape Coast Castle 14 April
1874.
MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (2 child and only son of John Clerk of
Edinburgh, advocate who took surname of Maxwell and _d._ 2
April 1856). _b._ 14 India st. Edinburgh 13 June 1831; ed. at
Edinburgh academy 1841–7 and univ. 1847–50; entered Peterhouse,
Cambridge Oct. 1850, migrated to Trinity coll. Dec. 1850,
scholar April 1852, fellow 1855, lecturer 1855, hon. fellow;
2 wrangler and bracketed with Routh as Smith’s prizeman 1854;
B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; wrote essays for the Select essay club
known as the Apostles 1853–56; professor of natural philosophy
at Marischal college, Aberdeen, April 1856 to 15 Sep. 1860;
professor of natural philosophy in King’s college, London
1860–5; delivered his first lecture at the royal institution
17 May 1861; professor of experimental physics in univ. of
Camb. 8 March 1871 to death, superintended building of physical
laboratory opened June 1874; member of council of senate of
the univ. Nov. 1876; pres. of Cambridge philosophical society
1876–77; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, Rumford medallist 1860; hon. LL.D.
Edinb. 1870, hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; his mathematical theory of
electricity was generally accepted by scientists, he did more
than any one to establish the Kinetic theory of gases; author of
On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings 1859; Theory
of heat 1870; Introductory lectures on experimental physics
1871; A treatise on electricity and magnetism 2 vols. 1873, 2
ed. 1881; The scientific papers of J. C. Maxwell 2 vols. 1890.
_d._ 11 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 5 Nov. 1879. _bur._ Parton
churchyard, Glenlair. _The life of J. C. Maxwell. By L. Campbell
and W. Garnett_ (1882), 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xxxiii_ 1–16 (1882); _Nature_, _xxiv_ 601 (1881), _portrait_.
MAXWELL, SIR JOHN, 8 Baronet (only son of sir John Maxwell,
7 baronet 1768–1844). _b._ Pollok, Renfrewshire 12 May 1791;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxford 26 Oct. 1809; M.P. Renfrewshire
1818–30; M.P. Lanarkshire 1832–7; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1829; author
of Suggestions on the present want of employment for labour and
capital 1852; True reform, or character a qualification for
franchise 1860. _d._ at the mansion house of Pollok 6 June 1865.
_Proc. of royal soc. of Edinb. v_ 477 (1866).
MAXWELL, JOHN BALFOUR (only son of sir Murray Maxwell, captain
R.N., C.B., _d._ 1831). _b._ 1799; entered navy 15 Nov. 1812;
commander of the Gannet 16 guns in the West Indies 1833–7;
captain 10 Jany. 1837; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._
Guernsey 31 Jany. 1874.
MAXWELL, JOHN HALL (eld. son of William Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire, _d._ 1847). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow, Feb. 1812;
called to Scottish bar 1835, retired 1845; secretary to
Highland and agricultural society of Scotland 1846, resigned
9 May 1866; greatly improved the annual shows; paid great
attention to collection of agricultural statistics; effected
many improvements on his estate at Dargavel; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856;
presented with one thousand guineas and a service of plate 17
Jany. 1866. _d._ Torr hall near Paisley 25 Aug. 1866, portrait
by Gourlay Steel in council chamber of Highland and agricultural
soc. _Saddle and Sirloin. By The Druid, Part North_ (1870) 3–6.
MAXWELL, SIR PETER BENSON (brother of Henry Hamilton Maxwell
1824–92). _b._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1817; ed. in Paris and at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; a comr.
to inquire into state of hospitals at Scutari 1854; recorder
of Penang, Straits of Malacca, Feb. 1856 to 1866; recorder
of Singapore 27 July 1866 to 1871; chief justice of Straits
Settlements 1867–71; employed in reorganizing judicial tribunals
of Egypt 1883–4; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856;
author of Whom shall we hang? The Sebastopol enquiry 1855; An
introduction to the duties of police magistrate in the Prince of
Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 1866; On the interpretation
of statutes 1875, 2 ed. 1883; Our Malay conquests 1878; author
with J. J. Lowndes and C. E. Pollock of Reports of cases in the
queen’s bench practice court 1850–1851, 2 vols. 1851–2; author
with J. J. Lowndes of Bail court cases 1852–1854, vol. 1 parts
1–5, 1852–4. _d._ Grasse, Alpes Maritimes 14 Jany. 1893.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM (son of Alexander Maxwell of 21 Bell yard,
Fleet st. London, law publisher, who _d._ 1850). _b._ 1817 or
1818; law publisher at 21 Bell yard 1850 to death; published
Davidson’s Precedents and forms in conveyancing, and other
important legal works. _d._ Temple Sheen, Mortlake 28 May 1882.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM JOHN LEIGH. _b._ Dublin 24 May 1838; entered
office of sir John Macneill at Dundalk 1861; resident engineer
Portadown Junction railway works; made surveys of Euphrates
valley railway 1870; engineer of Beyrout water works 1871;
A.I.C.E. 1877; author of Letters of an engineer while on service
in Syria in connection with the proposed Euphrates Valley
railway and the Beyrout water works 1880, with portrait. _d._ on
voyage from Naples to England 22 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at sea.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM ROBERT (1 son of Hamilton Maxwell of Shrub hill
house, Mid Lothian). 2 lieut. R. Marines 11 July 1832; served
in China 1841; adjutant at Woolwich 1842–8; lieut.-col. R.M. 11
Aug. 1859, col. commandant 13 June 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877;
placed on retired list 13 April 1879; lived at Dover for many
years. _d._ Brighton 21 March 1892.
MAY, ALICE. _b._ 1847; appeared as Marie in the Daughter of the
regiment, at Melbourne in 1872; with her own operatic company
toured in Australia, New Zealand and India; played in the Grand
Duchess of Gerolstein at Liverpool; acted at the Gaiety and
Opera Comique theatres, London; played Jeanne in Lacome and
Reece’s comic opera Jeanne Jeannette and Jeanneton at Alhambra
28 March 1881; _m._ Louis Raymond. _d._ 16 Aug. 1887. _Illust.
sporting and dramatic news 20 Oct. 1877 pp._ 97, 107, _portrait_.
MAY, CHARLES (son of a Friend). _b._ Alton, Hants. 1800;
apprenticed to Mr. Sims of Stockport, chemist; a chemist and
millwright at Ampthill, Beds.; partner with Messrs. Ransome
of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1836; built an
observatory for his own use at Ipswich; F.R.A.S.; M.I.C.E.
1846, member of council 1848–55; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; removed
to London 1851; experimented on the strength of iron; invented
compressed tree-nails for fixing chairs to sleepers; introduced
the process of chilling for pivots of large instruments. _d._ 3
Great George st. Westminster 10 Aug. 1860. _Proceedings of royal
society_, _xi_ 10 (1860); _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xx_ 148 (1861).
MAY, EDWARD COLLETT. _b._ Greenwich 29 Oct. 1806; studied
under Adams, Potter and Crivelli; professor of vocal music at
Queen’s college, London; organist at Greenwich hospital 1837–69;
famed as an organist and teacher; author of Progressive vocal
exercises for daily practice 1853. _d._ about 16 Jany. 1887.
_Life of John Hullah_ (1886).
NOTE.--His daughter Florence May, pianist, is the composer of Six songs
for the pianoforte 1880 and other music.
MAY, EDWARD HARRISON (son of rev. Edward Harrison May). _b._
England 1824; taken to U.S. of America when young; studied
art under Daniel Huntington and under Couture in Paris 1851;
capt. in the American ambulance during Franco-Prussian war,
and a surgeon 1870–1; an associate of the National academy
1876; painted The dying brigand, now in Philadelphia academy
of fine arts; By the rivers of Babylon, now in the Century
club, New York; and Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre, now in
the Metropolitan museum, New York. _d._ Paris 17 May 1887.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iv_ 272 (1888).
MAY, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CHICHESTER (son of Edward May, rector of
Belfast). _b._ Belfast 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury and Magd. coll.
Camb., fellow; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; called to Irish bar Jany.
1844; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865, bencher of King’s Inns 1873; legal
adviser at Dublin castle March 1874; attorney general 27 Nov.
1875; lord chief justice of Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; P.C. Ireland 8
Feb. 1877; transferred to high court of justice as president of
queen’s bench division, retaining title of lord chief justice
1 Jany. 1878, resigned Jany. 1887; edited The Irish Reports.
Common law series, vol. 1 1868 and Equity series, vol. 1 1868;
edited with Wm. Woodlock The Irish Reports. Common law series,
vol. 2 1869 and Equity series, vol. 2 1869. _d._ Lisnavagh, co.
Carlow 15 Aug. 1892. _Graphic 3 Sep. 1892 p._ 274, _portrait_.
MAY, HENRY WILLIAM (son of George May, V. of Liddington, Wilts.,
_d._ 24 Dec. 1861). _b._ 1843; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch, Oxford,
B.A. 1865; barrister L.I. 5 June 1868; equity draftsman and
conveyancer; tutor to Legal council of education 1873–6; author
of A treatise on the statutes of Elizabeth against fraudulent
conveyances, the bills of sale, registration acts and the law
of voluntary disposition of property 1871, 2 ed. 1887; edited
with R. H. Leach and F. G. A. Williams, H. W. Seton’s Forms of
decrees, judgments and orders in the high court of justice and
courts of appeal having reference to the Chancery division, 4th
ed. 2 vols. in 3 vols. 1877–9. _d._ Alum bay, Freshwater, Isle
of Wight 30 June 1878.
MAY, HUNTLY, stage name of William Huntly May Macarthy. _b._
Tipperary; actor; strolling theatrical manager and a very
eccentric man; lessee of Exeter and Dundee theatres; _m._ 1846
Madame Castaglioni an actress who was living at 393 York road,
Wandsworth in 1881. _d._ Stokesley, Yorkshire 9 April 1866. _The
Era 22 April 1866 p._ 6, _2 July 1881 p._ 4 _and 9 July 1881 p._
5.
MAY, JOHN. The first superintendent of Metropolitan police 1829,
superintendent of A or Whitehall division to death. _d._ 23 Oct.
1855.
MAY, ROBERT CHARLES (son of Charles May, F.R.S., partner in firm
of Ransome and May of Ipswich, engineers). _b._ Ampthill, Beds.
5 April 1829; apprenticed to Ransome & May; a civil engineer
1853 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1861, M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1864;
consulting engineer and arbitrator in engineering disputes;
an assessor of the board of trade; an inspecting engineer for
railway materials for India; engineer to Galizzi sulphur mines,
Sicily, and to the Giona sulphur mines. _d._ Marseilles 20 July
1882. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii_ 367–8 (1883);
_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.