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. 1871. Reg. and mag. of biog. i 113–5, 358 (1869); I.L.N. liv 23, 45 (1869) portrait, lviii 117 (1871).
MAYNE, Richard Charles (son of the preceding). b. 1835; ed. at Eton; entered royal navy 1848; served in Baltic expedition 1854 and in the Crimea 1855–6; explored and surveyed in Vancouver island and British Columbia 1857–61; commanded the Eclipse in New Zealand 1863–4; captain 12 Feb. 1864; commanded Nassau on survey of Straits of Magellan 1866–9, commanded Invincible 1874–5; retired R.A. 26 Nov. 1879; F.G.S.; M.P. Pembroke and Haverfordwest 8 July 1886 to death, having contested the seat Nov. 1885; C.B. 13 March 1867; knight of Legion of Honour and of the Medjidie; author of Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver island 1862; Sailing directions for Magellan Strait 1871; had an apoplectic fit when leaving the Mansion house after the Welsh national banquet and d. 101 Queen’s gate, London 29 May 1892. Graphic 4 June 1892 p. 655, portrait; I.L.N. 4 June 1892 p. 683, portrait.
MAYNE, Robert. b. 1811; M.B. Dublin 1838; F.K.Q.C.P. 14 April 1856; censor 1857; lecturer on practice of medicine at Carmichael school 1835 and physician to Adelaide hospital, Dublin; president of Pathological society of Dublin; contributed to Todd’s Cyclopædia and to Dublin Journal of Medical science; author of On spontaneous varicose aneurism 1853. d. 13 Upper Gloucester st. Dublin 27 April 1864. Dublin Medical Press, li 425–6 (1864).
MAYNE, Robert Dawson (son of Sir Richard Mayne 1796–1868). b. 1844; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1867; barrister L.I. 26 Jany. 1869; chief magistrate of Lagos 1872–4; stipendiary justice at Port of Spain, Trinidad, and judge of the petty debt court 1874 to death. d. 10 June 1887.
MAYNE, William (son of Robert Mayne, R. of Limpsfield, Surrey, d. 1841). b. 8 Oct. 1818; entered Bengal army 12 June 1837; ensign 37 Bengal N.I. 3 Dec. 1838, captain 1 Jany. 1845 to death; present in the action at Bolam Pass 4 May 1839; served at siege of Jellalabad 1842; second in command of the governor general’s body guard 10 Feb. 1844 to 2 Jany. 1846, commanded the body guard 19 Jany. 1847 to 12 April 1851; commanded 10th Bengal irregular horse 2 Jany. 1846 to 19 Jany. 1847; hon. A.D.C. to governor general of India 7 Jany. 1848 to death; brigadier in the Nizam’s service April 1851, afterwards called the Hyderabad contingent 27 Jany. 1854 to death; A.D.C. to the Queen 23 Nov. 1855. d. Cairo 23 Dec. 1855. G.M. Feb. 1856 pp. 185–7.
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).