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