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McBride, Walter Nelson, son of Walter Sydney McBride, of Croydon, by Alice Mary, daughter of Thomas Oliver, of Croydon; b. Nov. 27, 1904; adm. Sept. 26, 1918 (G); left July 1924; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1924; B.A. 1928, M.A. 1931; played football against Cambridge 1927; played cricket against Cambridge 1926, and for Rants 1925-9; became an asst. master at Canford School; a director of Davies's, the London tutors, 1948; m. Dec. 9, 1948, Molly Josephine, daughter of Joseph Francis Baily, of Wimborne, Dorset; d. 30 Jan. 1974.

McBrain, Richard Freeman, son of R.S.F. McBrain of Shanghai; b. 16 Sept. 1903; adm. Sept. 1919 (H); left July 1921.

MAYOW, MAYOW WYNELL, second son of Rev. Mayow Wynell Mayow, Vicar of Market Lavington, Wilts., and Caroline Kate, second dau. of Rev. Alfred Smith, Old Park, Devizes, Wilts.; b. 13 Jan 1850; adm. 25 Sep 1862 (G); QS 1865; left Easter 1868; RMA Woolwich 1868; Lieut., Royal Artillery 4 Jan 1871; Capt., 26 Jan 1881; Maj., 8 Sep 1886; retd. 15 Jan 1890; served on Burmese expedition 1886; d. 3 Apr 1930.

Mayor, Richard Percy, son of Ernest Meyer of Hampstead; b. 3 May 1909; adm. Jan. 1923 (H); left Dec. 1926; a textile manufacturer; assumed the name of Mayor in lieu of Meyer; m. June 1939 Doris Maud Moss.

MAYO, THOMAS, eldest son of John Mayo MD FRCP, Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, and Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Thomas Cock, Tottenham, Middlesex; b. 24 Jan 1790; in school list 1803; promised his father that he would obtain a Fellowship at Oriel “provided he would permit me to escape the “foundation” of Westminster School and its peculiar training, which combined with a very fair proportion of Latin and Greek, occasional aerostation in a blanket” (Munk, Roll of the Royal Coll. of Physicians, iii, 200 note); Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Jun 1807; 1st cl. Classics 1811; BA 1811; MA 1814; MB 1815; MD 1818; Fellow, Oriel Coll. 23 Apr 1813; succeeded to his father’s practice at Tunbridge Wells 1818; settled in London 1835, practising there to 1862; FRCP 1819, Censor 1835, 1839, 1850, Harveian Orator 1841, Elect 1847, President 1857-62; FRS 4 Jun 1835; author, several medical treatises; m. 1st, 28 Nov 1817 Lydia Jane, youngest dau. of John Bill MD, Farley Hall, Staffs.; m. 2nd, 6 Nov 1861 Susan Mary, widow of Rear-Adm. Sir William Symonds, Royal Navy, and dau. of Rev. John Briggs, Fellow of Eton Coll.; d. 13 Jan 1871. DNB.

MAYNE, WILLIAM, eldest son of Robert Mayne MP, Upper Gatton, Surrey, banker and merchant, and his second wife Sarah, second dau. of Francis Otway (qv); b.; adm. 27 Jun 1787; Ensign, Queen’s Rangers 21 Mar 1792; Lieut., Independent Co., 3 Feb 1795; Capt. -Lieut. and Capt., Queen’s Rangers 4 Feb 1795; Capt., 14 Apr 1798; Maj., 21st Light Dragoons 17 May 1798; retd. 29 Jul 1802; served in North America 1797; Lieut. -Col., Loyal Lusitanian Legion, Portugal Dec 1808 – Oct 1809, under command of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (qv); Commandant, Almeida 1809; re-entered Army as Cornet, 12th Light Dragoons 27 Jun 1811; Lieut., 1st Life Guards 26 Sep 1811; Capt., 14 Dec 1815; 7th Light Dragoons 8 Mar 1820; retd. 29 Mar 1820; present at battle of Waterloo; m. 17 Jan 1805 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Taylor, Bart., Lysson Hall, Jamaica; d. at Brussels 11 Dec 1843, aged 68.

Mayne, William Cyril, youngest son of the Rev. Jonathan Mayne, Rector of Christian Malford, Wilts, by Lydia Dorothea, daughter of the Rev. John Webster Hawksley, Rector of Redruth, Cornwall; b. April 14, 1877; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 16, 1890; Mure Scholar 1894; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. July 1896 (adm. pensr. Oct. 1, 1896); Stewart of Rannock Scholar 1897; 1st class Classical Tripos and B.A. 1899; M.A. 1904; ordained 1906; asst. master at Eastbourne Coll. 1899-1906; at Malvern Coll. 1906-7; Curate of Great Malvern 1906-7; asst. master at Rugby School 1907-12; Curate of All Saints, Poplar, 1912-4; Vice-Principal of Bishop's Coll Cheshunt 1919, Principal May 19, 1920-4; Rector of Poplar, Middlesex 1925-30; Vicar of Chiswick 1930-4; Boyle Lecturer 1929-31; Prof. of Greek and Classical Literature, Durham Univ., and Canon of Durham 1934-43; Dean of Carlisle 1943-59; Warden of the Order of St. Elizabeth of Hungary; served as Army Chaplain in Great War I, 1914-9, in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France; author of a Translation of Pindar's Olympian Odes into English Verse (1907), and other works; m. Jan. 14, 1930, Mary, only daughter of Major George Arthur Onslow, of Dorrington, Salop; d. July 20, 1962.

MAYNE, SIMON WILLIAM, eldest son of William Mayne (qv); b. 18 Dec 1805; adm. 28 Jun 1819 (Stelfox's); Ensign, 99th Foot 1 Apr 1821; Lieut., 7 Jul 1825; Capt., 1 Feb 1827; half-pay, 27th Foot 25 Nov 1831; 40th Foot 5 Apr 1833; 19th Light Dragoons 12 Apr 1839; m. 1829 Charlotte, widow of R. Balland; d. at Brussels 25 Dec 1843.