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.
MAYNE, ROBERT, brother of William Mayne (qv); b. 26 Feb 1778; adm. 16 Sep 1788; KS 1792; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1796, matr. 25 May 1796, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1797 (sic, correctly ?) – void by marriage 10 Jun 1803; BA 1800; MA 1803; ordained; Rector of Limpsfield, Surrey, from 30 Oct 1806; DL JP Surrey; m. 8 Jun 1803 Charlotte Cunynghame, dau. of Col. --- Graham, St. Lawrence House, near Canterbury, Kent; d. 7 Mar 1841.
MAYNE, ROBERT FREDERICK, eldest son of Robert Mayne (qv); b. 25 Jul 1804; adm. 27 Mar 1816 (Packharness'); KS 1818; d. 27 Jun 1820.
MAYNE, JOHN, second son of William Mayne (qv); b. 9 Dec 1807; adm. 28 Jun 1819 (Stelfox's); Ensign, 1st Foot 22 Jun 1826; Lieut., 12 Apr 1827; Capt., 5 Feb 1836; Brevet Maj., 9 Nov 1846; retd. 3 Sep 1847; m. 1st, 25 Mar 1829 Mary, dau. of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Richard Armstrong KCB, Commander-in-Chief, Madras; m. 2nd, 19 Oct 1841 Lucy, dau. of J. Ives, Norwich; m. 3rd, 22 Jan 1866 Amelia, dau. of Thomas Fielder; d. 12 Jan 1872.
MAYNE, JASPER, son of Jasper Mayne, Hatherleigh, Devon; bapt. Hatherleigh, Devon mettayer 23 Nov 1604; at school under Wilson (G. Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets, 1691); Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 23 Dec 1623; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, adm. as servitor, matr. 10 Oct 1628, aged 20, Canoneer Student 1627 – expelled 2 Oct 1648 by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission; BA 1628; MA 1631; BD 1642; DD 1646; acquired the Oxford reputation of being “a quaint preacher and a noted poet”; ordained; Rector of Cassington, Oxfordshire 1639 – c. 1652; Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire 30 Mar 1648-56; reinstated in benefices and Studentship at Restoration; Archdeacon of Chichester from 2 Jul 1660; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 27 Jul 1660; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II; wrote a number of verses; translated some of Lucian’s Dialogues; author of plays The City Match, 1639, and The Amorous War, 1648; d. 6 Dec 1672. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.
MAYNE, HENRY OTWAY, eldest son of Capt. Charles Otway Mayne, EIC Maritime Service, and Emma, dau. of Harry Vansittart Taylor, EICS Madras; nephew of William Mayne (qv); b. 11 Mar 1819; adm. 21 Jan 1833 (Stelfox's); KS 1833; left Dec 1835; Addiscombe Coll. 1836-7; Cadet, EICS Madras 1838; Cornet, 6th Light Cavalry 14 Jul 1838; Lieut., 23 Nov 1841; entered Nizam of Hyderabad’s service 1 Mar 1850; Brevet Capt., 11 Mar 1853; Capt., 31 Dec 1855; Brevet Maj., 24 Mar 1858; raised Mayne’s Horse and served with it 1859-60; m. 12 Jan 1850 Mary Ewer, youngest dau. of Thomas Jacob Turner, EICS Bengal; d. at Allahabad, Bengal, India 2 Nov 1861. Memorial tablet, North Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
MAYNE, HENRY BLAIR, son of Robert Mayne (qv); b. 23 Aug 1813; adm. 5 Jul 1826 (Stelfox's); KS 1827; rowed v. Eton 27 Jul 1829, 12 May 1831; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1831, matr. 21 May 1831, Westminster Student; BA 1835; MA 1838; Clerk, House of Commons 1836, Third Clerk, Private Bill Office 1848, Assistant Clerk 1849, Senior Clerk 1862, Principal Clerk, Table Office 1870-86; adm. Middle Temple 16 Nov 1838, called to bar 21 Nov 1845; member Marylebone, I Zingari and West Kent Cricket Clubs; played cricket for Kent 1835, 1844; one of the committee which framed the rules for short whist at the Arlington Club 1863; d. unm. 17 Jan 1892.