John Edward Bickersteth Mayor: Historical papers

John Edward Bickersteth Mayor (1825-1910), classical scholar and divine, was educated at Christ's Hospital, Shrewsbury, and St John's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1849. He was master at Marlborough, 1849-1853, and classical tutor at St John's from 1853, and published Baker's History of St John's College (2 vols.) in 1869. Ecclesiastical history, in collaboration with J.R. Lumby (1878); and edited works by Cicero, Homer, Pliny, and Quintilian. His other publications include Mayor was Cambridge University Librarian, 1864-1867, and in 1872 was made Professor of Latin at the university, a position he held until his death. He published biographies of Nicholas Ferrar (1855), Matthew Robinson (1856), Ambrose Benwicke (1870), and William Bedell (1870); edited books iii and iv of Bede's A biography of Latin literature (1875), A first Greek reader (1868), and First German reader (1910).

Historical notes, mostly connected to Cambridge and Oxford Universities

Bequeathed by the Revd Professor J.E.B. Mayor, 1910.

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, John Edward Bickersteth Mayor: Historical papers, MS Add.6670-6671