John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (January 28, 1825 - ), English classical scholar, was born at Baddegama, Ceylon, and educated in England at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge.

From 1863 to 1867 he was librarian of the university, and in 1872 succeeded HAJ Munro in the professorship of Latin. His best-known work, an edition of thirteen satires of Juvenal, is marked by an extraordinary wealth of illustrative quotations. His Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature (1873), based on E Hübner's Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die römische Litteraturgeschichte is a valuable aid to the student, and his edition of Cicero's Second Philippic is widely used.

He also edited the English works of J Fisher, bishop of Rochester, i. (1876); Thomas Baker's History of St John's College, Cambridge (1869); Richard of Cirencester[?]'s Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae 447-1066 (1863-1869); Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster (new ed., 1883); the Latin Heptateuch (1889); and the Journal of Philology[?].

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.