John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

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.