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Henry Mayo

1733 – 1793

English dissenting minister, tutor, and magazine editor

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Lived 1733 – 1793 (aged 59–60). Henry Mayo was a journalist and editor.

Henry Mayo (1733–1793) was an English dissenting minister and tutor, known also as a magazine editor.

Life Born in the west of England, Mayo came from Plymouth to London in 1756, and was admitted to the dissenting academy in Mile End Road. He preached for a short time at Northampton, and then became (1762) the pastor of the Independent congregation in Nightingale Lane, Wapping, London. He continued in charge there for the rest of his life.

In 1763 Mayo was engaged in controversy with John Gill on infant baptism. Mayo knew Samuel Johnson socially through the Dillys, and Boswell gave an account of a conversation they had from 1773 in his Life of Johnson, which earned Mayo the nickname "the Literary Anvil".

Mayo held the degrees of D.D. and LL.D., and on the death of Thomas Gibbons in 1785 was chosen one of the tutors at Homerton Academy. He died at his house in Wellclose Square 4 April 1793, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.

Family Mayo was twice married, first to Jane Marder, the widow of Mr. Martin, a West India merchant, with one daughter; and secondly to Jane Belfour, and had issue two daughters.

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English dissenting minister, tutor, and magazine editor

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Henry Mayo died in 1793.

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Henry Mayo was a journalist and editor.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Henry Mayo

· Wikidata: Q18065205

· DBpedia: Henry Mayo (minister)

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