Peter John Mayo

Peter John Mayo (16 February 1944 in London – 1 January 2004) was an English slavist and promoter of Belarusian studies in Great Britain.

Career Mayo was born in London. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1966.

In 1982 Mayo earned a PhD in philology. as well as section "Belarusian language" in the collective monograph "Slavic languages", numerous articles on Belarusian and Slavic studies. He also wrote reviews of Belarusian linguistic research, textbooks and dictionaries.

In 1979-88 Mayo was the editor of the Journal of Byelorussian Studies, and from 1989 of the Slavic Section of “Modern Languages Studies”. He prepared an English-Belarusian dictionary, a version of which was published in Minsk in 1995 as "Pocket English-Belarusian-Russian Dictionary".

Mayo was a longtime member of the Anglo-Belarusian Society and a trustee of the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum in London.

Death Mayo died in April 2004. The University of Sheffield prize for Russian was renamed in his honour.