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HENRY MAYHEW (1812-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 935 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:MAYHEW (1812-1887)  , See also:English author and journalist, son of a See also:London See also:solicitor, was See also:born in 1812 . He was sent to See also:Westminster school, but ran away to See also:sea . He sailed to See also:India, and on his return studied See also:law for a See also:short See also:time under his See also:father . He began his journalistic career by See also:founding, with See also:Gilbert A . Beckett, in 1831, a weekly See also:paper, See also:Figaro in London . This was followed in 1832 by a short-lived paper called The Thief; and he produced one or two successful farces . His See also:brothers See also:Horace (1816-1872) and See also:Augustus Septimus (1826-1875) were also journalists, and with them See also:Henry occasionally collaborated, notably with the younger in The Greatest See also:Plague of See also:Life (1847) and in Acting Charades (185o) . In 1841 Henry See also:Mayhew was-See also:MAYMYO 935 one of the leading See also:spirits in the See also:foundation of See also:Punch, of which he was for the first two years See also:joint-editor with See also:Mark See also:Lemon . He afterwards wrote on all kinds of subjects, and published a number of volumes of no permanent reputation—humorous stories, travel and See also:practical handbooks . He is credited with being the first to " write up " the poverty See also:side of London life from a philanthropic point of view; with the collaboration of See also:John Binny and others he published London Labour and London Poor (1851; completed 1864) and other See also:works on social and economic questions . He died in London, on the 25th of See also:July 1887 . Horace Mayhew was for some years sub-editor of Punch, and was the author of several humorous publications and plays .

The books of Horace and Augustus Mayhew owe their survival chiefly to See also:

Cruikshank's illustrations .

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