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JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH MAYOR (1825– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN EYTON See also:BICKERSTETH See also:MAYOR (1825– )  , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Baddegama, See also:Ceylon, on the 28th of See also:January 1825, and educated in See also:England at See also:Shrewsbury School and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge . From 1863 to 1867 hewas librarian of the university, and in 1872 succeeded H . A . J . See also:Munro in the professorship of Latin . His best-known See also:work, an edition of thirteen satires of See also:Juvenal, is marked by an extra-See also:ordinary See also:wealth of illustrative quotations . His See also:Bibliographical See also:Clue to Latin Literature (1873), based on E . Hiibner's Grundriss zu Vorlesungen fiber See also:die romische Litteraturgeschichte is a valuable aid to the student, and his edition of See also:Cicero's Second Philippic is widely used . He also edited the English See also:works of J . See also:Fisher, See also:bishop of See also:Rochester, i . (1876); See also:Thomas See also:Baker's See also:History of St John's College, Cambridge (1869); See also:Richard of See also:Cirencester's See also:Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae 447–.ro66 (1863–1869); See also:Roger See also:Ascham's Schoolmaster (new ed., 1883); the Latin Heptateuch (1889); and the See also:Journal of See also:Philology . His See also:brother, See also:JOSEPH See also:BICKERSTETH See also:MAYOR (1828— ), classical scholar and theologian, was educated at See also:Rugby and St John's College, Cambridge, and from 187o to 1879 was See also:professor of See also:classics at See also:King's College, See also:London .

His most important classical works are an edition of Cicero's De natura deorum (3 vols., 188o–1885) and See also:

Guide to the Choice of Classical Books (3rd ed., 1885, with supplement, 1896) . He also devoted See also:attention to theological literature and edited the epistles of St See also:James (2nd ed., 1892), St See also:Jude and St See also:Peter (1907), and the Miscellanies of See also:Clement of See also:Alexandria (with F . J . A . See also:Hort, 1902) . From 1887 to 1893 he was editor of the Classical See also:Review . His Chapters on English See also:Metre (1886) reached a second edition in 1901 .

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