Charles Herbert Mayo (1845-1929) was a Dorset clergyman and antiquarian. 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... see also Holy Orders The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond: A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders. ... An antiquarian or antiquary is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. ...

Mayo was born in 1845, the third of three children of William Mayo, the rector of Folke, and his wife Charlotte (née Dyer). 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... William Mayo is the name of: A former chief engineer of the Ford Motor Company, William B. Mayo The co-founder of the Mayo Clinic The civil engineer, born in about 1685, who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia The vicar of Folke, Dorset, England in about 1845 This... Folke is a village in north west Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale two miles south of Sherborne. ...

He received a Master of Arts degree from Lincoln College, Oxford. He was appointed Rural Dean and Non-Residentiary Canon of Salisbury and was vicar of Longburton from 1872 to 1912. Whilst there he lived at Longburton Rectory. A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate course of one or two years in duration. ... College name Lincoln College Named after Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln Established 1427 Sister College Downing College Rector Prof. ... A canon (from the Latin canonicus and Greek κανωνικωσ relating to a rule) is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to a rule (canon). ... Salisbury Cathedral from the Cathedral Yard High Street Market Great West Front of Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury (pronounced Solsbree or Sauls-bree) is a small cathedral city in Wiltshire, England. ... Longburton is a village in west Dorset, three miles (5 km) south of Sherborne. ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...

His great enthusiasm was local history and he promoted its study by publishing many books and articles on the subject, of which 34 are held in the British Library. His greatest work was the Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis published in 1885, which has yet to be supplanted as the standard Dorset antiquarian bibliography. This was derived from his large personal collection of Dorset ephemera and publications. British Library Ossulston St entrance, with distinctive red logo. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Bibliography is the study of books. ...

From 1888 until 1921 Canon Mayo was the Dorset Editor of the journal ‘Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries’. He also transcribed many of the registers of local parishes, the municipal records of the Borough of Shaftesbury and the Civil War Minutes of the Dorset Standing Committee, 1646-50. He wrote A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton Families originally published as a limited edition of 50 copies in 1882 but enlarged for a new edition in 1908. 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Location within the British Isles For other uses, see Shaftesbury (disambiguation) Shaftesbury is a town in North Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury. ... A standing committee is a subunit of a political or deliberative body established in a permanent fashion to aid the parent assembly in accomplishing its duties, usually by provided focused attention on one particular subject matter. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He supported women's suffrage. The movement for womens suffrage, led by suffragists (peaceful protestors) and suffragettes (violent protestors), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of all discrimination, for...

He died unmarried in 1929. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

His correspondence and research papers are now held by the Dorset History Centre except for a collection of typewritten notes about the Mayo family held by the Bodleian Library and two volumes of notes about Bristol and Gloucestershire families held by the Gloucestershire Record Office. Entrance to the Library, with the coats-of-arms of several Oxford colleges Oxford University Libraries Service (OULS) comprises over 30 of the University of Oxfords central and faculty libraries: from the world-famous Bodleian Library, established 400 years ago, to the modern digital library ventures. ... Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. ... Gloucestershire (pronounced ; GLOSS-ter-sher) is a county in southwest England. ...

Bibliography

• Charles Herbert Mayo, A history of Wimborne Minster : the collegiate church of Saint Cuthberga and King's free chapel at Wimborne, (Wimborne: Bell & Daldry, 1860)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton Families of the Counties of Wiltshire and Hereford; with a Appendix Containing Genealogies for the Most Part Not Hitherto Published of Certain Families By Marriage to the Family of Mayo, (London: Chiswick Press, 1882)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis, (Chiswick: C. Whittingham and Co., 1885)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, The municipal records of the borough of Shaftesbury : a contribution to Shastonian history, (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1889)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 1 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1889)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 2 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1891)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 3 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1893)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 4 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1895)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 5 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1897)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, The Registers of Lydlinch, Dorset 1559-1812 (London: Parish Record Society, 1899)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 6 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1899)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 7 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1901)
• Charles Herbert Mayo (ed.), The minute books of the Dorset Standing Committee 23rd Sept., 1646, to 8th May, 1650, (Exeter: William Pollard, 1902)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 8 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1903)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, A Plea for Female Suffrage in the Election of a Representative Church Council, (Sherborne: J. C. and A. T. Sawtell, 1903)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 9 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1905)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 10 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1907)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, A Genealogical Account of the Mayo & Elton Families of Wiltshire and Herefordshire and Some Other Adjoining Counties, Together with Numerous Biographical Sketches, (London: Chiswick Press, 1908) 2nd edition.
• Charles Herbert Mayo (ed.), The municipal records of the borough of Dorchester, (Exeter: William Pollard, 1908)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 11 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1909)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 12 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1911)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 13 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1913)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 14 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1915)
• Frederic William Weaver and Charles Herbert Mayo (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 15 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1918)
• G.W. Saunders, Charles Herbert Mayo, et al (eds.), Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries, Volume 16 (Sherborne: J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1920)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, The official guide to the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherborne, (Sherborne: F.Bennett & Co., 1925)
• Charles Herbert Mayo, A historic guide to the almshouse of St. John Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, Sherborne, (Oxford: University Press, 1926)