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Horace Mayhew (1816 – 30 April 1872) was an English journalist, a writer of humorous sketches and a sub-editor of the magazine ''
Horace Mayhew (1816 – 30 April 1872) was an English journalist, a writer of humorous sketches and a sub-editor of the magazine ''Punch
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Life
He was born in London, son of Joshua Dorset Joseph Mayhew, a lawyer, and his wife Mary Ann Fenn. Henry Mayhew, a co-founder of the magazine ''Punch
Punch commonly refers to:
* Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
* Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice
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'', and the writer Augustus Mayhew
Augustus Septimus Mayhew (1826 – 25 December 1875) was an English journalist and author, born in London
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were brothers. He initially trained to be a lawyer, but turned to journalism. In 1845 he was one of the contributors to George Cruikshank's ''Table Book''. For a time he was Mark Lemon's sub-editor on the staff of ''Punch''. In December 1847 his play ''Plum Pudding Pantomime'' was produced at the Olympic Theatre.
In 1848 Mayhew published the humorous sketches ''Change for a Shilling'', ''Model Men'', ''Model Women and Children'', and an edition of Cruikshank's ''Comic Almanac''; in 1849 ''A Plate of Heads'', with Paul Gavarni's drawings; ''The Toothache'', with drawings by Cruikshank; another issue of the ''Comic Almanac'', with Cruikshank's illustrations; and ''Guy Faux''.
From 1852, the year it passed under Douglas Jerrold's editorship, he became a frequent contributor to '' Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper''. In 1853 he wrote ''Letters left at the Pastry-cook's''. The death of his father about 1857 left him in easy circumstances, and he wrote little in later years. Mayhew married in 1868 Emily Sarah Fearon, the widowed daughter of an army officer; they had no children.
John Andrew Hamilton wrote: "He was a handsome, captivating man, a brilliant talker and raconteur, and was very popular in society."
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Attribution * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayhew, Horace 1816 births 1872 deaths Punch (magazine) people Mayhew family 19th-century journalists English humorists