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Birth: 1756
Death: 7 5 1829, age: 73
Bapt: 30 8 1756
Occ: Barrister and Judge in Ireland
Educ: Trinity College, Dublin: Entered 1772, Scholarship 1775, BA 1777. Reli: Church of Ireland
Judge EDWARD MAYNE 1756-1829 of Churchtown, North Dublin and Taney Parish, Dublin. Trinity College, Dublin: Entered 1772, Scholarship 1775, BA 1777.
Entered Middle Temple (London) 1779.
Married Sarah Fiddes 1780 by whom he had some 13 children. Called to the Irish Bar 1781.
Justice of the Common Pleas 1805 [1806#]. Justice of the King's Bench 1816 [1817#]. Resigned 1818 [1820#].
On the death of his father in 1777, Edward, the eldest son, was already busy in Dublin, and later London, in pursuing a career in the law. He therefore had handed over his responsibilities for the family estate at Freame Mount to his younger brother William, providing him with legal and other advice from Dublin where Edward brought up a large family. His wife bore him 13 children of whom 12 survived to be adults. His addresses in Dublin were :-
1793-1800: Dawson Street
28 St Stephen’s Green North, Dublin, home of Edward Mayne between 1805-20. Now part of the Shelbourne Hotel
As a Judge, Edward was described as being of "the sapient, soft and melancholy strain", yet a list of the sentences he passed in 1815 (listed at The Old Court House, Downpatrick Museum) included quite a few death sentences - one for stealing a horse. He took no part in politics. Resigned 1820 due to ill-health. Lived in Dublin as above.
Sources:
"The Parish of Taney (Church Wardens)"
"Judges in Ireland 1221-1921" Vol.2 by F Elrington Ball [#Shows later appointment dates] "Dublin Dirctories" for 1793, 1794, 1800, 1805, 1815, 1820.
Spouse: Sarah Fiddes
Birth: 1765
Death: 1853, age: 88
Sarah was the only daughter of John Fiddes (Attorney of Dublin) and Catherine Walsh of Lislea, Co. Monaghan. In June 1820, she was living at Drogheda, according to a letter to her nephew.
Marr: 6 1780, Dublin, Ireland
Children: Catherine (Died as Child) (1782-) Dorothea (ca1783-) Charles (1785-1873) Edward (<1791-1878) Sarah (-1832) John (1793-1829) Catherine (ca1795-1869) Richard (1796-1868) William (-1867) Dawson (1799-1872) Margaret Robert (1805-1843)
Frances (Fanny) Rebecca (1807-1872)
1.1.4.3.1.1 Catherine Mayne --- Birth: 11 4 1782 1.1.4.3.1.2 Dorothea Mayne --- Birth: ca 1783
Dorothea was her husband Captain John Mayne's first cousin. She was the daughter of 1.1.4.3.1 Judge Edward Mayne (1756- 1829), Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland (1816), and Sarah Fiddes 1765-1853 of Lislea, Co. Monaghan.
Spouse: Captain John Mayne Birth: 1772, Ireland
Death: 1855, 9th March, Runnymede, Dundrum, Co. Dublin, Ireland, age: 82 Occ: Officer in 9th Light Dragoons 1795-1803
Reli: Protestant (Church of Ireland) Father: Lieut Edward Mayne (1725-1784) Mother: Helen Gault (or Gore)
Additional details of Captain John Mayne, his army career, the 1798 revolution and anecdotes of his later life are given above at
1.1.4.2.2a. Marr: 29 5 1813 Children: Dawson (1817-1858) Helen (ca1819-) Robert (1821-1905) John Colburn (1825-1859) Dorothea (Dora) (ca1830-)
1.1.4.3.1.3 Rev. Charles Mayne DD MA
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Birth: 22 4 1785, Dublin, Ireland Death: 1873, age: 87
Occ: Lawyer: King's Inns 1803, Middle Temple, London 1805, Called to Irish Bar 1808. Church: Rector of Kilmastulla. Vicar General of the Diocese of Cashel.
Educ: Trinity College, Dublin 1801, BA 1805. MA 1817. Reli: Church of Ireland
Rev. CHARLES MAYNE 1785-1873
Born Dublin. Entered Trinity College, Dublin 1801, BA 1805.
King's Inns 1803, Middle Temple, London 1805, Called to Irish Bar 1808. MA 1817. Rector of Kilmastulla. Vicar General of the Diocese of Cashel. Lived at Killaloe, Co. Clare.
The library of Trinity College, Dublin, where Charles and many of the Mayne family studied
Spouse: Susanna Henn
Death: 1865
Daughter of William Henn, Master in Chancery, Ireland (1793), and Susannah Lovett.
Marr: 4 1813
Children: William Henn (1816-1876) Charles
Edward John (1824-1900) Susan (-1894)
1.1.4.3.1.3.1 William Henn Mayne
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Birth: 1816, Dublin, Ireland Death: 1876, age: 60
Occ: Justice of the Peace for Co. Clare, Ireland. Educ: Trinity College, Dublin 1833, BA 1838 Spouse: Eliza Emily (or Amelia?) Murray Daughter of Thomas Murray of Edenderry, King's Co.
Eliza and William Henn Mayne lived at Killaloe, Co. Clare, Ireland, where William was a Justice of the Peace for Co. Clare. Children: Margaret Caroline
Susan Edith
1.1.4.3.1.3.1.1 Margaret Caroline Mayne
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Margaret and John Moffatt had a daughter who died in infancy (Source for this and her marriage is Avril Anderson of East Kilbride, Scotland who is a descendant of the Moffatt family [E-mail: [email protected]]).
The marriage was short-lived as Margaret was living with her sister Susan at Killaloe, Co. Clare in 1883 ("County Families of UK").
Spouse: Surgeon Reverend John Edward Moffatt
Marr: 1878
1.1.4.3.1.3.1.2 Susan Edith Mayne
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Susan was living with her sister Margaret at Killaloe, Co. Clare in 1883 ("County Families of UK").
1.1.4.3.1.3.2 Charles Mayne
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1.1.4.3.1.3.3 Edward John Mayne
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Birth: 8 4 1824, Gloucester, England Death: 30 1 1900, age: 75
Occ: Barrister: King's Inns 1844, Middle Temple 1846, Irish Bar 1848 Educ: Trinity College, Dublin1841, BA 1846
EJ Mayne as a barrister lived at 16 Merion Street, Dublin, Ireland.
Dublin Directories show him living in 1887 at 17 Herbert Street (picture below - furthest doorway).
1.1.4.3.1.3.4 Susan Mayne
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Death: 6 6 1894
Susan died unmarried.
1.1.4.3.1.3.5 Eliza Mayne
--- Spouse: John Going
John Going came from Cragg, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.
1.1.4.3.1.4 Edward Mayne
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Birth: bef 1791
Death: 1878, age: 87
Occ: Lawyer: King's Inns 1806 (Apprentice to John Mayne, Solicitor, of 35 French St. Dublin). Educ: Rev John Gavin, Molesworth St. Dublin; Armagh College (Rev. Thos. Carpendale) Spouse: Elizabeth Henn
Daughter of William Henn, Master in Chancery, Ireland (1793), and Susannah Lovett (Sister of Sir Jonathan Lovett, Bart. of Liscombe Park, Bucks, England.
Marr: 1 1810
Children: Edward (-1888) Susan (-1864)
32 Baggott Street, Edward Mayne & Elizabeth Henn’s home in Dublin 1.1.4.3.1.4.1a Edward Mayne*
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Death: 19 8 1888
Edward lived at Tixall Lodge, Staffordshire, England, where he died 19 8 1888. His other addresses in England were 5 Carlton Place, Richmond Park, Clifton, Gloucestershire, and at Walton Bury, Staffs.
Spouse: Janette Woodall Janette was Edward's first wife. Other Spouses Georgiana Taylor
1.1.4.3.1.4.1b Edward Mayne* (See above)
--- Spouse: Georgiana Taylor
Death: 14 10 1881, Walton Bury, Staffs, England. Georgie was Edward's second wife.
Other Spouses Janette Woodall
1.1.4.3.1.4.2 Susan Mayne
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Death: 1864
She died unmarried.
1.1.4.3.1.5 Sarah Mayne
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Death: 1832
Spouse: Rev. R French Lawrence
Marr: 1830
1.1.4.3.1.6 John Mayne
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Birth: 1793, Co. Armagh, N. Ireland
Death: 1829, Mountjoy Place, Dublin, Ireland, age: 36
Occ: Solicitor then Barrister: King's Inns 1811, Lincoln's Inn 1813, Irish Bar 1816 Educ: Trinity College, Dublin 1 1 1810, BA 1815
Reli: Church of Ireland JOHN MAYNE, Barrister, 1793-1829
Born in Armagh. 3rd son of Judge Edward Mayne & Sarah Fiddes. 1810 TCD, Lincoln's Inn (London) 1813, called to the Irish Bar 1816. Lived at Mountjoy Place, Dublin. Married 1822 ANNA JOHNSON born GRAVES, daughter of Bishop Dean Graves. (Ref: No.339 - Marriage Licence - in the Appendix to the 30th Report of the Keepers of the Public Records & State Papers in Ireland)
John practised in Dublin first as a Solicitor and then as a Barrister (per King's Inn papers). He and his wife Anna's addresses in Dublin directories were:-
1820 38 French Street
1830 & 1832 41 French Street (Post Mortem!). His wife continued there until 1834.
1840-46 55 Upper Baggott Street. Widow Anna's home. John was Clerk of the Peace for Co. Cavan when he died in 1829.
In about 1814 when he was 20 he did "the Grand Tour" (mainly the old civilisations in Italy and France) and his Journal of it was published, edited by his grandson John Mayne Colles.
Spouse: Anna Johnson (born Graves) Daughter of the Very Rev. Dean Graves.
After her husband's death, Anna continued to live in Dublin at 41 French Street 1830-34 and then moved to 55 Upper Baggott Street, Dublin where she was living 1840-46 according to Dublin directories.
Marr: 1822
Children: Edward Graves (1823-1887) John Dawson (1828-1917) Elizabeth Mary (->1887) Sarah Kate (-1882) Richard Graves (-1845)
1.1.4.3.1.6.1 Edward Graves Mayne
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Birth: 2 5 1823, Dublin, Ireland Death: 14 7 1887, age: 64
Occ: Barrister: King's Inns 1843, Middle Temple 1845, Irish Bar 1847.
Educ: Trinity College, Dublin 1840, Scholar 1844, BA 1845, University Elector 1868.
EDWARD GRAVES MAYNE, Barrister, 1823-87
Born Dublin. Elder son of John & Anna Mayne. 1840 Entered TCD, 1843 King's Inns, 1844 Scholarship, 1845 BA, 1845 Middle Temple (London), 1847 Called to the Bar. 1868 University Elector.
Member of the Royal Dublin Society for whom he read a paper in 1862 on "Queensland as a Field for Emigration" (copy
available). He travelled widely and became the first Registrar of Melbourne University. In the 1860s he went into partnership with JA Macartney in Queensland where Edward had bought land, which his partner worked as a station in his absence. The
partnership was dissolved in acrimony shortly before Edward died in 1887.
In 1846 he was living at 55 Upper Baggot Street, his parent's home. Later he lived in Elgin Road, South Dublin (see picture) and shared the house with his younger sister, Sarah Kate Mayne, who had been widowed in India.
Sarah Kate died at Elgin Road in 1882 (EG Mayne was joint executor, with Edward John Mayne, of her Will in 1886). EG Mayne was unmarried. He died there in 1887. His nephew John Mayne Colles was the executor of his Will under which he left £40,000 in England. JMC attempted to obtain a refund of investment from Macartney, Edward’s erstwhile partner in Queensland without success.
Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, South Dublin.
Both Edward Graves Mayne and his sister Sarah Kate at various times lived here
1.1.4.3.1.6.2a Judge John Dawson Mayne*(‘JD’)
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Birth: 31 12 1828, Dublin, Ireland (Upper Baggot Street?) Death: 24 3 1917, Goodrest, Shinfield, Reading, England, age: 88 Burial: 27 3 1917, St Mary's Church, Shinfield, Reading, age: 88
Occ: Barrister: Inner Temple 1850, Called to the English Bar 1854, Madras Bar (India) 1857 Educ: Trinity College, Dublin 1846.
Reli: Church of England
John Dawson Mayne was a wealthy lawyer who married twice but had no children. In his later years after his return to England from India in 1873 he looked after the interests of the Mayne family in England. He provided them with free legal advice and support and on occasion financial help. Dorothea Pinder, née Mayne, remembers Cousin John (or "JD") in about 1904 lending her mother £100 when funds from her husband in Madras failed to come through. This had resulted from "the failure of Arbuthnots Bank in Madras which had left many families penniless and the London director of the Bank (McFadyean) jumped to his death in front of a tube train"!
JD Mayne's Career
In India JD's name had become well known as the ICS Judge who had written the first 'Indian Penal Code' which was
subsequently expanded by Coutts-Trotter. He had also left India in a hurry having run off with another man's beautiful wife - who he subsequently married. Her beauty was marred only by what in Victorian times was called 'a Port wine mark' on one side of her face i.e. a birth mark, which in later life caused her to favour veils.
ENGLAND
2 5 1850 Admitted to the Inner Temple, London (2nd Prizeman). 17 11 1854 Called to the Bar.
1854-56 Practised at the English Bar (Chambers at 5 Essex Court, Temple, London EC).
INDIA
1857 Joined the Madras Bar.
1860-72 Asst. Secretary to Madras Government Legislation Department. 186? Clerk of the Crown, High Court, Madras.
1862-72 Chief Clerk, Insolvent Debtors Court, Madras.
Crown Prosecutor & Acting Advocate General, Madras. Professor of Law at Presidency College, Madras. Writer of 'the Indian Penal Code'.
ENGLAND
1873-1903 Practised at the Privy Council :-
1874-76 Chambers at 5 Child's Place, Temple, London 1877-1904 Chambers at 1 Crown Office Row, Temple, London. 1879-85? Professor of Common Law to the Inns of Court. 1880 Contested Falmouth constituency (not elected) 1890 Dublin University 'Elector'
Author of:-
"The Law of Damages" "Hindu Law & Usage"
"Commentaries on the Indian Penal Code" "Criminal Law of India" etc...
The Arms of MAYNE of Mount Sedborough & Co. Monaghan
which were inscribed on the Mayne vault at Dartrey church in 1773.
Mayne Genealogy
JD became the family genealogist and is reputed to have compiled the large Mayne pedigree in about 1900. Unfortunately it is still circulating. A note by HC Barnard of Somerset on his own 1922 pedigree of a branch of the Scottish Maynes uses, and attributes to JD, its four earliest generations going back to AD 878. These generations are in the monster Mayne pedigree, proving that it was indeed JD's work.
In it he has linked almost all historically well-known Mayne branches together. That is, he connects his Irish family with the Bucks, Herts and Warwickshire lines, and together links all of them to the ancient and wealthy Kent family of the Middle Ages, and thence right back to 9th century Normandy.
Sad to say, all attempts to validate JD's monster pedigree beyond 17th century Ireland have failed. It is also clear that some of the earlier component parts of the monster do not hang together. [We conclude that 'JD' like another high flying lawyer, John Thomas Mayne of Teffont, Wiltshire, had delusions of grandeur! See the article "A Mild Deception"]
JD printed and used as his own the Arms carved on the Mayne family memorial at Dartrey Church, Cootehill in Ireland (see the photo picture above, and the Notes on Robert Mayne 1679-1753 about the memorial).
"Goodrest" was John Dawson & Annie Mayne’s home from about 1877.
In England Judge John Dawson Mayne and his second wife lived at Shinfield near Reading, Berkshire, in a converted 17th century ornamental Gothic mansion (built in 1630 by Sir Francis Englefield) called "Goodrest" which JD acquired around 1877- 80. The house was so named because, during the Civil War, it was where in 1643 an exhausted Cromwell stayed after the battle of Newbury. JD and Annie Katherine were there at the 1881 Census together with a cook, parlour maid and housemaid.
The estate is also known by its original name, Shinfield Park, and in the map of 1882 the size of the gardens and orchards to the south of the house is said to have required about 20 gardeners. Since JD's time the north-west half of the grounds were sold off for housing which necessitated the filling in of a lake. The remainder of the estate is now a school (Crosfields School, part of the Leighton Park Trust).
JD and his wife died at "Goodrest" in 1917 within six weeks of each other and are buried in Shinfield cemetery, 200 yards from St Mary's church.
Postscript
On a visit made in 1984 to Shinfield and Crosfield School, we spoke to an elderly resident Jack Spink who told of an even older local woman who had just died and had worked at "Goodrest" in JD's time. Jack remembered the deceased saying that the old couple (JD and his wife) were fairly reclusive and the Judge's wife always wore a veil (the Port wine mark?) and that they were very security conscious. They used to insist that the doors were unlocked and then locked again as visitors went through the house (an Indian view of the threat of theft perhaps?).
First Spouse: Helen Sarah Hamilton
Birth: ca 1841
Birth Memo: A 'Minor' in 1859
Marr: 11 8 1859, Madras, South India Marr Memo: By licence
Other Spouses Annie Katherine Craigie-Halkett
Helen was the only daughter of Colonel Richard Hamilton, Madras Staff Corps and 1st Native Infantry, Madras Army, and Mrs Mary Hamilton. She married JD Mayne in India in 1859, but they were divorced in about 1872-3 after JD ran off with another man's wife (who not only was about 8 years older than Helen but also had a disfiguring birth mark on the side of her face).
Douglas Hamilton & the Panoramas
Among the witnesses at Helen Hamilton's wedding at Madras in 1859 was a Douglas Hamilton. This is almost certainly Lt Col Douglas Hamilton (1818-92), the youngest of three brothers, children of Charles and Sarah Hamilton of Sudbury Grove, Middlesex, and Kensworth House, Herts.
Douglas served with the 21st Native Infantry, Madras Army throughout his time in India 1837-71. Forest conservation became one of his major concerns and from 1854-60 he helped organise and later directed an experimental conservancy in the Anaimalai Hills. This was the origin of what became the Forestry Department of South India.
In 1861 he was given a roving commission by Sir Charles Trevelyan to make drawings for the Government of all the hill plateaux in South India which were suitable for sanatoria or quarters for European troops. He produced a series of five sets of pen and ink drawings and reports between 1861-63. This family link to the Hamiltons accounts for the large number of Douglas' framed panoramas being currently in the possession of descendants of this branch of the Mayne family.
1.1.4.3.1.6.2b Judge John Dawson Mayne* (See above)
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Second Spouse: Annie Katherine Craigie-Halkett Birth: 1833, ?Scotland
Death: 5.1917, age: 84
Burial: 12.5.1917, St Mary's Church, Shinfield, England, age: 84
Annie was the daughter of Charles Craigie Halkett-Inclis of Cramond, Midlothian and Harthill (in or near Edinburgh, Scotland). Annie was reputed to be very beautiful despite her face being marred by what in Victorian times was called 'a Port wine mark' i.e. a birth mark.
In India Annie and JD ran off together and each later divorced their first spouses in order to marry in May 1873. The name of Annie's first husband is not known.
Marr: 5 1873
Other Spouses Helen Sarah Hamilton
1.1.4.3.1.6.3 Elizabeth Mary Mayne
--- Death: aft 1887 ELIZABETH MARY MAYNE
Elder daughter of John & Anna Mayne. In 1845 she married HENRY JONATHAN COPE COLLES, a Dublin barrister, and they had eight children. These included John Mayne Colles LLD, of Stillorgan, Dublin (who edited his grandfather John Mayne's Journal) and Frances Maria Adelaide Colles (born 1849) who in 1868 at St Stephen's, Dublin, married barrister Edward Gibson
1837-1913, by whom she had eight children. Gibson took up a political career in the London parliament and in 1885 became a
Cabinet Minister and was made the 1st Baron Ashbourne. At the same time, he became Lord Chancellor of Ireland, the highest judicial appointment in the land. Elizabeth was alive in 1887 when she was executor for her elder brother's Will.
[See "Spending more Time with the Family" below, which describes Gibson's remarkable career in politics and the law, and his conflicting devotion to his wife and eight children.]
Spouse: Henry Jonathan Cope Colles Birth: ?Roebuck, Taney Parish, Co. Dublin Death: 25 12 1877
Occ: Dublin Barrister
Henry Colles was the son of Abraham Colles MD who was born in Kilkenny and lived at Donnybrook Cottage, (now St Margaret's), Roebuck in the parish of Taney, Co. Dublin, and died in 1842.
Marr: 1845
"SPENDING MORE TIME WITH THE FAMILY"
Biographical notes on Edward Gibson, First Lord Ashbourne (1837-1913) by DG
Edward Gibson was a Dublin Barrister who became the first Lord Ashbourne in 1885 following his appointment as Lord Chancellor of Ireland with a seat in the Conservative Cabinet.
Despite childish ill health from the age of 11 or 12, resulting in long absence from school, he had a "highly successful" time at University (Trinity College, Dublin - a 'First' in History. Political Science & English Lit). It was probably due to his father, a very wealthy Dublin solicitor with connections in the Inland Revenue that Edward chose initially to follow a career in the law. But his legal links were greatly strengthened when in 1868 he married Frances Maria Adelaide Colles, both of whose parents came from large families (Colles and Mayne) full of lawyers, many of them still practising in Dublin. His grandmother was Elizabeth Mary Mayne, whose brothers, father John Mayne and grandfather Judge Edward Mayne had all been barristers.
Apart from his cleverness, Gibson's other main talent, shared by many an Irishman, was his ability to move an audience with his oratory. With this powerful combination and a private income (from his father), he had the freedom to please himself. His start on a legal career was unremarkable. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1860 and became a QC (Queen's Counsel) in 1872. However, during this period while travelling on the Leinster circuit he had been a Conservative political organiser and in 1874 he fought his first election for Waterford City - and lost. The following year he contested the by-election at Trinity College, Dublin, and was returned. Thus he found himself sitting in the Westminster parliament in London where Disraeli's Conservative government formed in 1874 had other interests apart from Ireland. Gibson was a strong supporter of Disraeli who used him and his oratory with success in maintaining an Irish policy of inactivity - even after the situation there deteriorated after 1877. That year he was made Attorney General for Ireland and for the next three years used that minor legal office to increase his influence in Irish affairs. He remained fully committed to politics despite being offered a Judgeship in the Irish Court of Appeal in 1878. It was said that he turned down a similar offer in 1880.
Disraeli lost the 1880 general election to Gladstone's Liberals. From that time Ireland became once more a contentious political issue with Disraeli trying to find Irish policies on which to divide and destroy the 120 seat Liberal majority. Gibson had the role of