[John Eyton Bickersteth]. English classical scholar, born at Baddegama, Ceylon, on the 28th of January 1825, and educated in England at Shrewsbury School and St. Johns College, Cambridge. From 1863 to 1867 he was librarian of the university, and in 1872 succeeded H. A. J. Munro in the professorship of Latin. His best-known work, an edition of thirteen satires of Juvenal, is marked by an extraordinary wealth of illustrative quotations. His Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature (1873), based on E. Hübners Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die römische Litteraturgeschichte is a valuable aid to the student, and his edition of Ciceros Second Philippic is widely used. He also edited the English works of J. Fisher, bishop of Rochester, i. (1876); Thomas Bakers History of St. Johns College, Cambridge (1869); Richard of Cirencesters Speculum historiale de gestis regum Angliae 4471066 (18631869); Roger Aschams Schoolmaster (new ed., 1883); the Latin Heptateuch (1889); and the Journal of Philology. He died at Cambridge on the 1st of December 1910.
His brother, Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (18281916), classical scholar and theologian, was educated at Rugby and St. Johns College, Cambridge, and from 1870 to 1879 was professor of classics at Kings College, London. His most important classical works are an edition of Ciceros De natura deorum (3 vols., 18801885) and Guide to the Choice of Classical Books (3rd ed., 1885, with supplement, 1896). He also devoted attention to theological literature and edited the epistles of St. James (2nd ed., 1892), St. Jude and St. Peter (1907), and the Miscellanies of Clement of Alexandria (with F. J. A. Hort, 1902). From 1887 to 1893 he was editor of the Classical Review. His Chapters on English Metre (1886) reached a second edition in 1901. He died at Kingston Hill, Surrey, on the 29th of November 1916.