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tours by various authors. The third edition, 1809, contained a reprint, with alterations and omissions, of Mayor's ‘Tour in Wales in 1805,’ which had been published anonymously by Sir Richard Phillipps in 1806, and in that form is now rare. 14. ‘The British Nepos, or … Lives of Illustrious Britons,’ 12mo, 1798 (many editions). 15. ‘Elements of Natural History,’ 12mo, 1799. 16. ‘The Young Gentleman's and Lady's Magazine,’ 2 vols. 12mo, 1799. 17. ‘Natural History,’ 12mo, London, 1800 (2nd edit. 1801). 18. ‘The Lady's and Gentleman's Botanical Pocket Book,’ 12mo, 1800. 19. ‘A Selection of the Lives of Plutarch,’ abridged, 12mo, 1800. 20. ‘The Modern Traveller, with illustrative notes,’ 4 vols. 12mo, 1800. 21. ‘Classical English Poetry for the use of young persons,’ 12mo, 1801, edited in conjunction with Samuel Jackson Pratt. 22. ‘The New Speaker, or English Class Book,’ 12mo, 1801. 23. ‘Universal History, ancient and modern … to the General Peace of 1801,’ 25 vols. 18mo, 1802-1804. 24. ‘The History of Greece,’ 2 vols. 12mo, 1804. 25. ‘The History of Rome,’ 3 vols. 12mo, 1804. 26. ‘The History of England,’ 2 vols. 12mo, 1804. 27. ‘Proverbs, or the Wisdom of all Nations,’ 12mo, 1804. 28. ‘Holmes's Art of Rhetoric made easy,’ improved, 12mo, 1807. 29. ‘A Circle of the Arts and Sciences,’ 12mo, 1808. 30. ‘The Eton Latin Grammar, with explanatory notes,’ 12mo, 1809. 31. ‘General View of the Agriculture of Berkshire,’ 8vo, London 1809, undertaken for the board of agriculture. 32. ‘The Mother's Catechism; or first principles of Knowledge,’ 12mo, 1809. 33. ‘Catechism of General Knowledge,’ 12mo, 1809. 34. ‘The Catechism of Health,’ 12mo, 1809. 35. ‘Collection of Catechisms,’ 2 vols. 12mo, 1810. 36. ‘General Collection of Voyages and Travels,’ 28 vols. 12mo, London 1810. 37. ‘The Garland: a selection of short poems … a new edition,’ 12mo, London 1812. 38. ‘Catechism of the Biography of some of the more eminent Britons,’ 12mo, London 1820. 39. ‘Catechism of the History of Scotland and of Ireland … with an Appendix respecting Wales,’ 12mo, London 1820. Mavor also published a new edition of Blackwall's ‘Introduction to the Classics,’ 12mo, 1809, abridged Bourgoanne's ‘State of Spain,’ 12mo, 1812, and edited with notes and a glossary Thomas Tusser's ‘Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandrie,’ 4to, 1812. To a selection from his works—‘Miscellanies,’ Oxford, 1829—was prefixed his portrait, engraved in mezzotint by C. Turner, A.R.A., after Saxon.

[Gent, Mag. 1838 i. 434-5, 1841 ii. 252; Marshall's Early Hist. of Woodstock Manor; Notes and Queries, passim; Brit. Mus. Cat.]  MAWBEY, JOSEPH (1730–1798), politician, born at Ravenstone, in a house partly in Derbyshire and partly in Leicestershire, on 2 Dec. 1730, was fourth son and youngest child of John Mawbey, who died 4 Sept. 1754, aged 61, by his first wife, Martha, daughter of Thomas Pratt, who died in September 1737. Both were buried at Ravenstone, where Joseph erected in 1764, on the north wall of the chancel, a mural monument to the memory of his parents and ancestors. When about ten years old he was removed to Surrey by his uncle, Joseph Pratt, chief owner of a distillery at Vauxhall, to be trained for the ministry of the English church, but in consequence of the serious illness of another nephew of Pratt, a partner in the distillery, he was taken into the business at the age of seventeen, and carried it on for many years with his brother John. On his uncle's death in 1754, Joseph Mawbey inherited considerable property in Surrey and established himself as a landed proprietor. He was sheriff of the county in 1757, bought the estate of Botleys in Chertsey in 1763, on which he built a large house, and for about twenty-seven years acted, on the whole with considerable success, as chairman of the Surrey quarter sessions. From 1761 to 1768 and from 1768 to 1774 he sat for Southwark, Henry Thrale, Johnson's friend, being his colleague from 1765. In 1774 he contested the county of Surrey, but through the coalition of the interests of four other candidates he was defeated, though 1,390 votes were given for him. On a chance vacancy in June 1775 he was at the head of the poll; he was in the same position in 1780, when he incurred the odium of some of his whig supporters through his refusal to coalesce with Admiral Keppel; and in April 1784 he was returned without a contest. Originally in opposition to toryism, he became a supporter of Pitt; after 1790, however, he ceased to sit in parliament. By his first friends in politics he was created a baronet (30 July 1765), and another distinction on which he plumed himself was his friendship with Speaker Onslow. He died at Botleys, 16 June 1798, and was buried in the family vault in the chancel of Chertsey Church, where his wife and several of his children had preceded him. He married in August 1760 Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of his cousin, Richard Pratt of Vauxhall, and on her brother's death in 1766 she succeeded to considerable property. She died at Botleys, 19 Aug. 1790, having had nine children, four of whom were then alive. The second and last baronet was Sir Joseph Mawbey, who died 28 Aug. 1817. The estate of