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 304 MAYO 8 and 9 Victoria, cap. 25, the institution was placed on a new foundation, and endowed for the support and education of 500 students, and of 20 senior scholars on the Dunboyne founda- tion. Allowances are made to 250 members of the three higher classes and to the 20 Dun- boyne scholars. Candidates over 16 years of age, and intended for the priesthood in Ire- land, are admitted on the recommendation of their bishops, and no others can be received. The faculty consists of a president, vice presi- dent, four deans, a prefect of the Dunboyne establishment, who is also librarian, a bursar, four professors of moral and dogmatic theol- ogy, and one professor of each of the fol- lowing branches : natural philosophy ; sacred Scripture and Hebrew; ecclesiastical history; logic, metaphysics, and ethics; rhetoric and belles-lettres ; humanity ; English rhetoric and French ; and the Irish language. MAYO) a maritime county of Ireland, in the province of Connaught, bordering on Sligo, Roscommon, Galway, and the Atlantic ocean ; area, 2,131 sq. m. ; pop. in 1871, 245,855. The coasts are indented by numerous bays and har- bors, the principal of which are Killala bay on the north, and Broadhaven, Blacksod, and Clew bays on the west. The surface toward the east is level and fertile, but the western dis- tricts are for the most part barren and moun- tainous, some of the summits attaining an ele- vation of more than 2,500 ft. The only im- portant river is the Moy, but the lakes are nu- merous, the largest being Loughs Corrib, Mask, Conn, Cullin, and Carra, the two first named belonging in part to the county of Galway. The most important minerals are iron, marble, and slate ; but the iron mines, though valuable, are not worked for want of fuel. Oats are the chief crop, but a large part of the land is devoted to pasturage. The principal manufac- tures are linens, flannels, woollen stockings, and straw hats. Chief towns, Castlebar (the capital), Ballina, and Westport. MAYO. I. Amory Dwight, an American cler- gyman, born in Warwick, Mass., Jan. 31, 1823. He passed a year in Amherst college, then studied theology, was ordained, and was set- tled at Gloucester, Mass., over the Independent Christian church. Eight years afterward he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and preached one year to the Congregational society of Liberal Christians. In 1855 he took charge of the first Congregational Unitarian society of Albany, and subsequently of a congregation in Cincin- nati. He afterward became pastor of a church in Springfield, Mass., a post which he still oc- cupied in 1874. He has contributed much to periodicals, and many of his writings in vindi- cation of his peculiar religious tenets appeared in a serial publication, the Albany " Tracts for the Times." Among his works are: "The Balance " (Boston, 1847) ; " Graces and Pow- ers of the Christian Life" (Boston, 1852); "Symbols of the Capital" (New York, 1859) ; and " Religion in Common Schools " (Oincin- MAYOR nati, 1869). He also prepared a selection from the writings of his wife, with a memoir (Bos- ton, 1849). II. Sarah. (EDGARTON), wife of the E receding, born at Shirley, Mass., in 1819, died i 1848. She was married in 1846. During nine years she edited " The Rose of Sharon," an annual, conducted "The Ladies' Repository," and contributed to various periodicals. She wrote "The Palfreys," "Ellen Clifford," and "Memoirs of Mrs. Julia W. Scott;" and com- piled "The Poetry of Women," "The Flower Vase," "Spring Flowers," "The Floral For- tune Teller," and "Fables of Flora." MAYO, Richard Southwell Bonrke, earl of, a Brit- ish statesman, born in Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 21, 1822, assassinated at Port Blair, Andaman islands, Feb. 8, 1872. He graduated M. A. at Trinity college, Dublin, in 1844, made a tour through the north of Europe; and in 1845 published a narrative of his observations in St. Petersburg and Moscow. He was a member of parliament from 1847 to 1866, and chief secretary for Ireland from March to Decem- ber, 1852, again from February, 1858, to June, 1859, and for the third time from July, 1866, to September, 1868, with a seat in the cab- inet. On the death of his father, Aug. 12, 1867, he succeeded as sixth earl of Mayo. He was appointed governor general of India in the latter part of 1868, and arrived at Calcutta in January, 1869. His administration was dis- tinguished by executive ability and by the in- troduction of many reforms. Early in 1872 he set out upon a tour of inspection of the British provinces in India, and had reached the penal settlement of Port Blair when a Mohammedan convict broke through the guards and stabbed him in the back, killing him instantly. MAYO, William Starbnek, an American author, born in Ogdensburgh, N. Y., April 20, 1812. He studied medicine, and after practising for several years made a tour through the Barbary States and Spain. After his return he took up his residence in New York. His principal works are : " Flood and Field, or Tales of Bat- tles on Sea and Land" (1844); "Kaloolah," purporting to be the autobiography of Jonathan Romer, describing his adventures in Africa (1849) ; " The Berber, or the Mountaineer of the Atlas," a romance of adventure similar to " Kaloolah " (1850) ; " Romance Dust from the Historic Placer," a collection of stories chiefly founded on historical incidents (1851) ; and "Never Again," a novel (1873). MAYOR (Lat. major; Fr. maire), the chief municipal officer in a borough or corporate town. The office arose out of the immunities granted to free cities by sovereigns in the mid- dle ages, and in England dates from the reign of Richard I., previous to which time the chief magistrate of a town was called portreeve or boroughreeve. In England mayors are ad- dressed as "your worship," and those of Lon- don, Dublin, and York enjoy the prefix of lord to their titles by special royal grant. In France the maire is the first municipal officer in each