Horace Mayhew (journalist)

Horace Mayhew (1816 – 30 April 1872) was an English journalist, a writer of humorous sketches and a sub-editor of the magazine Punch.

He was born in London, son of Joshua Dorset Joseph Mayhew, a lawyer, and his wife Mary Ann Fenn.

[2] From 1852, the year it passed under Douglas Jerrold's editorship, he became a frequent contributor to Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper.

[2] Mayhew married in 1868 Emily Sarah Fearon, the widowed daughter of an army officer; they had no children.

[1] John Andrew Hamilton wrote: "He was a handsome, captivating man, a brilliant talker and raconteur, and was very popular in society.