John Dawson Mayne (1828–1917) was a British lawyer and legal expert who served as acting Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency.

He is remembered as the author of Mayne's Hindu Law regarded as the most authoritative book on the Indian Penal Code.

Mayne served as the Professor of law, logic and moral philosophy at the Presidency College, Madras from 1857 throughout the 1860s.

In England, despite the scandal, Mayne served as a Professor of Common Law at the Inns of Court from 1879 to 1883.

Annie's first husband's name is unknown, but she was the daughter of Charles Craigie-Halkett-Inglis of Hallhill, Fife and Cramond House, near Edinburgh, by his wife Susan, the youngest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks of Lees (1763–1833), 1st Bt., M.P., Lord Provost of Edinburgh.