Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (24 October 1828 – 29 November 1916) was an English professor, classical scholar, and Anglican clergyman.

[5][6] Mayor was educated at Rugby School and St John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1851; M.A., 1853).

He became Headmaster of Kensington Proprietary School (1863–69) before returning to higher education at King's College London, where he was Professor of Classical Literature (1870–79) and of Moral Philosophy (1879–83).

[7] Mayor served as the first editor of the Classical Review (1887–94),[7] and published and edited several volumes on the classics and philosophy, including Greek for Beginners Sketch of Ancient Philosophy and Chapters on English Metre.

He edited several works by John Grote (his wife's uncle), including Exploratio Philosophica (1865) and the posthumous An Examination of Utilitarian Philosophy (1870) and A Treatise on the Moral Ideals (1876).