Maurice Joseph Summerfield (born 4 February 1940) is a British guitarist, author, publisher, and businessman.

He played the guitar professionally in jazz groups and dance bands in the North East of England in his late teens and early twenties.

[10] In 1978 Summerfield established the Ashley Mark Publishing Company, a mail order business that sold guitar books and music.

Summerfield promoted many concerts, including an annual classical guitar series at the Wigmore Hall in London.

[21] For over 38 years Summerfield was a council member of the UK's Music Industries Association[22] (MIA-formerly AMII and then AMI) general committee.

In 2015 he donated part of his archives to the International Guitar Research Centre (IGRC)[27] at the University of Surrey under the name The Maurice J. Summerfield Collection.