Samuel Ralph Townshend Mayer

Samuel Ralph Townshend Mayer (1841–1880) was a British journalist and writer, the founder of the Free and Open Church Association.

[2] Mayer edited the Churchman's Shilling Magazine, the Illustrated Review from January to June 1871, the Free and Open Church Advocate, 3 vols.

In later life she was a publisher's reader for Macmillan & Co.[7][8] John Watson Dalby was born in 1799: his date of death is unclear, but he lived to age about 80.

[9] He also wrote signed political poetry in The Black Dwarf, a radical newspaper published in the years around 1820.

[10] He succeeded Thomas Byerley as editor of the Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review in 1826, for two years, introducing an anti-Catholic editorial line.

[13] He also took up Samuel Carter Hall's suggestion of a memorial to Hunt, in Kensal Green Cemetery, set up in 1869.

[15] Mayer then added to the published correspondence of Leigh Hunt, in periodicals, with letters involving Benjamin Robert Haydon, Charles Ollier, Thomas Southwood Smith and Lord Brougham.