Pop Maynard

Pop Maynard
Bearded old man outside a rustic door wearing a flat cap and smoking a roll-up.
George 'Pop' Maynard. Copthorne, West Sussex, England, 1953
Background information
Birth nameGeorge Maynard
Born(1872-01-06)6 January 1872
Smallfield, Burstow, Surrey, England
OriginSussex
Died29 November 1962(1962-11-29) (aged 90)
Copthorne, West Sussex, England
GenresFolk music

George "Pop" Maynard (6 January 1872 – 29 November 1962) was an English folk singer and marbles champion. The folk singer Shirley Collins considers Maynard to have been the "finest traditional English singer, matched only by Harry Cox".[1]

  1. ^ Collins, Shirley (2018). All in the Downs. London: Strange Attractor Press. p. 148. ISBN 9781907222412.