Richard Mayne (explorer)

Richard Charles Mayne

Rear-Admiral Richard Charles Mayne CB FRGS (7 July 1835 – 29 May 1892[1]) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer, who in later life became a Conservative politician.

Richard Mayne was the son of Sir Richard Mayne KCB (the first joint commissioner of the Metropolitan Police) and the grandson of Judge Edward Mayne. Both his father and grandfather were graduates of Trinity College, Dublin.[2][3] Richard Mayne was educated at Eton. He was a scion of a family that settled at Mount Sedborough[4] in County Fermanagh during the Plantation of Ulster and subsequently at Freame Mount, County Cavan in Ireland.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL MAYNE MP - South Wales Daily News". David Duncan and Sons. 4 June 1892. hdl:10107/3723191. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Alumni Dublinis
  3. ^ A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Fourth edition. BURKE. Sir John Bernard, London: Harrison, 1875, 1886. 2 vol.
  4. ^ Inquisition Ultonium, Fermanagh (33),(40) and (55) Car I
  5. ^ Calendar of State Papers Ireland, 1611-1614, HMPRO, Edited by The Rev C.W. Russell, D.D., and John P. Pendergast, Esq., London: Longman & Co. 1877
  6. ^ The Plantation of Ulster, Rev. George Hill, Belfast: McCaw, Stevenson & Orr, 1877 in particular Pynnars Survey p.481-2
  7. ^ The Fermanagh Story, Pedar Livingston, The Clogher Historical Society, 1969