sub-fonds K - Mayor family photograph album and other papers

2 photograph albums; 3 files of photographs.
Typescripts: 109 ff; 110 ff; [5 ff.] + 75 ff.

When the rest of the Mayor papers came to the Wren in 1993 from Teresa, Lady Rothschild. John Gibbins was allowed by Lady Rothschild to keep a small selection, mainly photographs, to aid him with the writing of his book on John Grote.

Received from John R. Gibbins, Nov. 2023

1) Mayor Family Photograph Album I - with original images of John Grote and family. Photographs labelled, often with elaborate hand-drawn frames. Numerous illustrations in ink and watercolour of churches, houses, landscapes etc relevant to the figures whose photographs are pasted to the illustrated page.

2) Mayor Family Album II - mostly cartes de visite of Victorian national figures. Order of re-opening service to commemorate restoration of Acton Church, 25 Aug. 1898 at front. Includes foreign and British royalty and nobility, American Civil War figures, academics, writers, clergy, politicians, etc. Includes 2ff of carte de visite sized reproductions of portrait prints of Dutch notables. Loose photographs towards back of book: Dr Carpenter; Parnell; Bradlaugh; two with names not yet made out; Gambetta; G. H. Lewes; photograph labelled 'Giove, detto di Verospi... [Jupiter Verospi]. Reproduction of brass from tomb of Sir Roger de Trumpington pasted in at end

3) File of single photographs of the Mayor family: unidentified silhouette (drawing, not photograph); Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (2 copies, both labelled 'Grandpapa' on back, one incorrectly labelled 'Joseph B. Grote - by John Gibbins?); Alexandrina Mayor (labelled Mrs J. B. Grote on back), with imprinted image identified by John Gibbins as Leslie Stephen; John Barber Lightfoot, bishop of Durham; H. J. Roby; Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (as younger man). Originally in red file supplied by John Gibbins, removed as this was too small.

4) Grey folder of images used in the production of John Gibbins' biography of John Grote. Many of the photographs have notes of identity and ages by Gibbins. Glassine envelope labelled EDC 1160, containing photographs as follows: 'Mrs Joseph Grote; photograph of portrait of Selina Peckwell (later 'Mrs George Grote') by Lawrence; Alice Mayor; Robert Mayor; Robert and Caroline Mayor; Maria Grote (wife of Andrew Macdonald Grote); Isabella Grote (nee Moore, wife of Charles Grote); Joseph Bickersteth Mayor (two photographs, one a vignette of the second); photographs of J. B. Mayor and his wife Alexandrina backing each other on 1 sheet; J. B. Mayor; Robert John Grote Mayor, aged 2, with his father J. B. Mayor; Alice Mayor; Alexandrina Mayor; Lady Affleck. All the preceding carte de visite size. Mix of larger photographs and cartes de visite: Alexandrina Mayor; Brook Foss Westcott, bishop of Durham; John Grote, Alexandrina Grote, and Charlotte La Trobe; W. Wharton [?]; J. B. Mayor; John Grote; John Grote. Larger, loose photographs: George Grote; Benjamin Jowett; Mrs Cameron; bust of George Grote [at Trinity]; unidentified; photograph labelled 'Thomson master of Trinity', identified by Gibbins as 'Joseph Mayor Esq., St. John's College'; Sketch of Francis Grote; H. J. Roby; Leslie Stephen; engraving from sketch portrait of George Grote by Lowes Dickinson.

5) Contents of black box file, now discarded. Daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet [in leather case, believed by John Gibbins to be Andrew Grote, but Andrew Grote the elder died in 1835 and Claudet's studio at King William St did not open until 1844]. Brown envelope labelled 1-13a, containing two photographs of Alexandrina Grote/Mayor, 'A. G. Grote'/'Mrs George Grote', George Grote (all cartes de visite size), photographic reproduction of etching from 'Cambridgeshire Collection' (Cambridgeshire Libraries) showing 'Trumpington Church, Cambridge, Funeral of Mr Fawcett', sheet of paper with photocopies of this and three other images from the Cambridgeshire Collection, large portrait of Joseph Bickersteth Mayor with photograph labelled 'Rome. Models' on back (page from photograph album?). Brown envelope labelled 26-25, containing photographic postcard of John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, photographic reproduction of Selina Peckwell portrait, photographs of Andrew Grote (jr?), George Grote, Alexandrina Mayor (Mrs Joseph Mayor), Arthur Grote, Joseph Grote, J. E. B. Mayor, J. B. Pearson, and a photographic reproduction of portrait of George Grote sr. Brown envelope labelled 64-75, containing photograph of Alice [Mayor], photograph of Alexandrina Mayor with her son Robin as a baby, Robin Mayor, three figures (un-named), Alice and Robin Mayor, Robin and Henry Mayor, 'Dr Hart', Sir John Seeley, four photographs (all of Joseph Mayor? only one labelled as such). Small brown envelope labelled 'John Grote (Photos)', containing photographs of Joseph Bickersteth Mayor and one of Harold Browne.

6) Typed transcript of Robin John Grote Mayor's diary for 1892 covering a trip to Greece with friends. Two copies, each 109 ff. Second copy has typed poem, 'There is a Knowing', at end, 1 f.

7) Beatrice Mayor's autobiographical work, 'One Family of Ten'. Typescript, [5 ff.] + 75 ff., foliated.