Joseph Mayer
| Joseph Mayer FSA | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1803 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1886 | ||||||||||
| Residence | Lord St Liverpool [1854] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | business | ||||||||||
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ESL Council 1858-59 Member [retiring]
ESL Council 1863-64 Member [retiring]
ESL Council 1866-67 Member
ESL Council 1867-68 Member [retiring]
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Joseph Mayer (1803–1886) was an English goldsmith, antiquary and collector.
Joseph Mayer was a silversmith and important collector who lived in Bebington. Much of his collection is now in the hands of National Museums Liverpool.
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External Publications
Mayer was one of the founders of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, of which he was president from 1866 to 1869. He contributed the following among other papers to its Transactions:[3]
· The Mock Mayor at Newcastle-under-Lyme.
· Roscoe and the Influence of his Writings on the Fine Arts.
· Shotwick Church.
· Liverpool Pottery.
· The Arming of Levies in the Hundred of Wirral.
· Addresses as President.
· The Preparations of the County of Kent to resist the Spanish Armada.
· On the Art of Pottery.
In 1876, he printed a volume on Early Exhibitions of Art in Liverpool, with some Notes for a Memoir of George Stubbs
