12 Facts About Cyril Mayne

Cyril Mayne was Dean of Carlisle from 1943 to 1959.

Cyril Mayne was an assistant master at Eastbourne College and Malvern College before being made Deacon in the Church of England on 23 December 1906.

Cyril Mayne became Assistant Curate at All Saints, Poplar in 1912.

Cyril Mayne was posted on attachment to the 29th Division, and left England for the Dardanelles, via Egypt, on 29 April 1915.

Cyril Mayne was promoted temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd class, on 23 November 1916, and was posted as Senior Chaplain to the Forces to the 33rd Division.

Cyril Mayne was finally released from the Army on 21 January 1919, and returned to Bishops' College, Cheshunt as acting Principal.

Cyril Mayne was Rural Dean of Poplar until 1930, in which year he became Vicar of Chiswick.

Cyril Mayne served as Warden of the Order of St Elizabeth of Hungary from 1934 until 1956.

Cyril Mayne retired in 1959 and died in Hayton outside Carlisle on Friday, 20 July 1962.

Cyril Mayne published The Olympian Odes of Pindar in 1906, The Heroes by Charles Kingsley in 1913, Hawthorne's Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales in 1915, and The Holy Birth.

Cyril Mayne was married by the Rev J Gordon Birch, assisted by Canon Down, in Diddlebury Church in Shropshire on 14 January 1930 to Miss Mary Onslow.

Mrs Cyril Mayne died, aged 87 years, in Carlisle in 1990.