Sir Joseph Mawbey

Joseph Mawbey, born at Ravenstone, from the age of ten was raised by an uncle in Surrey. He became a partner in his uncle's brewery, and from him inherited a large property. He was Sheriff in Surrey (1757) and represented Southwark in Parliament, and then Surrey (1768-90); he was created baronet in 1765. Mawbey contributed essays and poems to the Gentleman's Magazine.

TEXT RECORDS:

1787Ode, written at Tunbridge Wells, July 24, 1787.

PUBLICATIONS:

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

privately educated

Member of Parliament

poet

Gentleman's Magazine
London Magazine
Universal Magazine

Thomas Cooke

REFERENCE:

DNB; not NCBEL

"An Account of Sir Joseph Mawbey" European Magazine 11 (March 1787) 139-40 [portrait]; "Memoirs of Sir Joseph Mawbey" New London Magazine 3 (Supplement, 1787) 688-90; obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 68 (June-July 1798) 543, 622; "Life of Sir Joseph Mawbey" Walker's Hibernian Magazine (November 1798) 764-68.

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Sir Joseph Mawbey:

1.	1761  A Lady, "On the Southwark Election" Public Advertiser (31 January 1761).
2.	1765  B., "Tea-Table Conversation. Addressed to Sir Joseph Mawbey" Public Advertiser (30 July 1765).
3.	1768  A Lady, "An Extempore to Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart. at Vauxhall" Westminster Journal (9 April 1768).
4.	1768  B., "To Sir Joseph Mawbey ... on his presenting the Petition of Mr. Wilkes to his Majesty" Public Advertiser (12 December 1768).
5.	1769  Anonymous, "To Sir Joseph Mawbey, on a late affair at Tunbridge" Middlesex Journal (17 October 1769).
6.	1769  Anonymous, "To Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart. on the Defeat of his Enemies" Public Advertiser (18 March 1769).
7.	1772  S. B., "On reading the Scandal lately bestowed on Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart." Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (7 October 1772).
8.	1772  Anonymous, "Nisi-Prius Poetry" Gentleman's Magazine 42 (August 1772) 383.
9.	1773  Anonymous, "On the Birth of a Son and Heir to Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart." Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (28 June 1773).
10.	1773  Anti-Atheist, "Stanzas addressed to Sir Joseph Mawbey, Bart. Member of Parliament for the Borough of Southwark" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (1 July 1773).
11.	1774  A Boroughnian, "A Song (Tune, "God Save the King")" Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser (8 June 1774).
12.	1774  Anonymous, in A Bagatelle. A Dialogue (1774) 13 &n.
13.	1782  Sarah Emma Spencer, "On Sir Joseph Mawbey" General Advertiser and Morning Intelligencer (1 February 1782).
14.	1787  Anonymous, in "Irregular Ode: Tunbridge" Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser (14 September 1787).
15.	1832  John Taylor Esq., in Records of my Life (1832) 2:188.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Sir Joseph Mawbey:

1.	1787  Anonymous, "An Account of Sir Joseph Mawbey" European Magazine 11 (March 1787) 139-40.
2.	1798  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 68 (June 1798) 543.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1791  David Mallet:   Joseph Mawbey, in "Anecdotes of Thomas Cooke" Gentleman's Magazine 61 (Supplement 1791) 1183.
2.	1791  Richard Savage:   Joseph Mawbey, in "Anecdotes of Thomas Cooke" Gentleman's Magazine 61 (December 1791) 1093.
3.	1792  Thomas Cooke:   Joseph Mawbey, in "Anecdotes of Cooke" Gentleman's Magazine 62 (January 1792) 30.