Lemon, MARK

Lemon, MARK, born in London, 30th November 1809, was educated at Cheam near Epsom, and in 1835 wrote a farce, the first of a long series of melodramas, operettas, &c. He produced, moreover, several novels (the best, perhaps, Falkner Lyle, 1866), children's stories, and essays, and appeared as a lecturer and public reader. In 1841 he helped to establish Punch (q.v.), of which for the first two years he was joint-editor with Henry Mayhew, and thereafter sole editor till his death, which took place at Crawley, Sussex, 23d May 1870. See Joseph Hatton's Reminiscences of Mark Lemon (1871).