 James Mortimer Maynard

James Mortimer Maynard (30 Aug 1804 - 9 September 1874) was an influential money-lender and businessman of the Cape Colony, and a founding Member of the Cape Legislative Assembly, where he was elected to represent the Cape Division (southern Cape Peninsula) constituency.James Maynard was the son of Levi and Sarah Maynard, staunch Wesleyan settlers from Huntingdonshire, who arrived in the Cape in 1820.