MAY, George Augustus Chichester (son of Edward May, rector of Belfast). b. Belfast 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury and Magd. coll. Camb., fellow; B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; called to Irish bar Jany. 1844; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865, bencher of King’s Inns 1873; legal adviser at Dublin castle March 1874; attorney general 27 Nov. 1875; lord chief justice of Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; P.C. Ireland 8 Feb. 1877; transferred to high court of justice as president of queen’s bench division, retaining title of lord chief justice 1 Jany. 1878, resigned Jany. 1887; edited The Irish Reports. Common law series, vol. 1 1868 and Equity series, vol. 1 1868; edited with Wm. Woodlock The Irish Reports. Common law series, vol. 2 1869 and Equity series, vol. 2 1869. d. Lisnavagh, co. Carlow 15 Aug. 1892. Graphic 3 Sep. 1892 p. 274, portrait.
MAY, Henry William (son of George May, V. of Liddington, Wilts., d. 24 Dec. 1861). b. 1843; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch, Oxford, B.A. 1865; barrister L.I. 5 June 1868; equity draftsman and conveyancer; tutor to Legal council of education 1873–6; author of A treatise on the statutes of Elizabeth against fraudulent conveyances, the bills of sale, registration acts and the law of voluntary disposition of property 1871, 2 ed. 1887; edited with R. H. Leach and F. G. A. Williams, H. W. Seton’s Forms of decrees, judgments and orders in the high court of justice and courts of appeal having reference to the Chancery division, 4th ed. 2 vols. in 3 vols. 1877–9. d. Alum bay, Freshwater, Isle of Wight 30 June 1878.
MAY, Huntly, stage name of William Huntly May Macarthy. b. Tipperary; actor; strolling theatrical manager and a very eccentric man; lessee of Exeter and Dundee theatres; m. 1846 Madame Castaglioni an actress who was living at 393 York road, Wandsworth in 1881. d. Stokesley, Yorkshire 9 April 1866. The Era 22 April 1866 p. 6, 2 July 1881 p. 4 and 9 July 1881 p. 5.
MAY, John. The first superintendent of Metropolitan police 1829, superintendent of A or Whitehall division to death. d. 23 Oct. 1855.
MAY, Robert Charles (son of Charles May, F.R.S., partner in firm of Ransome and May of Ipswich, engineers). b. Ampthill, Beds. 5 April 1829; apprenticed to Ransome & May; a civil engineer 1853 to death; A.I.C.E. 5 March 1861, M.I.C.E. 16 Feb. 1864; consulting engineer and arbitrator in engineering disputes; an assessor of the board of trade; an inspecting engineer for railway materials for India; engineer to Galizzi sulphur mines, Sicily, and to the Giona sulphur mines. d. Marseilles 20 July 1882. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxiii 367–8 (1883); Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xliii 180 (1883).
MAY, Sir Stephen. b. 1781; M.P. Belfast 1812–18; knighted by earl Whitworth at Dublin 1816; claimed to be a baronet of Ireland. d. Belfast 1851.
MAY, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1 Baron Farnborough. b. London 8 Feb. 1815; private pupil of Dr. Brereton at Bedford gr. sch. 1826–31; assistant librarian of house of commons 1831; barrister M.T. 4 May 1838, bencher 21 Nov. 1873 to death; examiner of petitions for private bills 1846; taxing master for both houses of parliament 1847–56; clerk assistant of house of commons 1856, clerk of house of commons 3 Feb. 1871 to April 1886; C.B. 16 May 1860, K.C.B. 6 July 1866; a comr. on digest of the law 22 Nov. 1866; president of Statute law revision committee 1866–84; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 17 June 1874; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; created Baron Farnborough of Farnborough in the county of Southampton 10 May 1886; author of A practical treatise on the law privileges, proceedings and usage of parliament 1844, 9 ed. 1883, translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian and Japanese; The constitutional history of England since the accession of George III. 2 vols. 1861–3, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1871; Democracy in Europe, a history 2 vols. 1877, and of many articles in Penny Cyclopædia, Edinburgh Review and other periodicals, d. Westminster Palace 17 May 1886. bur. Chippenham churchyard, Cambs. 24 May, memorial window in St. Margaret’s church, Westminster, his bust by Bruce Joy unveiled by the speaker in house of commons 6 March 1890. Biograph, Jany. 1882 pp. 14–19; New monthly mag. cxvi 1110, 1175 (1879), portrait; Pump Court, iii 105, 156, portrait.
Note.—His peerage of Farnborough existed only six days, probably the shortest duration of any peerage; the barony of Marjoribanks lasted 7 days 12 to 19 June 1873.
MAYALL, John Edwin. Artist at 433 Strand, London 1848–52; photographer at 224 Regent st. 1852 to death; had been paid in 1870 upwards of £35,000 by Marion and Co. of Soho square for cartes de visite of the royal family, d. 1867.
MAYD, William (2 son of rev. Wm. Mayd, R. of Withersfield, Suffolk). b. 1830; ed. at Eton, matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 18 May 1848; barrister I.T. 9 June 1854; a revising barrister to death; recorder of Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 1877 to death, d. Willow Bank, Withersfield, Suffolk 15 Dec. 1892.