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            GB-2014-WSA-12056 · Person · 1896-1945

            May, John Seaburne, son of John May, of Kensington by Lucy Mary, daughter of John Hey­wood, of Manchester; b. Feb. 26, 1896; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (G); left Easter 1911; served in Great War I; Lieut. R.F.A. March 14, 1914; resigned his commission on account of ill health Jan. 29, 1916; secretary of Phyllis Court Club, Henley-on-Thames; served in Great War II as Lieut, R.N.V.R., in command of a trawler; wounded; acting Lieut.-Cdr. (Admn.) Dover; invalided for a disability contracted in Great War I; m. June 8, 1944, Evelyn Betty, daughter of Henry Chapman, of Wetherby Mansions, South Kensington; d. of disabilities contracted on active service Dec. 15, 1945.

            John Seaburne May was born at 8, Kensington Court Place, Kensington, London on the 26th of February 1896 the son of John William Freckleton May, a gentleman, and Lucy Mary (nee Heywood) May of 8, Kensington Court Place, Kensington, later of 59, West Cromwell Road, Kensington. He was educated at Wykeham House School, Worthing and at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from the 22nd of September 1910 to Easter 1911. He went on to Bloxham School where he served as a Private in the Officer Training Corps until the 24th of December 1912. On leaving school he went to work as an apprentice engineer at the Vickers Ltd Works at Erith.
            He applied for a commission in the 4th Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on the 13th of November 1913, in an application which recorded that he was 5 feet 10 inches tall and that he weighed 140lbs. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery on the 14th of March 1914. He was mobilised on the outbreak of war and was promoted to Lieutenant on the 17th of October 1914. In December 1914 he was posted to the 5th Kent Howitzer Battery based at Sheerness. On the 7th of December 1914 he applied for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps but, receiving no response, he wrote again on the 7th of March 1915. He was attached to the Royal Flying Corps and was posted to South Harrow on the 5th of May 1915. He obtained a Royal Aero Club Certificate (No. 23699) at the Military School, Ruislip on the 8th of July 1915 while flying a Maurice Farman biplane. He was involved in an aircraft accident the following month in which he sprained his right wrist. A Medical Board, which sat at Caxton Hall reported that he had undergone an examination at Ruislip on the 30th of July 1915 which had revealed that he had a very enlarged heart and a double murmur which had been aggravated by his service in the Royal Flying Corps.
            He was released from the Royal Flying Corps on the 14th of August 1915 and returned to his unit as it was considered that he would not make a suitable pilot on account of his health.
            A Medical Board, which sat at Sevenoaks on the 15th of December 1915, reported that he had been examined at Woolwich Hospital on the 11th of August 1915 and had been diagnosed with hypertrophy and that he had a pulse rate of 120. He was also suffering from anaemia and they concluded that he was “totally unfit for service at home or abroad.” He resigned his commission in the Royal Artillery on the grounds of ill health on the 29th of January 1916.
            He was commissioned as a Flight Sub Lieutenant the Royal Naval Air Service on the 18th of June 1916. He was attached to HMS President II on the 8th of July 1916 and was posted for flight training to Chingford on the same date. His appointment was terminated on the 9th of October 1916 as he had lost his nerve for flying and he left HMS President II the following day. He applied to be reinstated but this was declined on the 30th of October 1916.
            He applied for a regular commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 11th of November 1916. He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the 5th of December 1916 and was seconded for service with the Tank Corps in June 1917. He served as a workshop officer at Woolwich in October 1917 and with J Battalion at Bovington Camp in November 1917. He embarked for service in France at Portsmouth on the 24th of December 1917, landing at Rouen on the 26th of December where he joined the 10th Battalion, Tank Corps in the field. He was based at Bapaume when he was taken ill on the 7th of April 1918 suffering from chronic endocarditus.
            He left his unit on the 8th of April and was evacuated back to England from Calais on the 12th of April, landing at Dover later the same day. He was admitted to Kitchener’s Military Hospital at Brighton the following day where a Medical Board sat on the 11th of June 1918 to report on his case: - “Began with severe diarrhoea – followed by constipation, headache, pains in limbs, no joint involvement. Also shortness of breath. Admitted KMH April 13th 1918. No fever or diarrhoea since. Heart enlarged to left fingers breadth one beyond left nipple line. Evidence of sortie incompetence with possibly mild grade of stendosis as well, also at apex – a soft blowing systolic transmitted to axills. Patient kept at rest for some weeks iv Digitalia and symptoms subsided.”
            A later Medical Board, which sat on the 14th of August 1918, found him to be fit for military service and was released from hospital on the 20th of August. On leaving the army he returned to work as an engineer and later became a salesman.
            He was married at Preston Parish Church, Sussex on the 15th of March 1919 to Helen Olga (nee Morris) of Hove and they lived at 4, Lyndhurst Corner, Hove and later at Grenville Cottage, Keymer in Sussex. They had a son, Ivan Heywood, born on the 4th of December 1921. They lived together until September 1926 when he left the marital home on the grounds that she was converting to Roman Catholicism. She later moved to Villa Botticelli, Via Cortivallo, Lugano Baso from where she filed for divorce on the 25th of May 1928 on the grounds of his regular cohabitation with Hilda Hahn at 79, King’s Head Road, Brighton and at the Peacehaven Hotel, Peacehaven between June 1927 and February 1928. She was granted a Decree Nisi on the 19th of November 1928 and a Decree Absolute on the 4th of June 1929. He had paid no maintenance or child support to her since he had left and she was awarded a sum of £200 per annum by the court on the 13th of November 1929; he was employed by Frigidaire Ltd of King’s Road, Brighton at the time.
            He was re-married at Steyning Registry Office on the 18th of June 1929 to Hilda Theresa (nee Hahn) of Brighton. They lived at 56a, Ship Street, Brighton and had a daughter Mary Ann, born on the 17th of July 1930. By 1935 he was workings as a commission salesman for Louis J. Ford Ltd, builders merchants, of 69, Church Road, Hove.
            On the 13th of May 1937, his wife filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery with an unknown woman at the Hotel Victoria, Westminster on the 26th of February 1937. The divorce was granted later that year. He was married once again, on the 8th of June 1944, to Evelyn Betty “Boo” (nee Chapman) and they had son, John Derek Seaburne, born on the 28th of May 1945.
            He was recalled for service on the outbreak of the Second World War and was commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was placed in command of a Trawler and was wounded in action. He was appointed as an Acting Lieutenant Commander in administration at Dover but was invalided out of the service by a disability contracted during the Great War.
            He died at in a train corridor at Cambridge and was cremated at Cambridge on the 19th of December 1945.
            His death is not recognised by the Commonwealth War Grave Commission as he had left military service at the time of his death.

            GB-2014-WSA-12053 · Person · 1910-1998

            May, George Edward Weller, son of Eliot Francis May of Manchester; b. 28 Mar. 1910; adm. Sept. 1923 (G); left Apr. 1927; 2nd Lieut. RAOC June 1941, transf. REME Oct. 1942 (Maj.), despatches (Burma) May 1946; d. Sept. 1998.

            GB-2014-WSA-12040 · Person · 1858-1915

            MAXWELL, GERALD SPEIRS, seventh son of Charles Francis Maxwell (qv); b. 14 Feb 1858; adm. 22 Jan 1874 (G); left May 1877; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Oct 1877; BA 1880; MA 1885; Cuddesdon Theol. Coll.; ordained deacon 1881, priest 1882 (both Oxford); Curate, Wantage, Berks., 1881-94; Chaplain, St. Mary’s Home, Wantage 1888-94, Sub-Warden 1894-6; Superior-Gen., Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cowley, Oxford, from 1907; d. 4 Dec 1915.

            GB-2014-WSA-12030 · Person · 1803-1889

            MAURICE-BONNOR, RICHARD BONNOR, eldest son of John Bonnor, Bry-y-Gwalie, Oswestry, Shropshire, and Jane, only child of Rev. Robert Maurice, Bry-y-Gwalie; b. 2 Oct 1803; adm. 19 Sep 1817 (G); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1821; BA 1825; MA 1852; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Jun 1823; assumed additional surname of Maurice; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1828 (both St. Asaph); Perpetual Curate of Trinity Church, Oswestry, Shropshire 1837-42; Vicar of Ruabon, Denbighshire 1842-59; Cursal Canon of St. Asaph 1850-9, Dean 1859-86, Chancellor 1860-85; m. 1st, 20 Jun 1827 Anna Maria, second dau. of Matthew Harrison (qv); m. 2nd, 1833 Rose, youngest dau. of William Dempster, Skibo Castle, Sutherland; m. 3rd, 8 Jun 1847 Ellen, youngest dau. of John Wood, Worthing, Sussex; d. 25 Mar 1889.

            GB-2014-WSA-12018 · Person · 1817-1889

            MAULE, SIR JOHN BLOSSET, second son of George Maule (qv); b. 29 May 1817; adm. 17 Jun 1829 (G); left 1831; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 4 Jun 1835; BA 1839; MA 1846; adm. Inner Temple 13 Jan 1844, called to bar 29 Jan 1847, Bencher 16 Nov 1866, Treasurer 1882; North-Eastern Circuit; Recorder of Leeds 19 Apr 1861-80; QC 5 Jul 1866; Director of Public Prosecutions 1880-4; knighted by Queen Victoria 7 Dec 1882, on occasion of opening of new Law Courts; d. unm. 20 Oct 1889.

            Maule, Henry, 1822-1896
            GB-2014-WSA-12017 · Person · 1822-1896

            MAULE, HENRY, son of George Maule (qv); b. 31 Mar 1822; adm. 2 Oct 1833 (G); left Dec 1838; entered Commissariat as Clerk Mar 1844; Deputy Assistant Commissary-Gen., Tasmania 28 Dec 1847, Assistant Commissary-Gen. 12 May 1860; retd. 1 Nov 1869; of Twickenham, Middlesex; m. (by 1881) Hannah Elizabeth, widow of Sir John Campbell, Bart., Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Lieut. -Gov., St. Vincent, and dau. of James Macleod, Rasay, Western Isles; d. 21 Sep 1896.

            GB-2014-WSA-12015 · Person · 1811-1850

            MAULE, GEORGE BENJAMIN, son of George Maule (qv); b. 31 Mar 1811; adm. 16 Jan 1824 (G); left Jul 1828; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1828, Canoneer Student 1832 – still 1847; 1st cl. Classics and 1st cl. Mathematics 1832; BA 1833; MA 1835; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 May 1833, called to bar 11 Jun 1838; killed by the overturning of the mail diligence into the sea near Oropesa, Spain 14 Sep 1850.

            Maude, Arthur, 1842-1913
            GB-2014-WSA-12008 · Person · 1842-1913

            MAUDE, ARTHUR, son of Rev. Thomas Maude, Rector of Hasketon, Suffolk, and Sibylla Jane, dau. of William Green, Stanway Hall, Essex; b. 6 Dec 1842; adm. 24 jan 1856 (G); QS 1857; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1861, matr. 23 May 1861; BA 1865; MA 1868; ordained deacon 1871 (Oxford), priest 1876 (Norwich); Assistant Master, Radley Coll. 1867-76; Rector of Burgh St. Andrew, Norfolk, from 1876; [unm. in 1881]; d. 7 May 1913.

            GB-2014-WSA-11986 · Person · 1878-1914

            Mathews, Walter Vivanti Dewar, son of E. Dewar Mathews, of Wandsworth, Surrey; b. March 27, 1878; adm. Sept. 25, 1890 (G); left . July 1894 2nd Lieut. R.A. June 23, 1898; Lieut. Feb. 16, 1901; Capt. Jan. 23, 1904; Major Oct. 30, 1914; served in South Africa 1899- 1901 and in Great War I; d. 9 Dec. 1914.

            GB-2014-WSA-11972 · Person · 1912-2019

            Masterman, Neville Charles, son of Rt. Hon. Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman PC MP, and Lucy, d. of Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir Neville Lyttelton PC GCB GCVO, Chief of the General Staff, C-in-C Ireland, and Governor of Chelsea Hosp.; b. 28 Nov. 1912; adm. Sept. 1926 (G); left July 1931; Christ’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1931, BA 1934, MA 1954; asst. master Lindisfarne Coll. Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 1935-7; lecturer in History Eorvos Kollegium Budapest, Hungary 1937-40; RA, Intell and Educ. Corps 1940-5 (Sgt); lecturer Univ. Coll. Swansea 1946-80; author of J. M. Ludlow: The Builder of Christian Socialism 1964; wrote extensively on Hungarian literature, history and politics; celebrated his hundredth birthday in 2012; m. 1947 Brenda, d. of John William Bywater Tongue of Tipton, Staffs; d. 10 Jan. 2019