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MAY, HENRY, eldest son of Thomas May, Deal, Kent; b. 2 Mar 1803; adm. 2 Jul 1817; left 1820; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1823; migrated to St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 14 Oct 1825, matr. Mich. 1825. [Perhaps Henry Daily May, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster 15 May 1803, son of Thomas May and Elizabeth --- (IGI)]. [Evidently brother or close kin to Thomas May (qv), adm. same day].

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.

MAY, FLORENTIUS, brother of William Vassall May (qv); b.; adm. 15 Jan 1777.

MAY, FLORENTIUS, son of Rev. William May, Rector of Kingston, Jamaica, and his second wife Bathsua, sister of Florentius Vassall (qv); b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1745; d. at sea on voyage to Boston, North America 4 Jun 1747.

MAY, ERNEST HORATIO, son of Rev. Edmund May, Vicar of Parwich, Derbs., and Mary Elizabeth, second dau. of Rev. James Hay Waugh, Rector of Corsley, Wilts.; b. 18 Mar 1851; adm. 11 Feb 1862 (James'), BB; QS 1866; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1870 (with Triplett), adm. pens. 2 Jun 1870; BA 1874; MA 1884; ordained deacon 1875, priest 1876 (both Bath & Wells); Curate, Portishead, Somerset 1875-7; Vicar of Edale, Derbs., 1877-80; Vicar of Parwich, Derbs., with Alsop-en-le-Dale, 1880-1903; Rector of Bartlow, Cambs., from 1903; m. 30 Jan 1878 Anne Elizabeth Charlotte Sherwill; d. 22 Jan 1918.

MAY, BARTHOLOMEW, son of Thomas May, Norton, Kent, and Mary, dau. of Lawrence Greenstreet, Teynham, Kent; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston (J. Peile, Biog. Reg. of Christ’s Coll. , i, 413); Christ’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Jul 1631, aged 18, matr. Mich. 1631; of Rodmersham, Kent; m. 1st, 18 Mar 1632/3 Elizabeth, dau. of John Hill, Cambridge; m. 2nd, lic. 7 Apr 1646 Katherine, widow of Stephen Tomlyn, Sittingbourne, Kent, and dau. of William Terry; 3rd, Elizabeth, dau. of Joshua Pix, Milton, Kent; buried Rodmersham, Kent 10 Mar 1686/7.

MAY, ARTHUR, second son of Thomas May, Lisbon, wine merchant, and Margaret, dau. of Arthur Stert MP, Membland, Devon; b. 4 Apr 1727; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1738 (Preston's); d. 12 Apr 1739.

MAY, ---; b.; in school list 1795.

MAXWELL, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Maxwell, Carriden, Linlithgowshire, and Grizel, daughter of John Stewart MP, Castle Stewart, Wigtownshire; b. 3 Jan 1768; adm. 9 Sep 1782; left 1784; Edinburgh Univ. 1786; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 7 May 1787; MA 16 Jun 1791; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1787 [check]; of Carriden, Linlithgowshire (estate sold by him in 1814); MP Linlithgow Burghs 1807-12; m. 21 Mar 1799 Mary Charlotte, third dau. of Hon. Edward Bouverie MP, Delapre Abbey, Northants; buried 7 Sep 1833. [This identification of William Maxwell, adm. 1782, with William Maxwell of Carriden, first made in History of Parliament, House of Commons 1790-1820, is conjectural, but the OW of this name was certainly an individual of sufficient substance to serve as Steward of the Anniversary Dinner in 1797].

Maxwell, Malcolm Theodore, brother of Eric Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell (q.v.); b. Aug. 15, 1888; adm. from George Watson Institution as K.S. Sept. 26, 1901; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1907, matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; M.A. 1919; private secretary to Governor of Fiji 1913-4; 2nd Lieut. R.F.A. (Spec. Res.) Aug. 7, 1915; Lieut. July 1, 1917; served in France 1915-9; M.C. July 18, 1917; called to the bar at Lincolns Inn. June 28, 1922; d. 1935.