MAXEY, WILLIAM, of Surrey; b.; adm.; QS in 1596; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1599, matr. 8 Feb 1599/1600, aged 19, Westminster Student to 1625; BA 1603; MA 1606; BD 1617; ordained; licensed to preach 13 May 1626; Rector of Frome St. Quintin, Dorset 1617; Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucs., from 1624; m. Frances, youngest dau. of Silvester Prowze, Slaughter, Gloucs.; buried Thornbury, Gloucs., 17 Aug 1657.
Maxwell, Eric Anthony, son of John Maxwell; b. 14 Feb. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (W); left July 1939; d. 29 Mar. 2000.
Maxwell, Eric Frederic Mackenzie, son of Sir Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell, Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, by Adela Mary Theodora, daughter of the Rev. Adolphus Theodore Drought, Rector of Clontuskert, co. Galway; b. Nov. 11, 1885; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 28, 1899; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1904, matric. Michaelmas 1904; B.A. 1908; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Jan. 26, 1910; Northern Circuit; Capt. City of London Yeomanry. June 1, 1916, attached M.G. Corps; served in Gallipoli, Salonika, and Palestine in Great War I; Lieut.-Col. O.E.T.A. in Great War II, Cyrenaica and Ethiopia 1941; Colonel 1942; Chief Legal Adviser Political Branch, Middle East, 1942-5; now Registrar, Transport Tribunal; m. Oct. 26, 1909, Muriel, daughter of Henry Kensington Edwardes, of Bonchurch, Isle of Wight.
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.
Maxwell, Luke Greenwood Finlay, son of L. G. Maxwell of Ealing; b. 8 May 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (H); left Apr. 1930; d. 21 Oct. 1969.
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.
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, 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, 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, John Cecil, son of John Ivo Cecil May CMG OBE, dir. British Cotton Corpn., of Beaconsfield, Bucks, and Ellen Evelyn Collins MBE, d. of Marcus Collins; b. 8 Sept. 1926; adm. Sept. 1939 (B); left July 1944; Roy. Tank Regt. in WW2; advertising exec., Connell May & Steavenson; subsequently an antiques dealer; m. 15 Dec. 1962 Jennifer Ann, d. of Clive W. Metcalf of Perth, W. Australia; d. 1 Jan. 2002.