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Wales island, Singapore and Malacca 1866; On the interpretation of statutes 1875, 2 ed. 1883; Our Malay conquests 1878; author with J. J. Lowndes and C. E. Pollock of Reports of cases in the queen’s bench practice court 1850–1851, 2 vols. 1851–2; author with J. J. Lowndes of Bail court cases 1852–1854, vol. 1 parts 1–5, 1852–4. _d._ Grasse, Alpes Maritimes 14 Jany. 1893. MAXWELL, WILLIAM (son of Alexander Maxwell of 21 Bell yard, Fleet st. London, law publisher, who _d._ 1850). _b._ 1817 or 1818; law publisher at 21 Bell yard 1850 to death; published Davidson’s Precedents and forms in conveyancing, and other important legal works. _d._ Temple Sheen, Mortlake 28 May 1882. MAXWELL, WILLIAM JOHN LEIGH. _b._ Dublin 24 May 1838; entered office of sir John Macneill at Dundalk 1861; resident engineer Portadown Junction railway works; made surveys of Euphrates valley railway 1870; engineer of Beyrout water works 1871; A.I.C.E. 1877; author of Letters of an engineer while on service in Syria in connection with the proposed Euphrates Valley railway and the Beyrout water works 1880, with portrait. _d._ on voyage from Naples to England 22 Aug. 1880. _bur._ at sea. MAXWELL, WILLIAM ROBERT (1 son of Hamilton Maxwell of Shrub hill house, Mid Lothian). 2 lieut. R. Marines 11 July 1832; served in China 1841; adjutant at Woolwich 1842–8; lieut.-col. R.M. 11 Aug. 1859, col. commandant 13 June 1865; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 13 April 1879; lived at Dover for many years. _d._ Brighton 21 March 1892. MAY, ALICE. _b._ 1847; appeared as Marie in the Daughter of the regiment, at Melbourne in 1872; with her own operatic company toured in Australia, New Zealand and India; played in the Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at Liverpool; acted at the Gaiety and Opera Comique theatres, London; played Jeanne in Lacome and Reece’s comic opera Jeanne Jeannette and Jeanneton at Alhambra 28 March 1881; _m._ Louis Raymond. _d._ 16 Aug. 1887. _Illust. sporting and dramatic news 20 Oct. 1877 pp._ 97, 107, _portrait_. MAY, CHARLES (son of a Friend). _b._ Alton, Hants. 1800; apprenticed to Mr. Sims of Stockport, chemist; a chemist and millwright at Ampthill, Beds.; partner with Messrs. Ransome of Ipswich, agricultural implement makers 1836; built an observatory for his own use at Ipswich; F.R.A.S.; M.I.C.E. 1846, member of council 1848–55; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; removed to London 1851; experimented on the strength of iron; invented compressed tree-nails for fixing chairs to sleepers; introduced the process of chilling for pivots of large instruments. _d._ 3 Great George st. Westminster 10 Aug. 1860. _Proceedings of royal society_, _xi_ 10 (1860); _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_ 148 (1861). MAY, EDWARD COLLETT. _b._ Greenwich 29 Oct. 1806; studied under Adams, Potter and Crivelli; professor of vocal music at Queen’s college, London; organist at Greenwich hospital 1837–69; famed as an organist and teacher; author of Progressive vocal exercises for daily practice 1853. _d._ about 16 Jany. 1887. _Life of John Hullah_ (1886). NOTE.--His daughter Florence May, pianist, is the composer of Six songs for the pianoforte 1880 and other music. MAY, EDWARD HARRISON (son of rev. Edward Harrison May). _b._ England 1824; taken to U.S. of America when young; studied art under Daniel Huntington and under Couture in Paris 1851; capt. in the American ambulance during Franco-Prussian war, and a surgeon 1870–1; an associate of the National academy 1876; painted The dying brigand, now in Philadelphia academy of fine arts; By the rivers of Babylon, now in the Century club, New York; and Mary Magdalen at the sepulchre, now in the Metropolitan museum, New York. _d._ Paris 17 May 1887. _Appleton’s American Biog. iv_ 272 (1888). 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