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* MAY. 212 MAY. MAY, .Jciii.N Wilder (1819-83). An Ameri- can lawyc'i-, born at Atlleboro, Mass. He gradu- ated at the University of Vermont in 184G, was admitted to tlie Massaehiisetts bar in IH.'jl. and practiced in Koxbury and Boston. In 1807 he was elected to the Legislature and l)ecame dis- trict attorney of Suffolk County. May was judge of the iioslon municipal court (187.'!) ; editor of Angell's lAmitulioHS (1870), (ireenleafs I-h-i- deiicc (1870), and Stephens's Diyi'st of Eridiiirc (1877); and author of The Law of Insurance (1874-82, and often) and The Law of Crimes (1881). MAY, Phil (1804-190.3). An English illustra- tor, born in Leeds. He left Leeds for London as a mere lad, and spent several years with a com- pany of wandering actors. Afterwards he at- tracted attention by his drawings in Saint Hiephen's Ki-view, and in 1884 went to Australia, where he worked on the Stidiicy liuUelin until 1889. In 1891 he imblished' TItr I'anson and the Painter, a series of remarkable sketches. Later his work was produced in the Daily Graphic; Black and White; the (Iraphic, for which he trav- eled in -Vmerica ; and the Sketch; and in 1895 he took Du Maurier's place on the .stalf of Punch. By tlio elimination of every unnecessary line, by a felicitous composition, a high technical excel- lence in the use of light and shade, and the keenest observation and unflagging humor. May holds a place among celebrated Knglisb carica- turists. His specially is Last London, and the types lie made famous are the freipienters of the r.ice-cour.se, the prize-ring, and the stage, and the 'putter-snipes,' the children of the slums. Phil May's (lutter-Snipes ( 189f>), a collection of draw- ings, contains much of his best work. In these his talent is at its ripest, and the quality of sympathy and kindliness, never lacking in his conception, is especially prominent. Other publi- cations 1)V him are Phil May's Annual from 1892, and Phil May's Sketch Book (1897, .'50 ear- toons ) . MAY, Sami-el Joseph (1797-1871). An American reformer, prominent as an abolitionist in the anti-slavery struggle. He was born in Boston: graduated at Harvard in 1817; stud- ie<I for the ministry in the Harvard Divinity School under Dr. Ware: was ordained in 1822; and soon afterwards became pastor of tlie I'ni- tarian Thurch in Brooklyn, Conn. In IS.SO he hecame a diseijile of William Lloyd Oarri- son, and in 1832 joined the first New F.ngland anti-slavery society. When Prudence Crandall (q.v. ) was persecute<l for opening her school at Canterbury, Conn., to girls of negro blood, he became her friend and champion, and later gave her advice nnd assistance when she was arrested and imprisoned. In the same year. 183.3, he was a delegate to the convention at Philadelphia which founded the first American anti-slnverv so- ciety, and was niade one of the vice-presidents. In 1834 he resigned his pastorate and became gen- eral agent of the Massachusetts. ti-Slaverv So- ciety. In October. 183.5. while giving n series of lectures in 'ermont. May was five times molibeil, once while addressing an audience in the ball of the House of Representatives at Monlpelier. The next year he became pastor of the Tinitnrian Church in South Scituate. Mass., nnd remained there until 1S42, when he took charge for three years of the f!irls' Xormal School at Lexington, !Mass. In 1845 he became pastor of a Unitarian society at Syracuse, N. V., and continued to hold that position until three years before his death. In 1851 he assisted in the famous rescue of the slave '.lerry,' and for this oHense against the Fugitive Slave Law he and seventeen others were ancsteil on warrants issued by the United States District Court at Auburn. Anxi<nis to test the question lieforc the ccnirts, Jlay and two other particiijants in the rescue issued a public decla- ration to the effect that they had assisted in the rescue of Jerry, that they were ready to stand trial, but would base tlieir defense iipon the "unconstitutionality and extreme wickedness of the Fugitive Slave Law." They were, however, never brought to trial. By temperament May was averse to strife and possessed a sunny temper and a gentle disposition, Ijul. being, in his own words, "a Unitarian, a non-resistant, a woman's rights man, an anti-capital punishment man. and a Garrison abolitionist," it fell to his lot to be engaged in many controversies. He published an interesting volume entitled Some l{ecollcetion» of Our Anli-Slai-ery Conflict (1809). Consult Mul- ford (ed.). Memoir of Samuel Joseph May (Bos- ton, 1873; newed. 1882). MAY, Thomas (159.5-l(r>n). An English his- « torian and poet. He was born at ilayfield, Sus- sex, England, of an ancient family: graduated B... from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1012; became a member of Ciray's Inn, London, and was admitted to the bar, l)ut. owing to a dcfei-t in his speech, did not practice law. lie de- voted him.self to literature and published the tragedies of Antigone and Aijrippina, a comedy entitled 77ic Heir, and other works. By special command of Charles L, with whom he was a favor- ite, he published two poems on the reigns of Henry 11. and Edward III. He translated into ICnglish vcr.se Selected Epigrams of Martial, 'ergirs droryies, and Lucan's Pharsulia. to the last of which he wrote a continuation in English and Latin. During the Parliamentary troiil>les he became a Ke]niblican. He was secretary to Cromwell during the Civil War an<l was employed to write its history. Pulilished originally in Latin, and translated into English in 1050, his History of the Knylish Parliament, begun Novem- ber, 1040, was edited by Baron Mas^rcs. and translated into I'lench by Cuizot (1S12: new eil. 1853). May dicil Noveinber 13. 1050, and was buried in Westminster .bbey, but soon after the Restoration liis body was disinterred and thrown info a pit in the adjoining Saint Margaret's churcliyaril. MAY, TiiOMAis Eii.sKiXE, Lord Farnborongh (lS15-8(il. An English ccmstitufioniil jurist. He was born in London, February 8, 1815, was educated at Bedford School, beeaine assistant librarian of the House of Commons in 1831, and entered the bar in 1838. In 1844 he published a treatise on the Lair. Pririleyes. Proreediniis. and I'xarirs of Parliament (10th ed, 1893), which has become a standard authority on |)arliamentary law and lias been translated into French, (lermnn, Hungarian, Italian. Spani-h. and .lapnnese. In 1S40 he was made examiner of jietifions for pri- vate bills, nnd the next year he was nppointed taxing innster to the House of Commons, of which he becnine clerk in 1871. In 180103 he published The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George III., 1700- tSHO.