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Lord May (other)
Lord May may refer to: * Baron May Baron May, of Weybridge in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 June 1935 for the financial expert Sir George May, 1st Baronet. He was for many years secretary of the Prudential Assurance ..., a hereditary title created in 1935 ** George May, 1st Baron May (1871–1946), British financial expert and public servant * Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936–2020), Australian scientist and President of the Royal Society See also * Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough (1815–1886), British constitutional theorist and Clerk of the House of Commons * Lady May (other) {{Disambiguation, tndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron May
Baron May, of Weybridge in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 June 1935 for the financial expert Sir George May, 1st Baronet. He was for many years secretary of the Prudential Assurance Company Prudential plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It was founded in London in May 1848 to provide loans to professional and working people. Prudential has dual primary listings on the London Stock E .... May had already been created a Baronet, of the Eyot, in the Parish of Weybridge in the County of Surrey on 27 January 1931, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Since 2006, the titles are held by his great-grandson. May Baronets (1931) * Sir George Ernest May, 1st Baronet (1871–1946), created Baron May in 1935 Barons May (1935) * George Ernest May, 1st Baron May, 1st Baronet (1871–1946) * John Lawrence May, 2nd Baron May, 2nd Baronet (1904–1950) * Michael St John May, 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George May, 1st Baron May
George Ernest May, 1st Baron May, 1st Baronet (20 June 1871 – 10 April 1946) was a British financial expert and public servant. Early life and career May was the younger son of William May, a grocer and wine merchant, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and his wife Julia Ann Mole. He was educated at Cranleigh School. At the age of 16, he joined the Prudential Assurance Company as a clerk. He was to remain with this firm until his retirement in 1931, serving as the Company Secretary from 1915 until 1931. By 1931, May was blind in one eye and had a cataract in the other. Financial expert May quickly made his mark as a financial expert. During the First World War, he was Manager of the ''American Dollars Securities Committee'' from 1915 to 1918. This committee was set up by the government to oversee the collection of securities held by British firms in the United States, and to make them available to the British government in aid of the war effort. Committee on National Expenditu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert May, Baron May Of Oxford
Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB (8 January 1936 – 28 April 2020) was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2001 until his retirement in 2017. May was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and an appointed member of the council of the British Science Association. He was also a member of the advisory council for the Campaign for Science and Engineering. Early life and education May was born in Sydney on 8 January 1936, to lawyer Henry Wilkinson May and Kathleen Mitchell (née McCredie), who divorced when he was seven years old. His father was of prosperous middle-class Northern Irish origin, and his mother was the daughter of a Scottish engineer. May was educated at Sydney Boys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough
Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough, (8 February 1815 – 17 May 1886) was a British constitutional theorist and Clerk of the House of Commons. His seminal work, ''A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament'' (first published in 1844) has become known as '' Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice'' or simply ''Erskine May'': this parliamentary authority (book of procedural rules) is currently in its 25th revised edition (2019) and is informally considered part of the constitution of the United Kingdom. Following his retirement as Clerk of the House of Commons in May 1886, May was created "Baron Farnborough, of Farnborough, in the county of Southampton" just a week before his death. Since he left no heirs, the barony became extinct, making it the second-shortest-lived peerage in British history. Biography Thomas Erskine May was born in Highgate, Middlesex, on 8 February 1815. He was christened on 21 September 1815 at St Martin-in-the-Fields ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
