Sir Algernon May (died 25 July 1704) was an English member of Parliament, for the constituency of

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, in the late 17th century. He was the fifth son of Sir

Humphrey May Sir Humphrey May (1573 – 9 June 1630) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1605 and 1629. Career May was the fourth son of Richard May, Merchant Taylor of London. He matriculated from St John's Colleg ...

of Carrow Priory in Norfolk,

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, 1618–1630. A fortunate marriage in 1662 to Dorothy Reynolds, the widow of a Cromwellian soldier, James Calthorpe, brought him the Suffolk manor of

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, as well as lands in Ireland. He was Equerry to

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from 1662 to 1668, and Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London from 1669 to 1686. May stood for Windsor, where his younger half-brother,

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, was

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, at the general election of 1689. On his petition the election of Sir Christopher Wren was declared void, and he was returned on the corporation franchise at a contested by-election. He lived for a while in east

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, and it is thought that the thoroughfare

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(once May's Hill) was named after him.Railway London Bridge to Gravesend. Maze Hill
''Edith's Streets''. Accessed: 18 August 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:May, Algernon 1704 deaths English MPs 1689–1690