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

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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

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manor of

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, as well as lands in Ireland. He was

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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

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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