Edward John May (1853–1941) was an English architect.
Career
E.J. May was the last pupil of
Decimus Burton. He then went to the assist Eden Nesfield who was at the time working in partnership with
Richard Norman Shaw. He entered the
Royal Academy Schools in 1873, and won the RIBA Pugin Prize in 1876.
Shaw commended May as Estate Architect at
Bedford Park, London in 1880[1] and May held that post until 1885. He lived at 6 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park from 1881 to 1890.
He was architect to the
Church of England Waifs and Strays Society and to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution. His office was at Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London.[2] He retired in 1932.
From the 1890s he was a resident of
Chislehurst, Kent, where he was responsible for a wide range of houses. He lived firstly on Willow Grove, before moving to a house of his own design in 1913. At Chislehurst, he was a Church Warden at the Church of the Annunciation, Chislehurst High Street as well as Secretary of the Parish Nurse Fund.
"To know E. J. May was an exhilarating tonic, the serious and yet lighthearted activity of thought and action, the quick movement to keep an appointment or to see you on your homeward way was characteristic."[2]
Works up to 1900
1870s – 1880s Houses at Bedford Park
1877 No. 1 The Avenue, Bedford Park
1879 Club House, Bedford Park
1880 No 12 Blenheim Drive, Bedford Park (attrib)
1880 Nos 17 – 19 Marlborough Crescent, Bedford Park (attrib)
1900–05 Branksome Place (formerly Hilders, then Branksome Hilders), Hindhead Rd, Haselmere, Surrey, for Sir
Charles McLaren, bt. (later 1st Baron Aberconway)
1900–05 Honeyhanger, Haselmere, Surrey, for Sir
Charles McLaren, bt. (later 1st Baron Aberconway)
1900–05 10 Palace Green, London
1904 Nos 165 – 169 Lower Camden, Chislehurst
1904 New Entrance Lodges, Toddington, Gloucestershire[25]
1905 Ballindune, Weydown Road, Haslemere
1906–07 Saxby's St Paul's Cray Road, Chislehurst (further alts)
Edward John May (1853–1941) was an English architect.
Career
E.J. May was the last pupil of
Decimus Burton. He then went to the assist Eden Nesfield who was at the time working in partnership with
Richard Norman Shaw. He entered the
Royal Academy Schools in 1873, and won the RIBA Pugin Prize in 1876.
Shaw commended May as Estate Architect at
Bedford Park, London in 1880[1] and May held that post until 1885. He lived at 6 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park from 1881 to 1890.
He was architect to the
Church of England Waifs and Strays Society and to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution. His office was at Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London.[2] He retired in 1932.
From the 1890s he was a resident of
Chislehurst, Kent, where he was responsible for a wide range of houses. He lived firstly on Willow Grove, before moving to a house of his own design in 1913. At Chislehurst, he was a Church Warden at the Church of the Annunciation, Chislehurst High Street as well as Secretary of the Parish Nurse Fund.
"To know E. J. May was an exhilarating tonic, the serious and yet lighthearted activity of thought and action, the quick movement to keep an appointment or to see you on your homeward way was characteristic."[2]
Works up to 1900
1870s – 1880s Houses at Bedford Park
1877 No. 1 The Avenue, Bedford Park
1879 Club House, Bedford Park
1880 No 12 Blenheim Drive, Bedford Park (attrib)
1880 Nos 17 – 19 Marlborough Crescent, Bedford Park (attrib)
1900–05 Branksome Place (formerly Hilders, then Branksome Hilders), Hindhead Rd, Haselmere, Surrey, for Sir
Charles McLaren, bt. (later 1st Baron Aberconway)
1900–05 Honeyhanger, Haselmere, Surrey, for Sir
Charles McLaren, bt. (later 1st Baron Aberconway)
1900–05 10 Palace Green, London
1904 Nos 165 – 169 Lower Camden, Chislehurst
1904 New Entrance Lodges, Toddington, Gloucestershire[25]
1905 Ballindune, Weydown Road, Haslemere
1906–07 Saxby's St Paul's Cray Road, Chislehurst (further alts)