Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough
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The Right Honourable The Lord Farnborough KCB PC DCL |
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In office 16 February 1871 – 17 April 1886 |
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| Monarch | Victoria |
| Preceded by | Sir Denis Le Marchant, Bt |
| Succeeded by | Sir Reginald Palgrave |
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Thomas Erskine May 8 February 1815 Highgate, Middlesex United Kingdom |
| Died | 17 May 1886 (aged 71) St George Hanover Square, Middlesex United Kingdom |
Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough, KCB, PC, DCL (8 February 1815 – 17 May 1886) was a British constitutional theorist. This derived from his career at the House of Commons.
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, Westminster with his parents being registered as Thomas and Sarah May. He was educated at Bedford School.
May began his parliamentary service in 1831, at the age of 16, as Assistant Librarian in the House of Commons Library. He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 20 June 1834 and called to the bar on 4 May 1838. May married Johanna Laughton, of Fareham, on 27 August 1839. May became examiner of petitions for private bills in 1846 and from 1847 to 1856 was Taxing Master for both Houses of Parliament. In 1856 he became Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons.
May was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) on 16 May 1860 and promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) on 6 July 1866. On 16 February 1871, he was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons by letters patent.
In 1873, he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple and awarded an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in 1874. In 1880, he was made a Reader of the Middle Temple and appointed to the Privy Council in 1884.
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