E. J. May

House at Elstree designed by Edward John May, and Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1887.

Edward John May (1853–1941) was an English architect.

Career

He 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. He 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 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.

He died at Chislehurst on 16 March 1941.[3]

"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

Works 1900 – 1930

Other work

References

  1. Bedford Park – The First garden Suburb, T Affleck Greeves, 1975
  2. 1 2 Unpublished obituary by K A Pite held at RIBA
  3. Architects' Journal May 1941, p124
  4. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1881
  5. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1882
  6. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1883
  7. Victorian and Edwardian Hampstead, Alistair Service, London, 1989
  8. Harmonious Houses in Exquisite Surroundings, Cromer Preservation Society, 2004
  9. The Builder, 18 December 1884
  10. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1884
  11. 1 2 The Builder, vol 49, p303, 1885
  12. 1 2 Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1885
  13. The Architect, 12 November 1886
  14. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1887
  15. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1889
  16. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1890
  17. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1891
  18. The Builder, 9 July 1892
  19. 1 2 Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1892
  20. The Builder, 14 December 1895
  21. Academy Architecture, 1898
  22. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1894 and 1898
  23. Exhibited at Royal Academy, 1900
  24. Modern Cottage Architecture, Maurice B Adams (editor), 1904
  25. Architectural Review, 1910
  26. The Builder, 14 May 1910
  27. The Architect and Building News, 1928
  28. The Cabinet maker and Art Furnisher, 2 July 1883, p2

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