MAY. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Augustus Charles May passed his examination in 1830; and obtained his commission 28 June, 1838. His succeeding appointments were – 5 July, 1838, as Additional Lieutenant, to the Cornwallis 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget – 27 Oct. following, to the Thunder surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Barnett – 16 Feb. 1840, again as Additional, to the Winchester 50, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. Harvey – 25 Sept. 1840, to the Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay – 2 March, 1841, to the command of the Skipjack schooner – 11 Jan. 1842, as First-Lieutenant, after an interval of half-pay, to his former ship the Thunder, still commanded by Capt. Barnett – 5 Dec. 1843, in a similar capacity, to the Larne 18, Capt. John Wm. Douglas Brisbane – and, 19 Nov. 1845, again as Senior, to the Alarm 26, Capts. Chas. Colville Frankland and Granville Gower Loch. With the exception of the Larne, which formed part of the force on the coast of Africa, the above ships were all employed on the North America and West India station. Lieut. May has been on half-pay since April, 1847. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
MAY. (Lieutenant, 1843.)
Charles Henry May entered the Navy 17 Aug. 1829; passed his examination 27 July, 1836; became Mate, in 1841, of the Formidable 84, Capt. Sir Chas. Sullivan, on the Mediterranean station; and was promoted, 7 March, 1843, to the rank of Lieutenant. His appointments have since been – 29 June, 1843, to the Eurydice 26, Capt. Geo. Elliot, under whom he was for about three years employed on the North America and West India station – and, 14 July, 1846, to the Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, now in the Mediterranean. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
MAY. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 22; h-p., 21.)
Christopher May entered the Navy, 3 Oct. 1804, as a Volunteer, on board the Salvador del Mundo, flag-ship at Plymouth of Admirals Sir John Colpoys and Wm. Young. Removing, in June, 1809, to the Raleigh 18, Capts. Geo. Sayer, John Sheridan, and Geo. Wastell Hooper, he accompanied, under the first named of those officers, the ensuing expedition to the Walcheren; assisted at the capture, in Feb. 1810, off Beachy Head, of La Modeste, French privateer, of 4 guns (pierced for 18) and 43 men; participated, 23 May following, when in company, near the Skawe, with the Alban and Princess of Wales cutters, in an engagement with seven Danish gun-vessels, one of which was blown up and the remainder dispersed, greatly damaged; and contributed, 2 Nov. in the same year, to the capture of the Admiral Neil Sieul, Danish privateer, pierced for 16 guns but with only 10 mounted, and a complement of 28 men. After a servitude of eight months, as Midshipman, in the Braave, prison-ship at Plymouth, Capt. Edw. Hawkins, Mr. May, in Sept. 1812, joined the Fairy 18, Capts. Edw. Grey and Henry Loraine Baker; in which vessel, after visiting the coast of Brazil, he partook of the various arduous operations on the river Potomac connected with the expedition of 1814 against the city of Alexandria; and was present, in 1815, at the surrender of Guadeloupe. He attained the rank he now holds 2 Nov. 1815; and since 12 July, 1836, has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
MAY. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Philip William May entered the Navy In 1831; passed his examination 27 Sept. 1838; and, in 1842, after having gone through a course of study at the Royal Naval College, was successively appointed Mate of the Carysfort 26, Capt. Lord Geo. Paulet, and Agincourt 72, bearing the flag of Sir Thos. John Cochrane. While in the latter ship, on the East India station, we find him serving, 19 Aug. 1845, with the boats of a squadron, carrying altogether 530 officers, seamen, and marines, at the destruction, under Capt. Chas. Talbot, of the piratical settlement of Malloodoo, on the north end of the island of Borneo, where the British encountered a desperate opposition, and sustained a loss of 6 men killed and 15 wounded. He was rewarded for his conduct on the occasion by a commission bearing date the day of the occurrence; and continued attached to the Agincourt, in the capacity of Additional Lieutenant, until paid off in the summer of 1847.
MAYNARD. (Commander, 1825. f-p., 22; h-p., 17.)
Joseph Maynard entered the Navy, 20 Dec. 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Frederickstein 32, Capts. Thos. Searle and Joseph Nourse, on the Mediterranean station, where he was very actively employed, and assisted at the capture of two privateers. In Dec. 1810, previously to which period he had attained the rating of Midshipman, he removed to the Salsette 36, Capt. John Hollinworth; and on again, in 1811, joining Capt. Nourse in the Volontaire 38, he served at the defence of Tarragona. Between the close of the year last mentioned and Jan. 1815, we find him employed on the Mediterranean, Home, and East India stations, in the Royal Sovereign 100, Capt. John Harvey, Diana 38, Capt. Wm. Ferris, Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander, and Minden 74, flag-ship of Sir Sam. Hood. He then returned to England in the Malacca 42, Capt. Geo. Henderson; and, on his arrival, was once more placed under the orders of Capt. Nourse, in the Severn 40. In July, 1815, Mr. Maynard took up a commission dated 4 of the preceding March. His succeeding appointments were – 2 Oct. 1815 and 20 May, 1817, to the Ganymede 20 and Severn again, both commanded by Capt. Wm. McCulloch, on the Home station, where, while in chase of a smuggler in a boat belonging to the latter ship, he had the misfortune to lose the fore-finger and part of the thumb of the right hand – 17 May, 1819 (sickness having compelled him to leave the Severn in the preceding Sept.), to the Brisk 10, Capts. John Wm. Montagu and Edw. Stewart, stationed in the Channel – and, 1 Nov. 1821, to the Andromache frigate, fitting for the broad pendant of his friend Commodore Nourse, Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope, where he had command, for two years, of the Wizard colonial brig. He attained his present rank 4 Oct. 1825; and was lastly, from 22 March, 1838, until 1844, employed in the Coast Guard as Inspecting Commander of the Stranraer district, on the west coast of Scotland.
Commander Maynard had charge for some time of the Duke of Portland’s Harbour at Troon, Ayrshire, N.B. He married, in 1828, Harriet, eldest daughter of Clark Hillyard, Esq., of Thorpelands, co. Northampton, by whom he has issue seven children. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
MAYNARD. (Retired Captain, 1840. f-p., 22; h-p., 45.)
Thomas Maynard entered the Navy, 11 May, 1780, as First-Lieutenant’s Servant, on board the Medea 28, Capt. Jas. Montagu, and, until discharged towards the close of the same year, was employed on the Guernsey station. Rejoining Capt. Montagu in 1781, on board the Juno 32, he cruized for a few months off the coast of Ireland, and then proceeded to the East Indies, where he arrived in time to participate in the last of Sir Edw. Hughes’s actions with M. de Suffrein, 20 June, 1783. Returning to Europe in 1785, he served during the six following years on the Home station, chiefly as Midshipman, in the Culloden 74, Capts. Rowland Cotton and Sir Thos. Rich, Ardent 64, Capt. Sir Fras. Hartwell, and Colossus 74, Capts. Henry Harvey and Hugh Cloberry Christian. He next, at the commencement of the French revolutionary war, became Master’s Mate of the Sampson 64, Capt. Robt. Montagu, lying at Plymouth; and in Jan. 1794 and Jan. 1795, he was successively con-
