Family and Education
b. c. 1638, o.s. of Hugh May of Mote Park, Old Windsor, Berks. by Sarah, da. of Jacob Pratt of Battersea, Surr. educ. M. Temple 1656, called 1662. m. (1) Hester (d.1666), da. and coh. of William Talcott, counsellor at law, of Lincoln’s Inn, 1da. d.v.p.; (2) lic. 28 Apr. 1668, aged 30, Mary (d.1680), da. of William Wroth of Haven End, Standon, Herts., wid. of Thomas Lake of Great Stanmore, Mdx., 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 1da.; (3) 18 Mar. 1686, Susanna (d. 9 Aug. 1718), da. of Edward May of Pashley, Ticehurst, Suss. and h. to her bro. Edward, 1s. 1da. d.v.p. suc. fa. c.1655; Kntd. 30 May 1681.Suss. Arch. Colls, li. 33; Le Neve’s Knights (Harl. Soc. viii), 349; Soc. of Genealogists, St. Dunstan in the West par. reg.; Add. 5699, f. 575; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 908; Vis. Suss. (Harl. Soc. lxxxix), 76; Horsfield, Suss. i. 592; Cal. Comm. Comp. 2188-90.
Offices Held
Commr. for assessment, Suss. 1664 – 80, Berks. Mdx. Westminster and Surr. 1677 – 79; j.p. Suss. 1666 – 89; freeman, Portsmouth 1667, 1682; recorder, Chichester 1673 – 1709, common councilman 1685 – Oct. 1688; commr. for recusants, Suss. 1675; bencher, M. Temple 1685, reader 1689, treas. 1697–8.
Cursitor baron of the Exchequer 1683-c. Mar. 1688.
Main residences: the Middle Temple; Grey Friars, Chichester, Suss.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
MAY, Richard (c.1638-1713)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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