NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: May, John, 1775-1856 NRA: May John (1775-1856) First Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police LBT ID: JoMay1856 | B/BAP: 1775 DIED: 1856 |
SOURCES: Kenneth Curry, New Letters of Robert Southey (1965) | |
Wine merchant and close friend of Robert Southey; after the failure of the family
business in Portuguese wines he was a bank manager in the 1820s. | |