Edward John May (1853–1941) was an English architect.
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 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. 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.
"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."
1870s – 1880s Houses at Bedford Park1877 No. 1 The Avenue, Bedford Park1879 Club House, Bedford Park1880 No 12 Blenheim Drive, Bedford Park (attrib)1880 Nos 17 – 19 Marlborough Crescent, Bedford Park (attrib)1881 The Vicarage, Bedford Park1882 Nos 21 – 39 Marlborough Crescent, Bedford Park(attrib)1882 Nos 15 – 33 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park1882 Nos 24 – 28 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park1882 Nos 2 – 10 Newton Grove, Bedford Park1882 No 1 Newton Grove, Bedford Park1882 No 11 South Parade, Bedford Park (attrib)1882 Master's House, The School, Derby1883 nos 15 – 25 Queen Anne's Grove, London1883 New Hotel Bush Hill Park, Enfield1883 nos 3 – 4 Gainsborough Gardens, Hampstead, London1883 House for Dr Hogg, Priory Gardens, Bedford Park, London1884–85 St Margaret's Terrace, Cromer, Norfolk1884 Swarland Hall, Northumberland1884 Stables, Swarland Hall1884 No 5 The Orchard, Bedford Park1885 House at Wimbledon, London1885 Club Room, Bedford Park1886 Herne's Close, Overstrand Road, Cromer, Norfolk1887 House at Elstree1889 No 2 The Grange, Wimbledon1889 Folkton Manor House1890 Barnsdale Hall, near Oakham, Rutland1891 House at Hampstead1892 Kirklevington Grange, North Riding1892 House in Connecticut, USA1892 Lyneham, Chislehurst, Kent (his own home)1895 The Croft, Hindhead, Surrey1894 West Lodge, Wimbledon1895 Stables at Shaw Hill, Wiltshire1895 Houses at Gainsborough Gardens, Hampstead, London1894-8 Jardine Hall, Drumfrieshire, Scotland1898 Saxby's St Paul's Cray Road, Chislehurst (alts)1900 Homeside, no 4 South Side, Wimbledon1901 Norman Cottage, Morley Road, Chislehurst1902 Falconhurst, no 19 Parkside, Wimbledon1900–05 Branksome Place (formerly Hilders, then Branksome Hilders), Hindhead Rd, Haselmere, Surrey, for Sir Charles McLaren, bt. (later 1st Baron Aberconway)1900–05 Honeyhanger, Haselmere, Surrey, for Sir Charles McLaren, bt. (later 1st Baron Aberconway)1900–05 10 Palace Green, London1904 Nos 165 – 169 Lower Camden, Chislehurst1904 New Entrance Lodges, Toddington, Gloucestershire1905 Ballindune, Weydown Road, Haslemere1906–07 Saxby's St Paul's Cray Road, Chislehurst (further alts)1907 Nos 1, 2 and 4 Shepherd's Green, Chislehurst1907 Dunoran, Park Farm Road, Bickley.1908 Nos 3 and 5 Shepherd's Green, Chislehurst1908 House at Webbington, Somerset1908 Three Firs, Hindhead, Surrey1909 Western Motor Works, Perry Street, Chislehurst1909 The Homestead, 9 Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst1910 Waifs and Strays' Home, Pyford, Surrey1910 Working Men's Club (British Legion), 76 Green Lane, Chislehurst1910 Nos 1 – 5 Beaverwood Road, Chislehurst1910 – 11 Guild hall, Sandwich, Kent (alts)1910 White Riggs, Mead Road, Chislehurst1910 Sweet Meadows, Mead Road, Chislehurst1910 Nos 1 5 Beaverwood Road, Chislehurst (attrib)1911 House at Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells1911 House at Toddington, Gloucestershire1911 Lych Gate at Church of the Annunciation, High Street, Chislehurst1912 Antokol (formerly Oak House), Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst1913 Wallings (formerly Lyneham), Heathfield Lane, Chislehurst (own house)1914 Millfield, Cricketground Road, Chislehurst (demolished)1915 Red Hatch, 55 Elmstead Lane, Chislehurst (erected 1920)1920s Elmstead Spinney, no 5 Wood Drive, Chislehurst1922 Mainstay Lodge, Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst (demolished)1924 St Anne's Cottage, no 6 The Meadow, Chislehurst1925 Ada Lewis Governesses' Homes, Southend Road, Beckenham, Kent1926 Quatre Fils (formerly Harwood), 41 Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst1927 Lockers, Holbrook Lane, Chislehurst1928 Archway Cottages, Scadbury Estate, Chislehurst1930 Moorcroft (formerly Exbourne), Wilderness Road, Chislehurst1930 Tower at Church of the Annunciation, High Street, ChislehurstLychgate to St Mary's Church, Perivale, MiddlesexNo 48 Parkway, Gidea Park, Hornchurch, EssexNo 10 Reed Pond Walk, Gidea Park, Hornchurch, EssexSketch of a Queen Anne Interior (Orchard House)Royal Academy Exhibitor annually from 1881–1892 and also 1894, 1898 and 1900.
