Note 5 — REGIMENTAL LISTS.

Son of John May, Esq., storekeeper of the Ordnance, Fort George, Guernsey; lineally descended from Thos. May, the poet (of the family of Mays, of Mayfield, county Sussex). Bn. 1778. Md. 1819 the only child of Robt. Broff, Esq., formerly governor of Bencoolen, Sumatra. Major-Genl. in the army 1838. Was a colonel in the R.A., in which he served from 1795. Recd. the gold cross and three clasps for his services at Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse. Was given the order of St. Anne of Russia, 2nd class, for his services at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, also nominated a knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, in 1815, for his services in the Peninsula. K.C.B. 1815. K.C.H. 1822. Sir John was employed afloat in bomb service from 1st Dec., 1797, to the 16th April, 1801. Present at Copenhagen in 1807. He recd. two musket balls through the left thigh when charging the French rearguard on the morning after the battle of Salamanca, and a violent contusion at Vittoria. D., 8th May, 1847, in London. Above information communicated by Mrs. Gibbons, great-niece of Sir John May, K.C.B.