May, George Augustus Chichester (1815-1892), judge and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge

• The Rt Hon George Augustus Chichester May, PC (1815-1892)

Matriculated in 1834. Made a Fellow in 1841. Called to the Irish Bar in 1844; QC 1865; Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1877-1887, and Lord Justice of Appeal (1878); he narrowly avoided having to try his fellow Old Member, C. S. Parnell, in the case of conspiracy against the payment of rent in 1880-1881 but having dismissed a motion for the postponement of the trial, he was accused of partiality, and did not sit. ‘A learned, painstaking and impartial judge’ (DNB).

Arms in Hall glass, E1.

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Cunich, P., Hoyle, D., Duffy, E., Hyam, R., A History of Magdalene College Cambridge, 1428-1988 p. 186-87

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography