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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "May, William". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 930–931.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : "May, William". Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
