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Lieut.-Colonel May joined his elder brother Thomas in the brewery business in the year 1860, when he was twenty-three years of age, the business then being carried on under the style of Thomas and John May. It may be interesting to state that the old style of the business, which had been established in 1750, was that of "brewers, maltsters, and farmers," and at one time the firm farmed 500 or 600 acres, and for several years Colonel May went in for farming on an extensive scale, his 400 to 500 acres including the Glebe and Deep Lane farms. Colonel May's brother, who was his senior by nearly eight years (and who, by the way, was for a short period a member of the Corporation), died on January 17th, 1870, at the early age of forty, when the partnership had existed for about ten years. Subsequently Mr. John May took the late Captain Robertson and the late Mr. Blatch into partnership, and in later years the business was, for family reasons, converted into a limited liability company, in which, however, Colonel May still retains the principal interest. He is Chairman of the Company, in the direction of which lie takes an active part, and in which his exceptional business abilities and keen insight and foresight are of the greatest value.

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