Everything about Erskine May 1st Baron Farnborough totally explained
Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough (
8 February 1815–
17 May 1886) was a British
constitutional theorist. This derived from his career at the
House of Commons, where he was appointed assistant to Thomas Vardon, chief
librarian of the
House of Commons Library in 1831. He became examiner of petitions for
private bills in 1847, Clerk Assistant in 1856, and Clerk of the House of Commons by
letters patent on
16 February 1871.
His most famous work,
A Practical Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament (known as
Parliamentary Practice or simply
Erskine May), is considered part of the
Constitution of the United Kingdom. Similarly, it's a highly influential document in many
Commonwealth nations, often with strong influence on
constitutional convention.
Another notable work is
The Constitutional History of England since the Accession of George III, 1760–1860 (ISBN 0-8377-2429-5). May's work was rejected by later historians, such as
Herbert Butterfield who wrote, "Erskine May must be a good example of the way in which an historian may fall into error through an excess of brilliance. His capacity for synthesis, and his ability to dovetail the various parts of the evidence … carried him into a more profound and complicated elaboration of error than some of his more pedestrian predecessors … he inserted a doctrinal element into his history which, granted his original aberrations, was calculated to project the lines of his error, carrying his work still further from centrality or truth."
Sir William McKay, who edited Erskine May's private journal considered May was possibly an unacknowledged son or grandson of
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine.
May was created
Baron Farnborough on
11 May 1886, and died on
17 May 1886, and as he left no heirs, the title became extinct, making it the second-shortest-lived
peerage in British history after the
Barony of Leighton.
A bust of May is displayed in D Room of the
House of Commons Library.
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