Ernest May (athlete)

Ernest Edmund Bedford May (14 September 1878 Bartlow, Cambridgeshire – 5 January 1952) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

[1] May, born in Cambridgeshire, attended Haileybury School and Oriel College, Oxford.

He finished runner-up behind Tom Kiely at the 1901 AAA Championships[2] and repeated the success twice more, starting the following year at the 1902 AAA Championships (behind Kiely again)[3] and the 1903 AAA Championships (behind Tom Nicolson).

He was an Anglican clergyman, Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford and a Minor Canon of Durham Cathedral and died in Chathill, Ellingham.

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