Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Henry May was a Royal Navy Officer. As a junior officer he took part an expedition to rescue Commander Albert Markham who had got into difficulty trying to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound, the sea passage between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island.
- Occupation
- naval officer
- Position held
- Third Sea Lord, Second Sea Lord
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- July 31, 1849
- Died
- October 7, 1930
