author
Rev. W. May
A 19th-century clergyman and nature writer, he introduced young readers to the mammals of Britain in a clear, curious, and accessible way. His best-known surviving work, The Little Book of British Quadrupeds (1840), blends simple natural history with the moral, educational tone common in children’s books of the period.
1 Audiobook
Memorials of Francis Storr: Sermons
by Edward Hoare, Rev. W. May
About the author
Very little biographical information about Rev. W. May could be confirmed from reliable online sources during this search. What can be verified is that he is credited as the author of The Little Book of British Quadrupeds, a small natural history book published in London by C. Tilt in 1840.
The book surveys British mammals for a general or younger audience, describing animals, their habits, and their usefulness in a compact, readable style. That suggests he wrote with education in mind, combining clerical respectability with the growing 19th-century taste for popular science and natural history.
Because firm details about his life, dates, or wider career were not clearly available from the sources found, it is safest to remember him mainly through this surviving work and its place in early Victorian children’s nonfiction.