MAXSE, JAMES (son of John Maxse of Brislington, Somerset).
_b._ 1792; matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 5 Dec. 1809; one of
the four masters of the Quorn foxhounds known as the Quorn
quadrilateral, Moore, Maxse, Maher and Musgrave; gave up
hunting, being very heavy 1834; ‘Maxse on Cognac’ a celebrated
hunter is immortalized in a song by Campbell of Saddell; owner
of well-known yacht Sabrina. _d._ Upper Grosvenor st. London
3 March 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 23 April 1864.
_Sporting Review_, _li_ 272 (1864).
MAXWELL, ACHESON. _b._ 1760; held various confidential
employments under earl of Macartney at Madras, in embassy to
China and in Cape of Good Hope, went with him on a confidential
mission to Louis XVIII. at Verona 1795; auditor of public
accounts some years, retired on a pension. _d._ 8 Upper Belgrave
place, Pimlico, London 31 Dec. 1851.
MAXWELL, ALEXANDER (3 son of Wm. Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire). _b._ 7 March 1816; ensign 46 foot 19 June 1835,
lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, placed on h.p. 21 Feb. 1860; served in
the Crimea from Nov. 1854; col. 34 foot 9 April 1879 to death.;
general 19 April 1880; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; knight of legion of
honour. _d._ 3 Southwell gardens, South Kensington 8 March 1889.
MAXWELL, CHARLES FRANCIS. Ensign 82 foot 28 July 1825,
lieut.-col. 27 Oct. 1848, sold out 1 Sep. 1854. _d._ 1873.
MAXWELL, EDWARD HERBERT (3 son of sir Wm. Maxwell, 5 baronet
1779–1838). _b._ 30 July 1822; ensign 88 foot 26 April 1839,
lieut.-col. 16 June 1857, placed on h.p. 19 June 1872; served in
the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; L.G. 11 Nov. 1878; C.B. 20
May 1871, granted service reward 5 Dec. 1871; placed on retired
list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; author of Griffin
ahoy! A yacht cruise to the Levant 1882; With the Connaught
rangers in quarters, camp and on leave 1883. _d._ 21 Inverkeith
row, Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1885.
MAXWELL, GEORGE. Ensign 2 West India regiment 23 Feb. 1826;
lieut. 66 foot 22 Nov. 1833, lieut.-col. 14 Aug. 1857, retired
with hon. rank of M.G. 12 June 1863. _d._ Kilucleigh, Langholm,
Dumfriesshire 11 Nov. 1886.
MAXWELL, HENRY HAMILTON (son of rev. Peter Benson Maxwell of
Birdstown, Donegal). _b._ 3 March 1824; lieut. Bengal artillery
10 June 1842; D.A.Q.M.G. of artillery, army of Sutlej, Dec.
1845 to April 1846; served in Gwalior campaign 1843–4, Sutlej
campaign 1845–6 and Indian mutiny 1857–8; lieut.-col. R.A. 20
Sep. 1865, col. 6 Oct. 1872; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 31 March 1883; attached to sir Wm.
Peel’s naval brigade and was at relief of Lucknow and Cawnpore
1857; C.B. 24 May 1873; translated Taubert’s On the use of
field artillery on service 1856, and G. S. Marey Monge’s Memoir
on swords 1860; author of Arms and legs in Rome, a system for
providing the maimed poor with artificial limbs. Rome 1882. _d._
Rome 28 May 1892.
MAXWELL, JAMES. Ensign 34 foot 24 Sep. 1841, major 28 July 1857,
placed on h.p. 1 April 1866; served at Sebastopol 1854–5 and in
the Indian campaign 1857–8; lieut. col. 1 West India regiment 17
Aug. 1870 to death; C.B. 31 March 1874. _d._ on board the Africa
at sea on his way to England from Cape Coast Castle 14 April
1874.
MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (2 child and only son of John Clerk of
Edinburgh, advocate who took surname of Maxwell and _d._ 2
April 1856). _b._ 14 India st. Edinburgh 13 June 1831; ed. at
Edinburgh academy 1841–7 and univ. 1847–50; entered Peterhouse,
Cambridge Oct. 1850, migrated to Trinity coll. Dec. 1850,
scholar April 1852, fellow 1855, lecturer 1855, hon. fellow;
2 wrangler and bracketed with Routh as Smith’s prizeman 1854;
B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; wrote essays for the Select essay club
known as the Apostles 1853–56; professor of natural philosophy
at Marischal college, Aberdeen, April 1856 to 15 Sep. 1860;
professor of natural philosophy in King’s college, London
1860–5; delivered his first lecture at the royal institution
17 May 1861; professor of experimental physics in univ. of
Camb. 8 March 1871 to death, superintended building of physical
laboratory opened June 1874; member of council of senate of
the univ. Nov. 1876; pres. of Cambridge philosophical society
1876–77; F.R.S. 6 June 1861, Rumford medallist 1860; hon. LL.D.
Edinb. 1870, hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1876; his mathematical theory of
electricity was generally accepted by scientists, he did more
than any one to establish the Kinetic theory of gases; author of
On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings 1859; Theory
of heat 1870; Introductory lectures on experimental physics
1871; A treatise on electricity and magnetism 2 vols. 1873, 2
ed. 1881; The scientific papers of J. C. Maxwell 2 vols. 1890.
_d._ 11 Scroope terrace, Cambridge 5 Nov. 1879. _bur._ Parton
churchyard, Glenlair. _The life of J. C. Maxwell. By L. Campbell
and W. Garnett_ (1882), 2 _portraits_; _Proc. of Royal Soc.
xxxiii_ 1–16 (1882); _Nature_, _xxiv_ 601 (1881), _portrait_.
MAXWELL, SIR JOHN, 8 Baronet (only son of sir John Maxwell,
7 baronet 1768–1844). _b._ Pollok, Renfrewshire 12 May 1791;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxford 26 Oct. 1809; M.P. Renfrewshire
1818–30; M.P. Lanarkshire 1832–7; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1829; author
of Suggestions on the present want of employment for labour and
capital 1852; True reform, or character a qualification for
franchise 1860. _d._ at the mansion house of Pollok 6 June 1865.
_Proc. of royal soc. of Edinb. v_ 477 (1866).
MAXWELL, JOHN BALFOUR (only son of sir Murray Maxwell, captain
R.N., C.B., _d._ 1831). _b._ 1799; entered navy 15 Nov. 1812;
commander of the Gannet 16 guns in the West Indies 1833–7;
captain 10 Jany. 1837; admiral on h.p. 8 April 1868. _d._
Guernsey 31 Jany. 1874.
MAXWELL, JOHN HALL (eld. son of William Maxwell of Dargavel,
Renfrewshire, _d._ 1847). _b._ Queen st. Glasgow, Feb. 1812;
called to Scottish bar 1835, retired 1845; secretary to
Highland and agricultural society of Scotland 1846, resigned
9 May 1866; greatly improved the annual shows; paid great
attention to collection of agricultural statistics; effected
many improvements on his estate at Dargavel; C.B. 5 Feb. 1856;
presented with one thousand guineas and a service of plate 17
Jany. 1866. _d._ Torr hall near Paisley 25 Aug. 1866, portrait
by Gourlay Steel in council chamber of Highland and agricultural
soc. _Saddle and Sirloin. By The Druid, Part North_ (1870) 3–6.
MAXWELL, SIR PETER BENSON (brother of Henry Hamilton Maxwell
1824–92). _b._ Cheltenham, Jany. 1817; ed. in Paris and at Trin.
coll. Dublin, B.A. 1839; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; a comr.
to inquire into state of hospitals at Scutari 1854; recorder
of Penang, Straits of Malacca, Feb. 1856 to 1866; recorder
of Singapore 27 July 1866 to 1871; chief justice of Straits
Settlements 1867–71; employed in reorganizing judicial tribunals
of Egypt 1883–4; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 Jany. 1856;
author of Whom shall we hang? The Sebastopol enquiry 1855; An