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.