Maxwell[1] and John Maxwell,[2] R.N., of Major Stuart Maxwell, R.A., and of Lieut.-Colonel Montgomery Maxwell, 36th Regt.; and brother-in-law of Capt. Chas. Hallowell Carew, R.N. He is a relative of the present Sir Wm. Maxwell, Bart., of Monreith, co. Wigtoun, Captain unattached, late of the 14th Light Dragoons.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Nov. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Daedalus 38, commanded by his father, Capt. Murray Maxwell, under whom he was wrecked, off Ceylon, 2 July, 1813. After an attachment of a few months, as a Supernumerary, to the Minden 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, he returned to England, as Midshipman, in the early part of 1814, in the Cornwallis 74, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby. During the next two years we find him joining in succession, on the Home station, the Stirling Castle 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, Glasgow 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, Bulwark 74, Capt. Geo. McKinley, and Alceste 38, commanded by his father. In the ship last mentioned Mr. Maxwell, after accompanying Lord Amherst in his expedition to China, was again wrecked, in the Straits of Caspar, 18 Feb. 1817. He afterwards, from June in the same year until Dec. 1818, served on the St. Helena station in the Falmouth 20 and Racoon 18, Capts. Robt. Worgan Geo. Festing, Jas. Wallis, and Geo. Brine; and, attaining the rank of Lieutenant 6 April, 1820, was successively appointed in that capacity – 30 June following, to the Ordinary service on Lake Ontario, whence he returned in June, 1821 – and 6 Sept. and 30 Nov. 1822, to the Egeria 28 and Briton 46, Capts. John Toup Nicolas and Sir Murray Maxwell, on the Home and South American stations. On 28 April, 1827, seven months after the Briton had been paid off, Lieut. Maxwell was promoted to the command of the Chanticleer 10, in the Mediterranean, where he remained for a period of eight months. His next appointment was, 6 June, 1833, to the Gannet 16, the command of which vessel he retained in the West Indies until posted, 10 Jan. 1837. His appointments have since been – 19 June, 1845, to the Crocodile 26, flag-ship of Sir Hugh Pigot at Cork – and 9 May, 1846, to the Dido 18, now in the East Indies.
Capt. Maxwell is a widower, with one daughter. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
MAXWELL, Bart. (Lieutenant, 1828. f-p., 15; h-p., 11.)
Sir John Heron Maxwell, born 7 March, 1808, is third and eldest surviving son of Sir John Maxwell, Bart., of Springkell, Dumfriesshire, by Mary, only surviving child and heir of Patrick Heron, Esq., of Heron, in the Stewartry of Galloway, M.P., whose wife, Elizabeth, was the only daughter of the eighth Earl of Dundonald. He succeeded his elder brother, the late Sir Patrick Heron Maxwell, as sixth Baronet, 27th Aug. 1844.
This officer entered the Navy 1 Feb. 1821; passed his examination in 1827; obtained his commission 17 Sept. 1828; and was subsequently appointed – 11 Jan. 1832, to the Stag 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, on the Cork station – 21 Oct. following, to the Britannia 120, Capt. Peter Bainier, employed off Lisbon, whence he returned in 1833 – 11 Dec. 1838, to the command of a station in the Coast Guard – and 17 Sept. 1842, to the San Josef 110, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Pym, Admiral Superintendent at Devonport. Since the paying off of the latter ship, in 1845, Sir John has been on half-pay.
He married, 7 Nov. 1833, Caroline, sixth daughter of the Hon. Montgomery J. G. Stewart, and niece of the late Earl of Galloway, by whom he has issue a son and three daughters.
MAXWELL. (Lieut., 1820. f-p., 34; h-p., 3.)
William Maxwell entered the Navy, in May, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Diana 38, Capt. Chas. Grant; and, on 15 of the following Nov., was present in an attack made on the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, as they lay aground under the protection of several strong batteries in the neighbourhood of La Hogue. In April, 1811, he became Midshipman of the Hannibal 74, bearing the flag in the North Sea of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham; whom, in June, 1813, after a servitude of four months off Flushing in the Christian VII. 80, Capts. Thos. Browne and Henry Lidgbird Ball, he rejoined, on board the Bulwark 74, off Rochefort. Following the same officer into the Venerable 74, Mr. Maxwell, during the passage of that ship to the West Indies, assisted, when in company with the Cyane sloop, at the well-resisted capture, 16 and 20 Jan. 1814, of the French 44-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène. He continued to serve on the station last mentioned in the Heron sloop, Capt. Geo. Luke, Venerable again, and Barrosa 42, Capts. Wm. McCulloch and John Maxwell, until the close of 1815; and then proceeded to the East Indies; where, with Capts. Andrew King and John Reynolds, he was for nearly two years employed, latterly as Master’s Mate and Acting-Master, in the Iphigenia 36, Conway 24, and Volage 22. At the end of 1817 he went back to the West Indies in the Sybille 44, flag-ship of Sir Home Popham; who, on 6 Nov. 1819, nominated him Lieutenant of the Ontario 18, Capt. Geo. Gosling. In the boats of that vessel Mr. Maxwell contributed to the capture of one, and the destruction of another, piratical schooner. Quitting her about the period of his official promotion, which took place 9 June, 1820, he was next, 23 May, 1823, appointed to the Camelion 10, Capts. Jas. Ryder Burton, Geo. Robt. Lambert, and Michael Seymour; under the first of whom, when in company with the Naiad frigate, he took part, 31 Jan. 1824, in a close and gallant action, which terminated in the boarding and capture, under the very batteries of Algiers, of the corvette Tripoli of 18 guns and 100 men. On 18 Aug. 1826, a few days after the Camelion (whose services had chiefly been of the class termed “Particular”) had been paid off, he received an appointment to the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; on the books of which he continued borne, as a Supernumerary, until 30 Dec. 1830. He has been in command, since 16 March, 1831, of a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Capt. Keith Maxwell obtained his first commission in 1794; and as a reward for his heroic conduct in cutting out, with the boats of a squadron under his orders, the French corvette La Chevrette of 20 guns and 350 men, was promoted to the rank of Commander in July, 1801. Attaining Post-rank 1 May, 1804, Capt. Maxwell was subsequently employed in command of the Tartar and Nymphen frigates; in tiie latter of which, during the expedition of 1609 to the Walcheren, he assisted in forcing the passage between the batteries of Flushing and Cadsand. He died 22 April, 1823.
- ↑ Capt. John Maxwell was made a Lieutenant in 1808; a Commander 22 Jan. 1606; and a Post-Captain 15 June, 1810. When in command of the Royalist 18, he contrived, between May, 1809, and 24 Feb. 1810, to capture as many as five French privateers, carrying, altogether, 64 guns and 255 men. During the last two years of the war he served on the coast of Africa in the Favourite 20; and he afterwards commanded the Baerosa 42, and Aurora 46; on board which latter ship he died 31 May, 1826.
Cyane sloop, part of the squadron employed under Commodore Hood, at the ensuing reduction of Ste. Lucie; and was posted 4 Aug. 1803. He commanded the Centaur 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Hood, at the capture of Tobago, Demerara, and Berbice; and while in the same ship, in 1824, bore a very distinguished part in the operations which led to the fall of Surinam. When Capt., subsequently, of the Alceste 38, he rendered his name conspicuous by the dashing nature of his services in the Mediterranean; where, in company with the Active 38, he fought, 29 Nov. 1611,amost gallant action with the French 40-gun frigates Pauline and Pomone. Capt. Maxwell afterwards commanded the Daedalus 38, Alceste again, Bulwark 74, and Briton 46. In the Alceste, as above recorded, he took out Lord Amherst on the occasion of that nobleman’s embassy to China, for his services as connected with which the East India Company, in May, 1619, presented him with the sum of 1500l. He had been nominated a C.B. in 1615, and in May, 1818, awarded the honour of knighthood.
