Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet
The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Monreith, KT, PC, FRS,[1] FRGS (8 January 1845 – 30 October 1937) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906.[2]
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Early life
Maxwell was the eldest surviving son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Maxwell, 6th Baronet and his wife Helenora Shaw-Stewart, daughter of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 5th Baronet. He was educated at Eton, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a captain in the 4th batn. Royal Scots Fusiliers and a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Wigtownshire.[3]
Political career
Maxwell was elected Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire in the 1880 general election and held the seat until 1906.[4] He served in the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1886 to 1892 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1897. He was Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown from 1903 to 1935. He was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1933.
He received an honorary doctorate (LL.D) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901.[5]
Antiquarian interests
Maxwell was President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1900-1913), and Chairman of the National Library of Scotland (1925–1932).[6] He was the chairman of Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) from its inception in 1908 until 1934.
Maxwell gave the Rhind Lectures in 1893, on the placenames of Scotland,[7][8] and again in 1912 on the early chronicles relating to Scotland.[9][7]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 and was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1917.[1]
Marriage and issue
Maxwell married Mary Fletcher-Campbell, daughter of Henry Fletcher Campbell, of Boquhan, Stirling, on 20 January 1869. She predeceased him on 3 September 1910. By her, he had two sons and three daughters.
- William Maxwell died in 1897 in South Africa.
- Beatrice married Ernest Walker in St Margaret's Westminster in October 1901.
- Winifred married Alastair Graham-Moir of Leckie.
- Ann Christian Maxwell (5 September 1871 – 5 April 1937), wife of Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet
- Lt. Col. Aymer Edward Maxwell, (26 October 1877 - died from wounds in World War I, 9 October 1914). Aymer Maxwell married Lady Mary Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland and by her had one daughter and three sons one of which was naturalist and author, Gavin Maxwell.[10]
Works
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Novels
- Sir Lucian Elphin (1889),
- The Letter of the Law (1890),
- A Duke of Britain (1895),
- Chevalier of the Splendid Crest (1900),
Non Fiction
- Meridiana, Noontide Essays (1892)
- Scottish Land Names (1894)
- Afternoon Essays (1895)
- Rainy Days in a Library (1896)
- Sixty Years a Queen (1897)
- Salmon and Sea Trout (1898)
- Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence
- History of the House of Douglas-from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland (1902)-introduced by William Lindsay, Windsor Herald
- Memories of the Months (7 series-1897 through to 1922)
- British Soldiers in the Field (1902)
- British Fresh-Water Fishes (1904)
- Story of the Tweed (1905)
- Scalacronica; The reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III as Recorded by Sir Thomas Gray (1907)
- Scottish Gardens (1908)
- Cronicles of the Houghton Fishing Club 1822-1908 (1908)
- The Making of Scotland (1911)
- The Lanercost Chronicle (1913)
- Fishing at Home and Abroad (1913)
Also "Lives" of W. H. Smith, Wellington, Romney, etc.
References
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource
External links
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- Works by Herbert Maxwell at Project Gutenberg
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Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire 1880 – 1906 |
Succeeded by Lord Elcho |
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Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown 1903–1935 |
Succeeded by The 12th Earl of Stair |
Baronetage of Nova Scotia | ||
Preceded by
William Maxwell
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Baronet (of Monreith) 1877–1937 |
Succeeded by Aymer Maxwell |
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