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Rh Maxwell and John Maxwell, R.N., of Major Stuart Maxwell, R.A., and of Lieut.-Colonel Montgomery Maxwell, 36th Regt.; and brother-in-law of 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 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 74, bearing the flag of Sir Sam. Hood, he returned to England, as Midshipman, in the early part of 1814, in the 74, Capt. Stephen Thos. Digby. During the next two years we find him joining in succession, on the Home station, the 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, 50, Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan,  74, Capt. Geo. McKinley, and 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 20 and  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 28 and  46, Capts. John Toup Nicolas and Sir Murray Maxwell, on the Home and South American stations. On 28 April, 1827, seven months after the had been paid off, Lieut. Maxwell was promoted to the command of the 10, in the Mediterranean, where he remained for a period of eight months. His next appointment was, 6 June, 1833, to the 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 26, flag-ship of Sir Hugh Pigot at Cork – and 9 May, 1846, to the  18, now in the East Indies.

Capt. Maxwell is a widower, with one daughter. – Messrs. Ommanney.

 MAXWELL, Bart. 

, 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 46, Capt. Sir Edw. Thos. Troubridge, on the Cork station – 21 Oct. following, to the 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  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. 

entered the Navy, in May, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 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 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 80, Capts. Thos. Browne and Henry Lidgbird Ball, he rejoined, on board the 74, off Rochefort. Following the same officer into the 74, Mr. Maxwell, during the passage of that ship to the West Indies, assisted, when in company with the  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 sloop, Capt. Geo. Luke, again, and  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 36,  24, and  22. At the end of 1817 he went back to the West Indies in the 44, flag-ship of Sir Home Popham; who, on 6 Nov. 1819, nominated him Lieutenant of the  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 10, Capts. Jas. Ryder Burton, Geo. Robt. Lambert, and Michael Seymour; under the first of whom, when in company with the 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 (whose services had chiefly been of the class termed “Particular”) had been paid off, he received an appointment to the  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. – Hallett and Robinson.

