Maxwell, John
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Epithet: 6th Lord Maxwell
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Epithet: Chief Commissioner of Ashanti; Knight 1930
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Epithet: Traveller
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Epithet: publisher
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Title: 1st Baron Farnham
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Epithet: Colonel
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Title: 8th Baronet 1844
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Epithet: Reverend
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Title: 4th Baron Herries
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Epithet: Chief Constable of Manchester
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Epithet: 8th Lord Harries, afterwards 3rd Earl of Nithsdale
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Epithet: Bishop of Ross
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Title: Baron Herries
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Irish painter, playwright, and author Samuel Lover (1797–1868) was a prolific artist during the nineteenth century. He painted portraits and wrote plays, ballads and novels.
"Samuel Lover 1797–1868." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 16, 2007).
John Maxwell (1824–1895) was the husband and publisher of English writer Mary Braddon.
"Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1837–1915." Literature Online. http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 20, 2007).
From the guide to the John Maxwell letter to Samuel Lover, 1859 September 27, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)
Epithet: of Nether-Pollock
Title: Baronet
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Epithet: Warden of the W Marches of Scotland
Title: 7th Baron Maxwell
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Sir John Maxwell, CMG (1921) Kt (1930), was born on the 6 September 1875 at Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbright, Scotland and educated at Dumfries Academy. He served articles as a solicitor with Walker & Sharpe, Maxwelltown, Dumfries, studied law at Glasgow University (1896-1898) and qualified as a Solicitor in 1899.
On entering the Colonial Administrative Service, Maxwell was posted to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) where he served as: Assistant District Commissioner (1902); Travelling Commissioner (1905); Provincial Commissioner (1907); Commissioner for the Eastern Province (1909); Commissioner for the Western Province (1911); Colonial Secretary and Governor's Deputy (1916); Deputy Chief Commissioner (1921); Secretary for Native Affairs (1923); Acting Governor (twice); Acting Colonial Secretary; Attorney-General and Solicitor-General.
Maxwell retired in 1930 and died on the 31 March 1946.
From the guide to the Diaries of Sir John Maxwell, 1909-1930, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House)
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Subjects:
- Authors, Irish
- Colonial administrators Ghana Diaries
Occupations:
- Artists
- Authors
- Publisher
Places:
- Liddesdale, Roxburghshire (as recorded)
- Irvine, Ayrshire (as recorded)
- Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (as recorded)
- Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire (as recorded)
- Home Castle, Berwickshire (as recorded)
- Lothian, Scotland (as recorded)
- Mar, Aberdeenshire (as recorded)
- York, Yorkshire (as recorded)
- Leith, Scotland (as recorded)
- Coventry, Warwickshire (as recorded)
- Yorkshire, England (as recorded)
- Orkney Islands, Scotland (as recorded)
- Orkney Islands, Scotland (as recorded)
- Cadiz, Spain (as recorded)
- Edinburgh, Scotland (as recorded)
- Ghana Officials and employees (as recorded)
- Fast Castle, Berwickshire (as recorded)
- Cocklaw, Teviotdale (as recorded)
- Glasgow, Scotland (as recorded)
- Yorkshire, England (as recorded)
- Portugal, Europe (as recorded)
- Jhansee, India (as recorded)
- Glasgow, Scotland (as recorded)
- Shetland Islands, Scotland (as recorded)
- Edinburgh, Scotland (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Linlithgow, Linlithgow (as recorded)
- Preswen, Cumberland (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Stirling, Scotland (as recorded)
- Ceylon, Asia (as recorded)
- Lauther Castle, Berwickshire (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Eyemouth Cantle, Berwickshire (as recorded)
- Teviotdale, Roxburghshire (as recorded)
- Strathbogy, Aberdeenshire (as recorded)
- Dunfermline, Fifeshire (as recorded)
- Netherlands, Europe (as recorded)
- Whittlewood Forest, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire (as recorded)
- Wales, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Hume Castle, Berwickshire (as recorded)
- Lubeck, Germany (as recorded)
- Perugia, Italy (as recorded)
- Glasgow, Scotland (as recorded)
- Drogheda, Ireland (as recorded)
- India, Asia (as recorded)
- Hamburg, Germany (as recorded)
- Ireland, Europe (as recorded)
- Bannockburn, Stirlingshire (as recorded)
- Thetford, counties Norfolk and Suffolk (as recorded)
- Netherlands, Europe (as recorded)
- Buchan, Aberdeenshire (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Coventry, Warwickshire (as recorded)
- Cape Trafalgar, Spain (as recorded)
- Perth, Perthshire (as recorded)
- Gariauch, Aberdeenshire (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Norwich, Norfolk (as recorded)
- Hampsthwaite, Yorkshire (as recorded)
- Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
- Roxburgh Castle, Roxburghshire (as recorded)
- Meerut, India (as recorded)
- India, Asia (as recorded)
- Netherlands, Europe (as recorded)
- Merse, Scotland (as recorded)
- Ireland, Europe (as recorded)
- Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (as recorded)
- Africa, Africa (as recorded)
- Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (as recorded)
- Banffshire, Scotland (as recorded)
