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Up for sale the "7th Baronet" Herbert Maxwell Hand Written Letter Dated 1914.
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Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th 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. A member of Clan Maxwell descended from the first Lord Maxwell of Caerlaverock Castle,
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 battalion Royal Scots Lieutenant for Wigtownshire. Maxwell was elected Member of general
election and held the seat until 1906.[6] He served in 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. Maxwell was President of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland (1900-1913), and Chairman of the National Library 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, and
again in 1912 on the early chronicles relating to Scotland.
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.
