The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Monreith

Monreith House

Monreith House is a category A listed Georgian mansion located east of the village of Port William in Mochrum parish, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The classical-style house was designed by Alexander Stevens in 1791, for Sir William Maxwell, 4th Baronet. The new house replaced the now-ruined...

, KT

Order of the Thistle

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, PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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, FRS, FRGS

Royal Geographical Society

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 (8 January 1845 – 30 October 1937) was a Scottish

Scotland

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 novelist, essayist, horticulturalist and Conservative

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 politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906.

Early life

Maxwell was 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

Shaw-Stewart Baronets

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. He was educated at Eton

Eton College

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, and at Christ Church, Oxford

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. He was a captain in the 4th batn. Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

-The Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot :The regiment was raised in Scotland in 1678 by Stuart loyalist Charles Erskine, de jure 5th Earl of Mar for service against the rebel covenanting forces during the Second Whig Revolt . They were used to keep the peace and put down brigands, mercenaries, and...

 and a J.P.

Justice of the Peace

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 and Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 for Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire

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.

Political career

Maxwell was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the 1880 general election and held the seat until 1906. He served in the Conservative administration

Conservative Government 1886-1892

Principal source: C. Cook and B. Keith, British Historical Facts 1830–1900...

 of Lord Salisbury

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...

 as a Junior Lord of the Treasury

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 from 1886 to 1892 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1897. He was Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown

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 from 1903 to 1935.

Marriage and issue

Maxwell married Mary Fletcher-Campbell, daughter of Henry Fletcher Campbell, of Boquhan, Stirling, on 20 January 1869. She predeceased him on the 3 September 1910. By her, he had two children who also both predeceased him

• 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
  World War I
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  , 9 October 1914). Aymer Maxwell married Lady Mary Percy, daughter of Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
  Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
  Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland KG, PC, FRS , styled Lord Lovaine between 1865 and 1867 and Earl Percy between 1867 and 1899, was a British Conservative politician...
  
   and by her had one daughter and three sons one of which was naturalist and author, Gavin Maxwell
  Gavin Maxwell
  Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS , FRGS was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his work with otters. He wrote the book Ring of Bright Water about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland...
  
  .

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)
• Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence
  Scottish independence
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• 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
  William Lindsay (officer of arms)
  William Alexander Lindsay, CVO, FSA was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Lindsay was the son of Hon. Colin Lindsay and Lady Frances Howard. On 7 May 1870, he married Lady Harriet Gordon, a daughter of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen and Mary Baillie...
  
  
• Memories of the Months (7 series-1897 through to 1922)
• Story of the Tweed (1905)
• The Making of Scotland (1911)

Also "Lives" of W.H. Smith, Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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, Romney, etc.