William Maxwell MP

MP for Linlithgow Burghs 1807-12.  Son of William Maxwell of Carriden (d. 1771, q.v), which the younger Maxwell sold in 1814, and nephew of Patrick Maxwell of Grenada (q.v.). Erstwhile owner of Richmond and Howard's estates under Antigua Claim No. 397, for which his administrator claimed, as well as trust beneficiary of the Preference estate in Grenada, of which his uncle Patrick Maxwell of Grenada had been mortgagee-in-possession until the latter's death c. 1790.

1. MP for Linlithgow Burghs 1807-1812.

2. William Maxwell formerly of Carriden but more recently of Abercromby Place Edinburgh transferred Richmond and Howard's estate to Edward Ellice and William Holden 1816; he had sought permission from Parliament by petition to transfer 322 slaves to Demerara.

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T71/267 pp. 86-87.

1. R. G. Thorne (ed.), The House of Commons, 1790-1820 (5 vols., London, Secker & Warburg for the History of Parliament Trust, 1986) Vol. 4 pp. 574-5; entry acknowledges Maxwell's West India holdings, and characterises them as failing.

2. Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919), Vol. I p. 64.