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John Maxwell

British Army general

Born on: July 12, 1859
Died on: February 21, 1929
Aged: 69 years 224 days (835 months)
Birth Sign: Cancer

 

John Maxwell

General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He served in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and in the First World War.

As Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, he was one of the commanders in the repression of the 1916 Easter Rising, including overseeing the courts-martial after the rebellion.

Maxwell retired in 1922.


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