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Edward Herbert Maxwell
1822–1885
Best known for lively travel writing and a memoir of army life, this 19th-century British officer wrote with an eye for adventure, place, and anecdote. His books move easily from barracks and campaigns to Mediterranean ports and long journeys through the Near East.
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With the Connaught Rangers : in quarters, camp, and on leave
by Edward Herbert Maxwell
About the author
Edward Herbert Maxwell was a 19th-century British soldier and writer, born in 1822 and dead on February 24, 1885. Available reference sources identify him as General Edward Herbert Maxwell, the son of Lt.-Col. Sir William Maxwell of Monreith and Catharine Fordyce; they also note that he married Agnes Morgan Hay in 1865 and received distinctions including C.B. and the Legion of Honour.
As an author, he is best remembered for With the Connaught Rangers: in Quarters, Camp, and on Leave and Griffin Ahoy!: A Yacht Cruise to the Levant and Wanderings in Egypt, Syria, the Holy Land, Greece, and Italy, in 1881. Those titles show the two sides of his writing: one rooted in military experience and regimental life, the other in curious, wide-ranging travel.
His books suggest a narrator who enjoyed detail, movement, and the human side of events. Even today, they offer readers a vivid period voice—part memoir, part travel record, and part window into the world of a well-traveled Victorian officer.