Somerset Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham

Somerset Henry Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham (7 March 1849 – 22 November 1900) was an Irish Representative peer and a Nova Scotia baronet.

Biography

He was the son of Richard Thomas Maxwell, and grandson of Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham. He married Lady Florence Jane Taylour, daughter of Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort and Amelia Thompson, on 5 August 1875. He was Captain and Honorary Major of the 4th Battalion of the Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers and sometime Lieutenant of the 98th Regiment. In November 1880 he led a relief force of Orangemen from county Cavan to save the harvest of Captain Boycott of Lough Mask, county Mayo, who was being ostracised by the local Catholic community. This brought about the creation of the Property Defence Association to protect the livelihoods of landowners.^[1]

On his uncle James' death, he succeeded on 26 October 1896 as 10th Baron Farnham and 13th Baronet of Calderwood.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Cavan for 1877 and Lord Lieutenant of Cavan in 1900, but died soon afterwards on 22 November 1900. In his will, he bequeathed the articles in the museum at Farnham in trust to the Royal Dublin Society, and his astronomical telescope in trust for uses in the interest of astronomical science.^[2]

He was succeeded by his son Arthur Maxwell, after his eldest son Barry Maxwell had been killed in a cycling accident.^[3]

Notes

^ "National Library of Ireland - Collection List No. 95 - FARNHAM PAPERS" (PDF). National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
^ "Wills - Baron Farnham". The Times. No. 36719. London. 19 March 1902. p. 9. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
^ Mórdha, P. B. Ó. (1992). "Notes and Comments". Bits and Pieces. 14 (2). Clogher Record: 132. JSTOR 27699347.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. (ISBN 033338847X), ^{[page needed]}
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
Lundy, Darryl. "p. 3224 § 32236 - Somerset Henry Maxwell, 10th Baron Farnham". The Peerage.^{[unreliable source]}

External links

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by James Maxwell	Baron Farnham 1896–1900	Succeeded by Arthur Maxwell
Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Preceded by James Maxwell	Baronet (of Calderwood) 1896–1900	Succeeded by Arthur Maxwell
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon	Representative peer for Ireland 1898–1900	Succeeded by Anthony Francis Nugent, 11th Earl of Westmeath
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Earl of Lanesborough	Lord Lieutenant of Cavan 1900	Succeeded by Edward James Saunderson

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[1] "National Library of Ireland - Collection List No. 95 - FARNHAM PAPERS" (PDF). National Library of Ireland. Retrieved 18 August 2012.

[2] "Wills - Baron Farnham". The Times. No. 36719. London. 19 March 1902. p. 9. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)

[3] Mórdha, P. B. Ó. (1992). "Notes and Comments". Bits and Pieces. 14 (2). Clogher Record: 132. JSTOR 27699347.

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