50 Transactions. 



Galloway. No other name in Galloway, except the Gordons, is 

 in connection with a like number of separate estates in the 

 historian's chronicle ; and the larger proportion of the large 

 landlords of this name trace their jiedigree back to Roland and 

 his Maxwell spouse. 



John Clark Maxwell, the celebrated Professor of Physics, 

 Cambridge, fell heir to his estate of Glenlair, in Parton, through 

 Agnes Maxwell of Middlebie marrying John Clark at the end of 

 last century. In 1702 Captain William Maxwell and Nicolas 

 Stewart, his spouse, had sasine in liferent, and Mr Maxwell, 

 their eldest son, in fee, of the lands and barony of Cairdines or 

 Cardoness, parish of Anwoth, which estate is retained by a 

 descendant. There is another proprietory name in Anwoth a 

 Maxwell. 



In Buittle, Well wood Herries Maxwell of Munches and 

 Terraughtie is the successor of Robert Maxwell, to whom 

 <^ueen Margaret, daughter of Henry VI. of England, gave a 

 grant of aforesaid lands, reft from the Douglases 1455. This 

 Maxwell was tutor to her son. This family has lands in the 

 parishes of Urr, Troqueer, and Buittle. 



Herbert Constable Maxwell Stuart of Terregles is descended 

 from Agnes, daughter of Lord Herries, who married John 

 Maxwell, and, in right of his wife, became fourth Lord Herries, 

 circa 1566. 



The Maxwells of Glenlee acquired that property about forty 

 years ago. It was bought by Dr Johnstone, whose son assumed 

 the name of Maxwell. So we may call Glenlee a ghost-Maxwell. 



The name of Robert Maxwell Witham of Kirkconnell, Troqueer, 

 carries us a long way back. Janet de Kirkconnell married, circa 

 1430, Aymer de Maxwell. Dorothy Maxwell, the sole surviving 

 daughter of the house, married, 1844, her cousin, R. S. J. 

 Witham. Hence the double name. 560 years is a long term 

 for unbroken succession. 



The late Captain A. P. Constable Maxwell of Kirkland is 

 descended from the old Maxwell stock. A son of the Earl of 

 Nithsdale, who escaped from the Tower, married his cousin- 

 german, C. Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Traquair, and 

 Winifred, her daughter, married W. Constable, baronet, Durham 

 which accounts for the double name. The estates of Captain C. 

 Maxwell are at present administeieil by Trustees, 



