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than half a century, he found leisure to study the great social 
questions of the day, and was an ardent promoter of Parliamentary 
and burgh reform, free trade, Catholic emancipation, the education 
of the people, and the abolition of slavery. But while he thus took 
a zealous part in every question, and in every iustitution of secular 
interest, he had ever in his view the higher destinies of man. 
He was an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church, and a 
true believer in those great truths which the wisdom of this world 
is unable to comprehend. Without any marked disease, but 
weakened gradually with age, this truly Christian physician and 
philanthropist expired on the 6th June 1865, in the midst of his 
family, lamented by a widow and seven sons, some of whom have 
obtained distinction in the service of their country. 
' Sir John Maxwell of Pollock succeeded his father as ninth 
baronet in 1844, and belonged to the twenty-ninth generation of his 
family. He was born in 1791, and received his early education, 
partly in Scotland, under the Kev. Hr MacLetchie of Mearns, and 
partly in England, at Market-Eaisin, and subsequently at Westmin- 
ster School. In 1809 he entered Christ Church, Oxford, as a 
gentleman commoner, and graduated in that University. In 1812 
he attended several classes in the University of Edinburgh ; and in 
the following year, at the age of twenty-two, he was appointed 
lieutenant-colonel of the Eenfrew militia — an office which he very 
soon resigned, in consequence of the Government refusing to send 
relief to the starving operatives in Paisley. In 1813, 1814, and 1815, 
he made the tour of Europe, visiting part of Africa and Asia, accom- 
panied by Mr John Bramsen, an ex-officer of the Prussian service, 
and afterwards Professor of German in the University of Oxford. A 
journal of his travels is preserved at Pollock ; but a fuller account 
of them was published in 1818 by Professor Bramsen. 
In 1818, Mr Maxwell was elected M.P. for the county of Een- 
frew, and represented that count}?’ in three successive Parliaments. 
In 1831 he contested the county of Lanark with the brother of 
Lord Houglas ; but though defeated on that occasion, he was elected 
for that county in 1832, after the passing of the Eeform Bill, and 
again in 1835. As a Member of Parliament, he took an active part 
in many of the leading measures of the day ; and on several occa- 
