Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse KCMG (1 January 1832 – 10 September 1883) was a British Army officer of the Crimean War and colonial official who was Governor of Newfoundland.

[1] Maxse was commissioned lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in 1849 and transferred to the 13th Light Dragoons and then the 21st Foot in 1852.

Most of his term as governor was spent in Germany with his wife, Auguste von Rudloff (d.1915).

A noted German-language scholar, he published an English translation of Bismarck's Letters to his Wife and Sisters.

Maxse died as a result of the injuries he suffered at the Battle of Balaclava.