Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham

In 1823, Robert Peel, then Home Secretary, commented that "such men as Mr. Henry Maxwell, drawing enormous sums from Irish livings, and leading a profligate life at Boulogne, are the real enemies of the establishment".

[1] In 1827, the liberal lawyer George Ensor was asked James Warren Doyle, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, to investigate claims of hundreds of tenants converting to Protestantism on the Farnham estate.

[2] Maxwell, meanwhile, moved a resolution for establishing a subscription for the loyalist Brunswick Club at the county meeting in Cavan and was prominent in Protestant activities there and in Dublin, where he had become secretary of the Orange Order.

[1] In the Great Famine from 1845, the estate again accused of souperism—Maxwell (now Lord Farnham) was opening his soup kitchens only to those who would abjure their Catholic faith and take Anglican communion in the established Church of Ireland.

They in the front carriage of the London to Holyhead express at Chester when it collided with a goods train carrying petroleum.

Statue of The Rt Hon. Henry, 7th Baron Farnham , K.P. This statue stands outside the Johnston Central Library on Farnham Street in Cavan Town . It depicts Lord Farnham wearing the mantle and robes of a Knight of St. Patrick . The statue originally stood in the now long gone Farnham Gardens, which were on the opposite side of Farnham Street, slightly further along the street.