Henry Maynard, 3rd Viscount Maynard

Maynard was appointed captain of the Western Battalion of the Essex Militia on 6 March 1808.

[1] On 30 January 1809, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Essex[2] and resigned his militia commission on 25 April.

The following year he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Essex,[4] a post he held until his death.

[citation needed] Their son, Colonel the Honourable Charles Henry Maynard, died in January 1865, leaving only daughters.

Lord Maynard survived his son by four months and died in May 1865, aged 77, when the viscountcy became extinct.