Sir Reginald Maitland Maxwell, GCIE KCSI (24 August 1882 – 29 July 1967) was a British administrator in India.
[3] On his mother's side, his grandparents were the long-time proprietors of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.
[1][2][3] He passed into the Indian Civil Service by examination in 1905, arrived in India in November 1906, and spent the next 30 years in the Bombay Presidency.
[1] He retired from the ICS in 1944 and returned to the United Kingdom, where he was appointed Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, which he held until Indian independence in 1947.
[1] Maxwell was also a noted collector of butterflies, giving 6,000 specimens to the Natural History Museum in London between 1950 and 1967.