William Henry Maxwell was an officer of the Royal Navy who rose to the rank of Admiral.
[1] He served in the frigate HMS Euryalus (1853) in the Baltic Campaign in 1854–1856, and was appointed Midshipman in 1856.
[1] He was promoted to Mate, then to the rank of Lieutenant, in January 1860, when he was serving in HMS Boscawen (1844) on the Cape of Good Hope Station from May 1856 to March 1860.
[2] In December 1880, the Emerald was sent to investigate the death of Lieutenant Bower and four crew of the schooner HMS Sandfly who were killed in the Nggela Islands in October 1880.
[1] Maxwell was appointed as the Commodore in Charge at Hong Kong from February 1887 to December 1888.