William Hamilton Maxwell (30 June 1792 in Newry, County Down, Ireland – 29 December 1850 in Musselburgh, Scotland) was an Irish novelist.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He claimed to have entered the British Army and seen service in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, but this is generally believed to be untrue.[1] Afterwards he took orders, but was deprived of his living for non-residence.
His novels, O'Hara (1825), and Stories from Waterloo (1834) started the school of rollicking military fiction, which culminated in the novels of Charles Lever. Maxwell also wrote a Life of the Duke of Wellington (1839–1841), and a History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (1845) - written in a spirit hostile to the rebels, and accompanied with similarly hostile illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Maxwell married Mary Dobbin, daughter of Thomas Dobbin.[2]
^"Maxwell, William Hamilton" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1912, page 183
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