MAXSE

Sir Henry Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley (son of James Maxse of Effing ham hall, Surrey, d. 1864). b. 1832; ensign grenadier guards 1 June 1849; lieut. cold stream guards 19 Jany. 1855, placed on h.p. as major 16 March 1858; aide de camp to lord Cardigan in Crime an war 1855; wounded at battle of Balaklava; lieut.-col. in the army 6 July 1863, sold out 22 Dec. 1863; lieut. governor of Heligoland 1863, governor Feb. 1864 to 6 July 1881, the reformed constitution was established 1868 and the gaming tables abolished 1870; governor of Newfoundland 6 July 1881 to death; C.M.G. 28 May 1874, K.C.M.G. 1 May 1877; author of Beschwerdeschrift der Heligolander Bürgerschaft wider den Gouverneur Maxse 1866. d. St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Sep. 1883. I.L.N. lxxxiii 333 (1885), portrait .