Frederick Augustus Maxse
1833–1900
Naval officer and radical politician. Entered the navy in 1852; commander, 1855; retired, 1867; rear-admiral, 1875. Following his experience in the Crimean War, became a political radical. Represented Dorking on the new Surrey County Council, 1889–95. Wrote political articles and pamphlets.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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