John Preston Maxwell
John Preston Maxwell (5 December 1871 – 25 July 1961), son of
John Preston Maxwell was born on 5 December 1871 in
English Presbyterian Church and, in about 1898, went to Fujian in China, where he spent the majority of his professional life. He worked at Yungchun Hospital, Fujian, from 1899 to 1919, and Changpoo, Amoy
.
He specialised in
Chinese Republic and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929. Maxwell returned to England at some point after 1935 (possibly as a result of the invasion of Beijing by the Japanese in 1937) and lived at Brinkley, Cambridgeshire. He was elected consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the nearby Newmarket General Hospital
. He married Edith Lilly Isaacson in 1899 (who, as a proficient artist, illustrated some of her husband's research papers) and they had one daughter, Marjorie Gordon Maxwell (later Steen), born in 1908. John Maxwell died suddenly near his home on 25 July 1961, at the age of 89, his wife having predeceased him on 14 October 1954.
A species of Chinese snake, Opisthotropis maxwelli, is named in his honor.[2]
Archives
Papers of John Preston Maxwell are held at the Cadbury Research Library (University of Birmingham) along with papers of his father, James Laidlaw Maxwell.[3]
References
- ^ Maxwell, John Preston - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. "Maxwell", pp. 171-172.
- ^ "UoB Calmview5: Search results". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
External links
- entry of John Preston Maxwell at Mundus Archived 2004-07-25 at the Wayback Machine
- entry of John Preston Maxwell at the National Register of Archives
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