Under Secretary of State Alexander Maxwell Hand Signed Card JG Autographs COA

  

His item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. (9 March 1880 - 1 July 1963) was a. Notable for his service as.

Maxwell was a hard worker and a superb administrator who was well regarded by his department and was particularly interested in civil liberty, even during the height of the. Alexander Maxwell was born at Sharston Mount.

On 9 March 1880, the eldest son of the Revd Joseph Matthew Townsend Maxwell, a Congregational minister, and his wife, Louisa Maria Brely Snell, a Quaker GP. He obtained first classes in. He won the Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize in 1904 and the chancellor's English essay prize in 1905.

In 1904, where he was private secretary to successive secretaries of state. In 1917 Maxwell was acting chief inspector of reformatory and industrial schools and it was probably at this time that he became interested in delinquency. In 1924 he was made an assistant secretary and in 1928 when he became chairman of the.

On the concept of the open. The idea was Paterson's but the administration was done by Maxwell. The first open borstal was started in 1930 at. In 1932 Maxwell became deputy under-secretary of state at the Home Office.