WILLIAM HAMILTON MAXWELL BIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM HAMILTON MAXWELL BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
MAXWELL, WILLIAM HAMILTON (1792-1850). —Novelist, a Scoto-Irishman, born at Newry, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, entered the army, and saw service in the Peninsula, and at Waterloo. Afterwards he took orders, but was deprived of his living for non-residence. His novels, O'Hara , and Stories from Waterloo , started the school of rollicking military fiction, which culminated in the novels of Lever. M. also wrote a Life of the Duke of Wellington, and a History of the Irish Rebellion .