Maxwell, John

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Dates 1639-1640; c.1641-1645
Location London; Oxford
Vocation Minister; bishop
Place of Birth Kirkcudbrightshire
Marriage Elizabeth Innes
Issue John; David; James; Robert; Anne; Janet; Elizabeth; Rachel; Bethia
Place of birth Source H. Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1915–28), vii, 355

Fled to England (1639). In favour with Charles I, who appointed him to the Church of Ireland as bishop of Killala and Achonry (1640). Ejected during the Irish Rising (1641), after which he joined Charles at Oxford. Bishop of Tuam (1645).