The Maxwell, later Stirling-Maxwell Baronetcy, of Pollock in the County of Renfrew, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 12 April 1682 for John Maxwell, with remainder to the heirs of the body. In 1707 he was given a new patent extending the remainder to heirs of entail in his lands and estates. Maxwell was the member of an ancient Scottish family that also included the Earls of Nithsdale

Earl of Nithsdale

Earl of Nithsdale was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1620 for Robert Maxwell, 9th Lord Maxwell, with remainder to heirs male. He was made Lord Maxwell, Eskdale and Carlyle at the same time...

. One early member of the family, Sir John Maxwell, of Pollok, fought at the Battle of Otterburn

Battle of Otterburn

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 in 1388, where he notably captured Sir Ralph Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland

Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland

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 and brother of the commander of the English army, Sir Henry Percy

Henry Percy

Sir Henry Percy, also called Harry Hotspur KG was the eldest son of Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, 4th Lord Percy of Alnwick. His mother was Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Alice de Audley. His nickname, 'Hotspur', is suggestive of his impulsive...

, known as the "Hotspur

Hotspur (disambiguation)

Hotspur is the name or nickname of:*Sir Henry Percy , known as Harry Hotspur, eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland and prominent English commander during the Anglo-Scottish wars and the Glendower uprising....

". The seventh Baronet sat as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Paisley

Paisley (UK Parliament constituency)

Paisley was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1983, when it was divided into Paisley North and Paisley South...

. The eighth Baronet represented Renfrewshire

Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Renfrewshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 until 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885....

 and Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the House of Commons

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. The ninth Baronet succeeded as heir of entail and assumed the additional surname of Maxwell. He was Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 Member of Parliament for Perthshire

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 and was made a Knight of the Thistle

Order of the Thistle

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. The tenth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Glasgow College

Glasgow College (UK Parliament constituency)

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 and was also made a Knight of the Thistle. On his death in 1956 the baronetcy became dormant. His daughter, Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald (1906-2011) was recognised by Lyon Court in 2005 as 11th holder of the baronetcy under the 1707 remainder, and therefore succeeded her father in 1956. (See page B 599 of the Baronetage section of the latest edition of Debrett.) On her death in 2011, she was succeeded by her eldest son John Ronald Maxwell Macdonald, born 1936.

Archibald Stirling of Keir (1867-1931), second son of the ninth Baronet, was a Brigadier-General in the British Army

British Army

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Maxwell, later Stirling-Maxwell Baronets, of Pollok (1682/1707)

• Sir John Maxwell, 1st Baronet (1648-1732)
• Sir John Maxwell, 2nd Baronet (1686-1752)
• Sir John Maxwell, 3rd Baronet (1720-1758)
• Sir Walter Maxwell, 4th Baronet (1732-1762)
• Sir John Maxwell, 5th Baronet (1761-1762)
• Sir James Maxwell, 6th Baronet (1735-1785)
• Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet
  Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet
  Sir John Maxwell, 7th Baronet, of Pollok was a Member of Parliament for Paisley from 10 December 1832 until resigning in 1834....
  
   (1768-1844)
• Sir John Maxwell, 8th Baronet (1791-1865)
• Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet (1818-1878)
• Sir John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet (1866-1956)
• Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, 11th Baronetess (1906-2011)
• Sir John Ronald Maxwell Macdonald, 12th Baronet (1936- )