3-074-594 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Sir Henry Maxse, Governor of Newfoundland, 1883. Engraving from a photograph by G. Friederichs. 'Sir Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley Maxse, K.C.M.G., who died in that island on the 8th inst., was just fifty years of age...He entered the Army in 1849, and served in the 2nd Battalion of Coldstream Guards, holding the commission of Captain, in the Crimean War, but obtained brevet rank of Major in July, 1855, being then aide-de-camp to Lord Cardigan; he fought in the battles of the Alma and Balaclava; and the gallantry of "Maxse's Ride," in carrying a message, alone, through the Russian lines from the British Commander-in-Chief to Admiral Lord Lyons, was celebrated at the time both in prose and verse. In the famous charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava he got a most honourable wound. Major Maxse was raised to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1858. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Heligoland in 1863, and remained in that Governorship till the spring of 1881, when he was promoted to be Governor of Newfoundland. In 1877 he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, which is a distinction bestowed peculiarly for public services connected with the British Colonies'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.