Background
MAXWELL, Richard Ponsonby was born on October 21, 1853. Son of late Reverend Charleton Maxwell.
MAXWELL, Richard Ponsonby was born on October 21, 1853. Son of late Reverend Charleton Maxwell.
Winchester; St. John’s College Cambridge.
Entered F.0.1877; acting 3rd Secretary, 1880. Assisted British Agent on Behring Sea Arbitration, Paris, 1893. Private Secretary to Sir T. H. Sanderson, 1894-1896.
Assistant Clerk, 1896. Secretary to British Plenipotentiaries at Peace Conference, The Hague, 1899. Acting Secretary of Legation, 1899.
Acting Senior Clerk, 1900. Senior Clerk Foreign Office.
Clubs: Travellers’, St. James’s.