Background
Eldest son of Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Eldest son of Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham.
Barry Owen Somerset Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham. Simon Kenlis Maxwell, 13th Baron Farnham
Sheelin Virginia Maxwell, Viscountess Knollys. In December 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell died of wounds received in action at El Alamein on active service in World World War II, aged 37.
At the resulting by-election in February 1943, Lord Fermoy was re-elected.
In the morning of the new Year"s Eve we had news that Lieutenant Colonel The Honorable Somerset A. Maxwell, O.C. Middlesex Yeomanry, sometime Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for War, and Member of Parliament for Kings Lynn had died at 2030 hours the previous night following wounds sustained in action.
The funeral was to be the same afternoon and as the cemetery was nearby we old originals turned out. When we arrived our party brought the M.Y. contingent up to 30 exclusive of bearer party and officers.
The plain coffin was slid off the ambulance on to the shoulders of 8 NCOs and OCTU cadets and preceded by the chaplain passed through the ranks of the firing party who stood at the Present.
Behind followed General Penney, CSO.ME., Colonel Messel, former Commanding Officer of the unit and several other officers of ours, after them came ourselves who have served under him for so long, the journey was short but at the slow march it seemed a long way, we formed up round the coffin on which the flag trembled in the wind. The service was almost inaudible as planes taking off nearby drowned everything, except the words of the 23rd. Psalm. They lowered the coffin into the grave, and the escort fired three rounds into the air and the bugler"s sobbing notes ran from Last Post to Reveille.
The wreaths were placed and one by one we stepped up to the grave and made our last salutes.
37th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the King"s Lynn constituency in Norfolk at the 1935 general election, succeeding the Conservative Member of Parliament Lord Fermoy, who had held the seat since the 1924 election.