Person
John Maxwell (British Army officer)
British Army officer and colonial governor
General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, GCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO, PC (Ire) (July 11, 1859 – February 21, 1929) is a British Army officer and colonial governor.
He serves in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and in the First World War, but he is best known for ordering the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
He retires in 1922.