General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He served in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and in the First World War. As Commander-in-Chief,
Maxwell in 1916
Memorial to General Sir John Maxwell and Louise Selina Maxwell in the crypt at York Minster.
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
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Francis Joseph Christopher Sheehy-Skeffington was an Irish writer and radical activist well known in Dublin in the decade before the 1916 Easter Rising. Through his speeches and freelance journalism,
John Maxwell (British Army officer)
…Maxwell persuaded the government in Westminster to have Captain John Bowen-Colthurst tried for the murders of Thomas Dickson, Patrick MacIntyre and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington by court martial rather than by civil court. For this trial, the official transcript was never published, but the court martial was held in open court…
The shop at Kelly's Corner, as it appears today
The grave of Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin.
Francis Sheehy Skeffington, depicted on street art in Dublin, in the neighborhood of Rathmines where he lived and where he was killed.
Hanna and Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, in 1916.