Frederick Maxse

Frederick Maxse was an Admiral in the Royal Navy, and radical liberal campaigner. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1867, but failed in his attempts to get elected to Parliament in 1868 and 1874. Maxse was active in various radical causes including the Charity Orgainsation Society, John Stuart Mill's Land Tenure Reform Association, the National Education League and the Eastern Question Association, founded to campaign against the atrocities of the Ottoman Empire during the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876. He also founded the Electoral Reform Association which campaigned for the equalisation of parliamentary constituencies.

Maxse was a friend of Joseph Chamberlain, and his 1873 pamphlet The Causes of Social Revolt became the basis of Chamberlain's radical programme of 1885.