SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Dr William Maxwell of Gt Portland St proposed member 18.5.1792 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Williams
William Maxwell of Kirkconnell 1760-1834 see Robert Burns (DNB 1759-1796) and "William Maxwell to Robert Burns" by Robert Donald Thornton (1979). London Chronicle 13.9.1792 "several public advertisements from Dr William Maxwell, calling a meeting of the people, at his house, No. 73, Great Portland-street, to enter into a subscription to support the people of France against their enemies". Morning Post 4.2.1795 steward at Friends of Freedom dinner to celebrate outcome of treason trials, William Maxwell, Linlithgowshire - I presume this was not the doctor, who lived at Dumfries and with his cousin near Aberdeen both far from Linlithgow, and was probably lying low politically at this point. Caledonian Mercury 24.9.1807 game certificates Dr William Maxwell, physician, Dumfries. Morning Chronicle 1.11.1834 death of Dr William Maxwell and anecdote of him and Burns