Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell

Sir Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell, KC (11 January 1860 – 9 May 1931) was a British barrister and colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of British Honduras and of the Leeward Islands.

The son of the Rev. Joseph Maxwell, Vicar of Pennington, Lancashire and Rector of St Matthew's, Nassau, Bahamas, Maxwell was private educated, before attending Nassau Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Jurisprudence in 1885. He was called to the English bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1884, where he held a first-class studentship in jurisprudence and Roman civil law and a first-class scholarship in equity, and joined the Northern Circuit.

He became acting Attorney-General of British Honduras in 1890, Attorney-General of British Honduras in 1896. He also acted as Chief Justice of British Honduras in 1899, 1902, 1904, and 1906. From 1907 to 1912, he was Chief Justice of British Honduras. He was also for a time Major Commanding, British Honduras Volunteer Force. He was created a King's Counsel for British Honduras in 1905 and knighted in 1911.

In 1912, he became Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, and retired in 1918. He also revised the laws of the Leeward Islands from 1871 to 1888. In retirement, he chaired the commission on riots in Belize in 1919. He died in Nice, France, in 1931.

Maxwell married Adela Drought, daughter of the Rev A. T. Drought, Rector of Clontuskert, Ireland; they had two sons and a daughter.