George Ritchie Maxwell
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George Ritchie Maxwell (11 January 1857 – 17 November 1902) was a Canadian Presbyterian minister and politician.
Born in Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, he was ordained a minister of the Church of Scotland in 1880. He migrated to Canada in 1885 serving as a minister in Quebec eventually setting in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1890. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the British Columbia riding of Burrard in 1896. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1900. He died in office in 1902 from intestinal cancer.
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