Dates

• Existence: 1889 - 1972

Biography

Joe Harrison Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1889 but travelled to Glasgow where he matriculated at the University of Glasgow in 1907, to study Arts. He graduated in 1910, but returned in 1912 to undertake postgraduate studies. He had married Kathleen Tinney in c.1910, but the couple later separated and Harrison Maxwell remarried. He and Tinney were both teachers, social intellectuals and active members in the Red Clydeside movement of the pre-war period. During World War I, he served as a captain in the Army Pay Department. Following his military service he worked away from home in Airdrie as a teacher at Airdrie Academy for several years before returning to Glasgow University, where he took an English Honours degree in 1928. He remained in Glasgow thereafter, working as a teacher as well as becoming an archaeologist, recognised for significant finds around Glasgow and on Skye. He died in 1972.

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