Somerset Maxwell (King's Lynn MP)

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Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset Arthur Maxwell (20 January 1905 – 30 December 1942) was a British Conservative politician and army officer. He was the eldest son of Arthur Kenlis Maxwell, 11th Baron Farnham. In 1930 he married Angela Susan Roberts, who died in Jamaica in 1953.

Maxwell was elected Member of Parliament for the King's Lynn constituency in Norfolk at the 1935 general election, taking the seat from Lord Fermoy, who had held it since 1924. From the 1920s he served as an officer in the Middlesex Yeomanry (2nd Cavalry Divisional Signals).

He died of wounds received in action at El Alamein during World War II, on 30 December 1942, aged 37. In the February 1943 by-election, Lord Fermoy was re-elected as MP for King's Lynn.