William Maxfield

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William Maxfield{{rayment-hc|g|2|date=March 2012}} was a British Whig{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor=Craig, F. W. S.

|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig

|title=The Parliaments of England

|origyear=1844-1850

|edition=2nd

|year=1973

|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn=0-900178-13-2

|page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/202 202]

}} politician.

At the 1832 general election he was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Grimsby,{{London Gazette

|issue= 19009

|date=1 January 1833

|page=2

}} defeating the Tory MP Lord Loughborough.{{cite book

|last=Craig

|first=F. W. S.

|author-link= F. W. S. Craig

|title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885

|origyear=1977

|edition= 2nd

|year=1989

|publisher= Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn= 0-900178-26-4

|page=135

}} He stood down at the 1835 general election.