Hiram Stevens Maxim - Emigration and Knighthood

Emigration and Knighthood

In 1881, Maxim arrived in England in order to reorganize the London offices of the U.S. Electric Lighting Company. By 1900, his visits back to the United States became infrequent and in that same year, Maxim became a naturalized British subject. In the following year, Queen Victoria bestowed a knighthood upon him. Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901 and the actual knighting was done by Maxim's "friend and new king, Edward VII."