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==Personal life== Privately homosexual,<ref>{{cite book |last=Frere |first=Richard |title=Maxwell's Ghost |publisher=[[Victor Gollancz]] |year=1976 |pages=65β66 |isbn=0-575-02044-X}}</ref> Maxwell married Lavinia Renton (daughter of [[Alan Lascelles|The Right Honourable Sir Alan Lascelles]] and granddaughter of [[Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford|Viscount Chelmsford]], Wilfred Thesiger's uncle) on 1 February 1962. The marriage lasted little more than a year and they divorced in 1964. According to [[Douglas Botting]], Maxwell suffered from [[bipolar disorder]] throughout his life.<ref name="Botting">Douglas Botting, ''Gavin Maxwell, A Life'', HarperCollins 1993 ({{ISBN|0-246-13046-6}}).</ref>
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