Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Alston Maxton, Baron Maxton (born 5 May 1936) is a Scottish politician. Maxton was a Labour backbench Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons. He is a nephew of the former Independent Labour Party leader, James Maxton. His father, also John Maxton, was a conscientious objector in World War I, and the younger John Maxton was a conscientious objector in the 1950s.