Frederick Charles Maisey

Autoportrait of Frederick Charles Maisey at Juma Masjid, Chanderi in 1850. Frederick Charles Maisey (1825–1892) was an English army officer, archaeological surveyor and painter, active in India. who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and was a founding member (treasurer), later president, of the New Watercolour Society.

Career Maisey was a lieutenant in the British Army circa 1850 in the Bengal Native Infantry, and participated to the British exploration of India. Maisey was in charge of the excavation of Sanchi in 1851, working with fellow English officer Alexander Cunningham.

Maisey reached the rank of General on December 1, 1888.

His son, also Frederick Charles Maisey, became a lieutenant-colonel, whose career included serving with the 30th Punjab Infantry. In 1895- whilst serving in the campaign to relieve Chitral- he excavated the Buddhist site of Dargai at the southern foot of the Malakand Pass in Pakistan.

Works Sánchi and its remains : a full description of the ancient buildings, sculptures, and inscriptions at Sánchi, near Bhilsa, in Central India, with remarks on the evidence they supply as to the comparatively modern date of the Buddhism of Gotama, or Sákya Muni