Lord John Roxton

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Lord John Roxton is a supporting character in the Professor Challenger series of books by Arthur Conan Doyle. He makes his first appearance in the first of this series, The Lost World, when he is a member of the expedition to the eponymous land of the title, and is a prominent character in the subsequent novels as well.

Roxton has travelled the world, as a hunter in addition to his pursuits as an explorer in the main bodies of the novels. Being an enemy of slavery, he made enemies in Brazil in his campaign against that institution, a fact which comes into play over the course of the plot of The Lost World.