Sir Thomas Buxton, 4th Baronet

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Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet, (8 April 1865 – 31 May 1919) – who went by the name Victor Buxton – was the great-grandson of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a British MP and social reformer, the grandson of Sir Edward North Buxton, also an MP, and the son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the Governor of South Australia.[1]

He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Anne Louisa Matilda O'Rorke on 10 October 1888[1] and they had 7 children: Thomas Fowell (1889), Roden Henry Victor (1890), Clarence Edward Victor (1892), Lucy Victoria, (1893), Jocelyn Murray Victor (1896), Maurice Victor, (1898), and Rupert Erroll Victor (1900). Jocelyn and Maurice died in World War I.[2] Rupert drowned near Oxford at the age of 21 with his close friend Michael Llewelyn Davies, the foster son of writer J. M. Barrie.[3]

Buxton served as Temporary Major in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Volunteer Regiment. He was a Justice of the Peace, and in 1905 the High Sheriff of Essex.[1] He died on 31 May 1919 at age 54.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 626.
  2. ^ thePeerage.com - Person Page 1819
  3. ^ http://jmbarrie.co.uk/allscans/fullsize/1921-05-27-DX-MLD-death-Oxford_Chronicle.jpg

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Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Fowell Buxton		 Buxton Baronet of Belfield
(1915 – 1919)		 Succeeded by
Thomas Fowell Buxton