Sir Thomas Buxton, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Buxton, 4th Baronet

Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet, (8 April 186531 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."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. ]

He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Anne Louisa Matilda O'Rorke on 10 October 1888 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. [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p1819.htm#i18183 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1819 ] ] Rupert drowned near Oxford at the age of 21 with his close friend Michael Llewelyn Davies, the foster son of writer J. M. Barrie. [http://jmbarrie.co.uk/allscans/fullsize/1921-05-27-DX-MLD-death-Oxford_Chronicle.jpg]

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. He died on 31 May 1919 at age 54.

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