Thomas Buxton, 4th Baronet

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Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet ( April 8, 1865 - May 31, 1919 ), also known as Victor Buxton , - was the great-grandson of Thomas Buxton , a British MP and social reformer, the grandson of Edward Buxton, 2 Baronet , also a Member of Parliament and the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet , a Governor of South Australia . He completed his bachelor's degree at Trinity College , Cambridge in 1887. On October 10, 1888, he married Anne Louisa Matilda O'Rorke and they had seven children: Thomas Foxwell (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 the First World War . Rupert drowned at the age of 21 with his friend Michael Llewelyn Davies , the foster child of the writer JM Barrie , at Sandford Lasher on Sandford Lock near Oxford . The site of the accident was known to be dangerous and was equipped with warning signs and reminders of previous deaths. Friends and family suspected it was either an accident or a double suicide.

Buxton served with the temporary use in the rank of Major (Temporary Major) in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Volunteer Regiment, was a magistrate and 1905 High Sheriff of Essex . In 1915, on the death of his father, he inherited the title of Baronet , of Belfield in the County of Dorset and of Runton in the County of Norfolk. He died on May 31, 1919 as a result of an accident with his car.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Charles Mosley: Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. 107th edition, 3 volumes. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington, Delaware, USA 2003, Volume 1, p. 626.
  2. ^ Buxton, Thomas . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 1 : Abbey – Challis . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1940, pp. 483 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ Paul Goldsack: River Thames. In the Footsteps of the Famous. English Heritage / Bradt, Bucks 2003, ISBN 1-84162-044-0 .
  5. ↑ a b Rupert Buxton at Neverpedia.
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Buxton Baronet, of Belfield and Runton
1915-1919 		Thomas Buxton
personal data
SURNAME Buxton, Thomas, 4th Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buxton, Thomas Fowell Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and justice of the peace
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1865
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1919