Sir Thomas Buxton, 4th Baronet

Early life

Career

Personal life

• Thomas Fowell Buxton, who served in World War I, became a barrister, and succeeded his father as 5th baronet in 1919.
• Roden Henry Victor Buxton, who served in the Royal Navy in both World Wars, retiring with the rank of Captain and invested as a Commander, Order of the British Empire.
• Clarence Edward Victor Buxton, attended Eton College, where he was an award winning rower, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He gained the rank of Major during World War I. Settling in Kenya after the war, he served as a Commissioner in the Masai District and in 1937 became Acting Provincial Commissioner. He was seconded to Palestine as Acting District Commissioner in 1938, followed by his retirement from the Colonial Service in March 1940.
• Lucy Victoria Buxton, who married diplomat Charles Henry Bentinck.
• Jocelyn Murray Victor Buxton, attended Marlborough College. He served as a 2nd Lieutenant attached to the Rifle Brigade and died on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Buxton's "A Trench Narrative" was read at the 100th Anniversary of the Somme service at Westminster Abbey on 01 July 2016.
• Maurice Victor Buxton, attended Eton College where he was Captain of the Boats and President of Pop, left Trinity College Cambridge to be commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards during World War I. He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in the Battle of Maubeuge in November 1918. Buxton died of pneumonia on 08 August 1919 less than a month after rowing with his brother Charles in the Paris Inter-Allied Games.
• Rupert Erroll Victor Buxton, who drowned near Oxford at the age of 21 with his close friend Michael Llewelyn Davies.

Descendants