Alfred Fowell Buxton (28 March 1854 – 5 May 1952) was a British banker and local politician.[1][2]
Alfred Fowell Buxton | |
|---|---|
| Chairman of the London County Council | |
| In office 1916–1917 | |
| Preceded by | Cyril Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe |
| Chairman of the Finance Committee of London County Council | |
| In office 1907 | |
| Preceded by | Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby |
| Succeeded by | Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham |
| In office 1920 | |
| Preceded by | George Goldie |
| Succeeded by | John Maria Gatti |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 March 1854 |
| Died | 5 May 1952 (aged 98) |
| Nationality | British |
He was the son of Thomas Fowell Buxton and his wife Rachel Jane née Gurney of Easneye House near Ware, Hertfordshire.[2] He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1877.[1][2][3] He was to retain strong links with Rugby: he married Violet Jex-Blake, daughter of the school's then headmaster, Thomas Jex-Blake in 1885 and from 1906 to 1936 was one of the school's governors.[1][2] Violet Buxton OBE was the niece of Sophia Jex-Blake, suffragist and first woman medical graduate in UK.[4]
Career
editOn leaving Cambridge Buxton entered banking in the City of London, eventually becoming an extraordinary director of the National Provincial Bank.[2][3] He joined the board of the Alliance Assurance Company in 1919, retiring in 1948, aged 94.[2]
In 1892 he was elected to the London County Council as one of four councillors representing the City of London.[5] He served a single three-year term until 1895, but returned to the council as an alderman in 1904, serving until 1922.[6] In 1916–1917 he was Chairman of the County Council.[7]
Outside politics and business, Buxton was a leading member of the Church of England: he was a member of House of Laity of the General Synod, and of the Church of England Pensions Board.[2][3] He made his home at Fairhill, Hildenborough, near Tonbridge, Kent.[1][3] He had three children: Patrick Alfred Buxton, who became the Director of Entomology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Denis Alfred Jex, a wing commander in the Royal Air Force and amateur archaeologist and Violet Elizabeth.[1] A great-great-granddaughter is Dame Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service.[8]
Buxton died in 1952 aged 98.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Lundy, Darryl. "Alfred Fowell Buxton". thepeerage.com A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe. Retrieved 12 March 2012.[unreliable source]
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Obituary: Mr. Alfred Buxton". The Times. 7 May 1952. p. 8.
- ^ a b c d "Buxton, Alfred Fowell (BKSN873AF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "60: Letitia Chitty". Magnificent Women. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ "The London County Council Election". The Times. 7 March 1892. p. 10.
- ^ Jackson, W Eric (1965). Achievement. A Short History of the London County Council. London: Longmans. p. 256.
- ^ "Savings on Rates". The Times. 9 March 1916. p. 5.
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, pp. 500, 622