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Francis William Buxton (5 August 1847 – 14 November 1911) was a British barrister and
Liberal Party politician.
Buxton was the son of
Sir Edward Buxton, 2nd Baronet, and the grandson of the anti-slavery campaigner
Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet. His mother was Catherine, daughter of
Samuel Gurney, while
Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, was his elder brother,
Charles Buxton his uncle,
Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton, his nephew and
Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, his first cousin. He was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating
B.A. in 1869 before training for the bar at
Lincoln's Inn.
Called to the Bar in 1874, he became a partner in the London banking firm of Prescott and Company. Between 1880 and 1885 he sat as
Member of Parliament for
Andover. He was also a
Justice of the Peace for the
County of London and
Hertfordshire, a Public Works Loan Commissiioner in 1893 and a member of the London School Board from 1899 to 1904. He was also a member of the council of the
Girls' Public Day School Company,1886–1903, and one of its vice-presidents from 1903.
Buxton married the Hon. Mary Emma, daughter of
John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, in 1872. One of their sons, John Lawrence Buxton, was a
Brigadier in the
British Army. Buxton died in
Marylebone,
London in November 1911, aged 64. His wife was appointed an
OBE in 1918. She died in February 1939.