Alfred Fowell Buxton | |
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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 |
Alfred Fowell Buxton (28 March 1854 – 5 May 1952) was a British banker and local politician. [1] [2]
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]
On 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]