Alfred Fowell Buxton

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 byCyril Jackson
Succeeded byRobert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
Chairman of the Finance Committee of London County Council
In office
1907
Preceded byReginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby
Succeeded byHayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham
In office
1920
Preceded byGeorge Goldie
Succeeded byJohn Maria Gatti
Personal details
Born(1854-03-28)28 March 1854
Died5 May 1952(1952-05-05) (aged 98)
NationalityBritish

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

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]

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Obituary: Mr. Alfred Buxton". The Times. 7 May 1952. p. 8.
  3. "Buxton, Alfred Fowell (BKSN873AF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. "60: Letitia Chitty". Magnificent Women. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
  5. "The London County Council Election". The Times. 7 March 1892. p. 10.
  6. Jackson, W Eric (1965). Achievement. A Short History of the London County Council. London: Longmans. p. 256.
  7. "Savings on Rates". The Times. 9 March 1916. p. 5.
  8. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, pp. 500, 622
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