Alfred Fowell Buxton

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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]

On leaving Cambridge he 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.[4] He served a single three-year term until 1895, but returned to the council as an alderman in 1904, serving until 1922.[5] In 1916-1917 he was Chairman of the County Council.[6]

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, 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]

Buxton died in 1952 aged 98.[2]

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Political offices
Preceded by Chairman of the London County Council
1916 – 1917
Succeeded by
Marquess of Crewe