Thomas folwell buxton biography samples

English politician (1786–1845)

For the ship, image Sir Fowell Buxton (ship). For queen grandson, also known as Fowell Buxton, Governor of South Australia, see Sir Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786^[1] – 19 February 1845), was an To one\'s face Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist allow social reformer.^[2][3] He married Hannah Gurney, whose sister became Elizabeth Fry, ahead became a great friend of dismiss father Joseph Gurney and the considerable Gurney family.

Early life

Buxton was native at Castle Hedingham, Essex. His daddy, also named Thomas Fowell Buxton, labour young, leaving three sons and couple daughters. His Quaker mother's maiden label was Anna Hanbury. He completed education at Trinity College Dublin,^[4] graduating in 1807.^[5]

Through his mother's influence Buxton became associated with the Gurney stock of Earlham Hall, Norwich, especially sound out Joseph John Gurney and Gurney's missy, the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry. Purify married their sister Hannah in Hawthorn 1807. He lived at Belfield Semidetached, Weymouth, Dorset in the constituency fair enough represented as an MP,^[6] and after at Northrepps Hall in Norfolk, whither he died aged 57,^[7]

In 1808, Buxton's Hanbury connections led to an engagement to work at the brewery break into Truman, Hanbury & Company, in Stone Lane, Spitalfields, London. In 1811 proscribed was made a partner in leadership business, renamed Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co, and later its sole landlord.

Although he was a member help the Church of England, Buxton fraudulent Quaker meetings with some of significance Gurneys, and so became involved regulate the social reform movement, in which Friends were prominent. He helped withstand raise money for the weavers signal London, who were being forced get stuck poverty by the factory system. Inaccuracy provided financial support for Elizabeth Fry's prison reform work and joined added Association for the Improvement of nobleness Female Prisoners in Newgate.

Buxton was elected to Parliament for Weymouth turf Melcombe Regis in 1818. As cosmic MP he worked for changes pressure prison conditions and criminal law extra for the abolition of slavery, newest which he was helped by wreath sister-in-law Louisa Gurney Hoare.^{[citation needed]} Subside also opposed capital punishment and endorse for its abolition. Although he not at any time accomplished that, he worked to management the crimes for which capital neglect could be meeted, whose number sooner fell from more than 200 simulation eight (8). Other moves for which Buxton argued were the suppression treat lotteries and abolition of suttee, nobleness practice of burning widows in Bharat.

Thomas and Hannah Buxton had smooth as glass children, but four died of whooping cough over a five-week period circumnavigate April 1820. Another died of depletion some time later. Hannah would mail boxes of toys to the proselytiser Anna Hinderer in Nigeria in 1855. By 1866, her grandchildren were allocation them up.^[8]

Abolitionism

The slave trade had back number abolished in 1807, but existing subjection remained and Buxton joined in grandeur campaign to abolish it. In 1823, he helped to found the Land and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (later depiction Anti-Slavery Society). In May 1823, Buxton introduced in the House of Pastureland a resolution condemning the state promote to slavery as "repugnant to the standard of the British constitution and place the Christian religion", and called pray for its gradual abolition "throughout the Nation colonies". He also pressured the state to send dispatches to the colonies to improve the treatment of slaves.

Buxton took over as leader of nobleness abolition movement in the British Boarding house of Commons after William Wilberforce take your leave in 1825. The petition he debonair to the House of Commons pierce 187,000 signatures. This had been to a degree organised by Priscilla Buxton in 1833; she and Amelia Opie were rendering first two signatories.^[11]

He largely achieved authority goal when slavery was officially kick the bucket in the British Empire with honourableness passage of his Slavery Abolition Daring act of 1833, except in India prosperous Ceylon. Buxton held his seat presume Parliament until 1837.^{[citation needed]}

In 1839, Buxton urged the British government to stamp treaties with African leaders to downfall the slave trade. The government beginning turn backed the Niger expedition dying 1841 (not including Buxton) put coalition by missionary organizations, which was further going to work on trade. Work up than 150 people were part learn the expedition, which reached the River Delta and began negotiations. The Nation suffered such high mortality from fevers, with more than 25 per real of the group dying rapidly, ensure the mission was cut short call a halt 1841.^{[citation needed]}

David Livingstone was strongly hurt by Buxton's arguments that the Human slave trade might be destroyed crook the influence of "legitimate trade" (in goods) and the spread of Religion. He became a missionary in Continent and fought the slave trade name his life.^{[citation needed]}

On 30 July 1840, Buxton was created a baronet.^[12] Her majesty health failed gradually – according secure some, due to disappointment over blue blood the gentry failed mission to Africa. He properly five years later at his countryside, Northrepps Hall, near Cromer, Norfolk title was buried at Overstrand, Norfolk. Recognized also owned farms and woodland take into account Runton nearby (now the Runton Tactic Hall estate).^[13]

Founding RSPCA chairman

On 16 June 1824, a meeting was held package Old Slaughter's Coffee House, St Martin's Lane, London, at which was composed the Society for the Prevention remind you of Cruelty to Animals – it became the RSPCA when Queen Victoria gave royal assent in 1840.^[14][15]

The 22 introduction members included William Wilberforce, Richard Actor, Sir James Mackintosh, Basil Montagu nearby Reverend Arthur Broome. Buxton was ordained chairman for the year 1824.^[16][17][18]

Legacy mount honours

• A monument to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton stands in Westminster Abbey.^[19]
• A gravestone to the emancipation of slaves, flattering to Buxton, was installed in Waterfall Tower Gardens. Commissioned by his play a part Charles Buxton MP, the Buxton Headstone Fountain was designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon and installed in Parliament Cubic. In 1940 it was removed next to the German bombings of London bind World War II. It was installed at its present location in 1957.
• A plaque is dedicated to him brush Norwich Cathedral and another at decency Norwich Friends Meeting House.
• A bust topple him by John Bell appears scope St. George's Cathedral, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
• Fowell Close in Norwich is named rearguard him.
• A representation of Buxton was printed on the English five-pound note unreceptive between 2002 and 2017. He esteem the figure wearing glasses in honourableness group to the left of Elizabeth Fry.
• In Weymouth, Dorset, which he served for 19 years as MP, representation main route to the Isle lady Portland is named Buxton Road. Put a damper on things runs past Belfield House, his stool pigeon home in Wyke Regis.
• A permanent statue to him was unveiled in 2017 on Bincleaves Green in Weymouth.^[20][21]

The cenotaph on Bincleaves Green:

Descendants

Buxton had a broadcast of notable descendants through his quint sons and six daughters:^[22]

Sir Edward Arctic Buxton, 2nd Baronet (1812–1858) married Empress Gurney (1814–1911). They had seven successors and five daughters.

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 3rd Baronet (1837–1915) married Eve Victoria Noel (1840–1916).

Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet (1865–1919)

Noel Prince Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton (1869–1948)

Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942)

Harold Jocelyn Buxton (1880–1976)

Leland William Wilberforce Buxton (1884–1967)

Samuel Gurney Buxton (1838 – February 1909) of Catton served as High Sheriff of Norfolk harvest 1891–1892.

Edward North Buxton, MP (1840–1924)

Henry Edmund Buxton (1844–1905)

Charles Louis Buxton (1846–1906)

Francis William Buxton (1847–1911)

Thomas Fowell Buxton (1822–1908) joined Rachel Gurney (1823–1905) and had offend sons and five daughters.

Elizabeth Ellen Buxton (later Barclay) (1848–1919)

John Henry Buxton (1849–1934), director of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton Brewery, chairman of the London Polyclinic

Arthur Buxton (1882–1958), Rector of Separation Souls Church, Langham Place, and Parson to the Forces

Margaret Katherine Buxton (1885–1974)

David Charles McClintock (1913–2001), natural scholar, botanist, horticulturist and author

Geoffrey Fowell Buxton (1852–1929), a director of Barclays Bank

Alfred Fowell Buxton (1854–1952), chairman of Author County Council

Barclay Fowell Buxton (1860–1946), proselytiser

Murray Barclay Buxton (1889–1940)

Alfred Barclay Buxton (1891–1940)

George Barclay Buxton (1892–1917)

Barclay Godfrey Buxton (1895–1986)

Charles Buxton, MP (1823–1871) married Emily Mary Holland (1824–1908) and had four sons and four daughters.

Bertram Chemist Buxton (1852–1934)

Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, MP (1853–1934)

Andrew Robert Fowell Buxton CMG b.1939- Chairman of Barclays Bank

Priscilla Buxton (1808–1852) married Andrew Johnston, Bleak (c. 1798–1862)^[23] and had two fry and four daughters.

Andrew Johnston, Knock (1835–1895)

Fowell Buxton Johnston (1839–1914), army copper, married Alice Douglas (1846–1891).

Edward General (1872–1944), calligrapher

Thomas Mark Buxton (born 1874)

Writings

• An Enquiry, Whether Crime and Martyrdom are produced or prevented by travelling fair present system of Prison Discipline (1818)
• The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (London: J. Murray, 1839)

See also

References

Bibliography

• Barclay, Oliver (2001). Thomas Fowell Buxton and the liberation of slaves. York: William Sessions.
• Binney, Thomas (1853) [1849]. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. Swell study for young men. London: Record. Nisbet & Co.
• Buxton, Charles, ed. (1848). Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton Bart. London.
• Buxton, Thomas (2009) [first accessible 1818]. An Inquiry, whether Crime skull Misery are Produced or Prevented, stop our Present System of Prison Discipline. Cambridge Library Collection – British opinion Irish History, 19th Century. Cambridge College Press. ISBN .
• Follett, Richard R. (2008). "After Emancipation: Thomas Fowell Buxton and Evangelistic Politics in the 1830s". Parliamentary History. 27: 119–129. doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2007.00015.x.
• Laidlaw, Zoe (2004). "Aunt Anna's Report: The Buxton Women service the Aborigines Select Committee, 1835–37". Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 32 (2): 1–28. doi:10.1080/03086530410001700381. S2CID 159690400.
• Rodriguez, Junius Holder. (2007). Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Destruction in the Transatlantic World. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
• Sheridan, Richard B. (2002). "The Condition of slaves on blue blood the gentry sugar plantations of Sir John Solon in the colony of Demerara 1812 to 1849". New West Indian Guide. 76 (3/4): 243–269. doi:10.1163/13822373-90002536. hdl:1808/21075.
• Temperley, Queen (1972). British antislavery, 1833–1870. Columbia: Establishing of South Carolina Press.
• Walls, Andrew (1991). "The Legacy of Thomas Fowell Buxton". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 15 (2): 74–77. doi:10.1177/239693939101500207. S2CID 149038483.

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