4th Bt
Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton, 4th Baronet, (8 April 1865 – 31 May 1919) – who went by the name Victor Buxton – was the great-grandson of
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a British MP and social reformer; the grandson of
Sir Edward North Buxton, also an MP; and the son of
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, a
Governor of South Australia.[
He graduated
B.A. from
Trinity College, Cambridge in 1887.[2] He married Anne Louisa Matilda O'Rorke on 10 October 1888[1] and they had 7 children:
Thomas Fowell (1889), Roden Henry Victor (1890), Clarence Edward Victor (1892), Lucy Victoria, (1893), Jocelyn Murray Victor (1896), Maurice Victor, (1898), and
Rupert Erroll Victor (1900). Jocelyn and Maurice died in
World War I.[3] Rupert drowned near
Oxford at the age of 21 with his close friend
Michael Llewelyn Davies, the foster son of writer
J. M. Barrie.[4] This happened at
Sandford Lock, a section of the River Thames that was even then infamous as a drowning hazard; there were warning signs and a conspicuous memorial for previous victims. Friends and family judged this to be either a swimming accident, or possibly a suicide pact.
Buxton served as Temporary Major in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Volunteer Regiment. He was a
Justice of the Peace, and in 1905 the
High Sheriff of Essex. He died on 31 May 1919 at age 54, as a result of a freak accident with his own new motor car.