Geoffrey Fowell
Buxton
Male
England
1852-06-21
London, England
1929-04-11
Hoveton Hall, Norfolk, England
From The London Times, 12 April 1929
Obituary – Mr Geoffrey F. Buxton – Banker and Country Gentleman
Mr Geoffrey Fowell Buxton, who died yesterday at Hoveton Hall, near Norwich at the age of 76, came of the family so long and intimately associated with banking, for he was the grandson of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the first baronet, and second son of the latter’s son Thomas, of Easneye, Ware. His mother was Rachel, daughter of Samuel Gurney, of Ham House, Essex.
He was born on June 21, 1852, and in 1874, on leaving Trinity College. Cambridge, where he had gone from Uppingham, he joined, as a junior, the staff of the private banking house of Gurney’s, Birkbeck, Barclay and Buxton, of which his father was a partner, and was admitted a partner in 1887. Nine years later, when Barclay and Co., Limited, was created by the amalgamation of Gurney’s and other banks, Mr Buxton was appointed a director and served in that capacity till his death, his activities having been especially directed to the affairs of the Norwich branch of Barclays – originally Gurney’s Bank – with its ramifications through the Eastern Counties.
Mr Buxton was a keen supporter of the Volunteer Movement, in which he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and for some years was second in command of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment. Later on he was actively associated with the county Territorial Association. A man of catholic tastes, wide culture, and quiet charm, Mr Buxton never spared himself in the interests of county or municipal work, and for some years he was a Liberal member of the Norwich Town Council, officiating as Mayor of the city in 1903. He was a governor of the Norfolk and-Norwich Hospital and of the Lowestoft Convalescent Home, as well as, for many years, president of the Norwich branch of the Y.M.C.A., in which he took a lively interest.
Mr Buxton’s interests also ranged over agriculture, gardening, and sport, and the Dunston Harriers owe their establishment largely to his initiative when he lived at Dunston, where the pack was, kennelled for years. He was Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, and for his services in the War was made C.B.
Mr. Buxton married Mary, eldest daughter of the Reverend the Honourable John Harbord, in 1878, and had two sons and five daughters. His sons are Major Geoffrey C. Buxton, late Coldstream Guards, and Major Ivor Buxton, D.S.O. and his daughters are Lady Joan Ramsden, Mrs Olive Backhouse, the Honourable Mrs Avery Wilson, Mrs Hazel Saint-George Clowes, and Mrs Rose Cartwright.
1877 - 1883
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Round 1
Geoffrey Fowell Buxton 1 *
Edward Neville Cubitt
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Semifinals
Charles Walder Grinstead 1 *
Geoffrey Fowell Buxton
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Round 1
Geoffrey Fowell Buxton 1 *
Dale Womersley
6-3
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Round 2
Charles Walder Grinstead 1 *
Geoffrey Fowell Buxton
6-1
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Round 1
Arthur Thomas Myers 1 *
Geoffrey Fowell Buxton
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Round 1
Charles Gilbert Heathcote 1 *
Geoffrey Fowell Buxton
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6-2
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