Fowell Buxton

For the ship, see Sir Fowell Buxton (ship). For his 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 (1786–1845)

Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton (1 April 1786[1] – 19 February 1845), was an English Member of Parliament, brewer, abolitionist and social reformer.[2][3] He married Hannah Gurney, whose sister became Elizabeth Fry, and became a great friend of her father Joseph Gurney and the extended Gurney family.

  1. ^ Olwyn Mary Blouet, "Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell, first baronet (1786–1845)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online ed., May 2010 accessed 25 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. ^ Gallagher, J. (1950). "Fowell Buxton and the New African Policy, 1838-1842". Cambridge Historical Journal. 10 (1): 36–58. ISSN 1474-6913.