P. A. Buxton

P. A. Buxton
P. A. Buxton
Born	Patrick Alfred Buxton; 24 March 1892; London, England
Died	13 December 1955 (aged 63); Gerrards Cross, England
Awards	FRS (1943); CMG (1947); Linnean Medal (1953);
	Scientific career
Fields	Entomology

Patrick Alfred Buxton CMG FRS FLS^[1] (24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955) was a British medical entomologist.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Origins

Patrick Buxton was born on 24 March 1892 in Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London.^[5] He is the son of banker and politician, Alfred Fowell Buxton (1854–1952) and his wife Violet Jex-Blake.

Career

Buxton was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first class honours in Natural Sciences, in 1915. He was elected a fellow of the college in 1916. He continued his studies at St George's Hospital, London and qualified in medicine in 1917. Since it was during the First World War, he immediately took up a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Mesopotamia and North West Persia.

While in the middle east he extensively collected and developed his interest in insects. In 1921, Buxton accepted the post of an entomologist in the Medical Department in Palestine. From 1923 to January 1926, he was on a collecting expedition in Samoa. On returning to London, he was appointed head of the Department of Entomology in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His work was mainly focused on understanding insects in relation to control. He was involved in the practical control of pests such as lice, mosquitoes, and flies during the Second World War. After the war in 1945–1946, he was involved in East Africa on the problem of the control of Tsetse flies.^[6]

Linnean Medal. The awardee's name is shown on the reverse side

Awards and honours

Buxton was awarded the Linnean Medal, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1943), and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1947).

Marriage and family

Patrick Buxton married Muryell Gladys Rice (1895–1989) in March 1917, in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.^[7]

Patrick and Muryell had two sons and four daughters:

Martin Patrick (1920–1966) was a Captain in the Royal Signals and held the office of First Secretary of the Foreign Service.^[8]
Andrew Patrick (1923–1952) was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) during World War II. He was a mammalogist at the Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda where he died.
Helen Muryell (1925–2014), married Donald Wright 26 June 1948, with five children.^[9]
Marian Elizabeth (1927–1984)
Rachel Katharine (1930–) married Christopher Herzig on 19 July 1952.^[10]
Lucy Bertha (1932–)

He died on 13 December 1955 at his home Grit Howe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire^[11] but his widow survived him by more than 30 years and died on 6 September 1989 in Oxford.^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b Wigglesworth, V. B. (1956). "Patrick Alfred Buxton 1892-1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2: 69–84. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0005. JSTOR 769476. S2CID 40999958.
^ V. B. Wigglesworth (2004). "Buxton, Patrick Alfred (1892–1955), medical entomologist". In Clark, J. F. M (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32223. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Dr. P. A. Buxton (Obituaries) The Times Thursday, 15 Dec 1955; pg. 14; Issue 53404; col B
^ ‘BUXTON, Patrick Alfred’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 May 2013 (subscription required)
^ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. P
^ V.B. Wigglesworth, Patrick Alfred Buxton, 1892–1955: Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. 1956 2, 69–84, published 1 November 1956
^ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics.
^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. p.621.
^ Wright, (Arthur Robert) Donald in Who's Who online, accessed 31 March 2019, (subscription required)
^ "The Times, 1993, UK, English". Internet archive. The Times. 1993. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
^ Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.
^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995

Patrick Alfred

[frs-1] Wigglesworth, V. B. (1956). "Patrick Alfred Buxton 1892-1955". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2: 69–84. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0005. JSTOR 769476. S2CID 40999958.

[odnb-2] V. B. Wigglesworth (2004). "Buxton, Patrick Alfred (1892–1955), medical entomologist". In Clark, J. F. M (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32223. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[3] Dr. P. A. Buxton (Obituaries) The Times Thursday, 15 Dec 1955; pg. 14; Issue 53404; col B

[4] ‘BUXTON, Patrick Alfred’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 28 May 2013 (subscription required)

[5] General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. P

[6] V.B. Wigglesworth, Patrick Alfred Buxton, 1892–1955: Biogr. Mem. Fellows R. Soc. 1956 2, 69–84, published 1 November 1956

[7] General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics.

[8] Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. p.621.

[9] Wright, (Arthur Robert) Donald in Who's Who online, accessed 31 March 2019, (subscription required)

[Times_obit-10] "The Times, 1993, UK, English". Internet archive. The Times. 1993. Retrieved 9 August 2018.

[11] Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London, England © Crown copyright.

[12] England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995

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