Harold Buxton

Harold Jocelyn Buxton [1] (20 June 1880 13 March 1976) was Bishop of Gibraltar[2] from 1933[3] to 1947.[4]

Buxton was born into a noble family, the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet,[5] on 20 June 1880.[6] He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge .[7] In 1904 he embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Cuthbert, Bensham.[8] From 1907 to 1910 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Rangoon,[9] and from 1911 to 1914 curate of Thaxted.[7] From 1914 to 1918 he was Vicar of Horley, Oxfordshire; during World War I he was also a temporary Chaplain to the Forces in France and attached to the Russian Red Cross at Erzurum in the Ottoman Empire.[7][10] From 1926 to 1927 he was Chaplain of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem and then, before his appointment to the episcopate,[11] Archdeacon of Cyprus from 1928 to 1932.[12] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 13 March 1976.[13]

References

  1. Pitts Theology Library
  2. Bishops of Gibraltar
  3. See Of Gibraltar H. J. Buxton Appointed The Times Friday, Feb 03, 1933; pg. 10; Issue 46359; col C
  4. Ecclesiastical News Resignation of the Bishop Of Gibraltar The Times Saturday, May 03, 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50751; col F
  5. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  6. thePeerage.com
  7. 1 2 3 "Buxton, Harold Jocelyn (BKSN898HJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  8. Photo of church
  9. Historical church photographs
  10. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  11. National Archives
  12. Ecclesiastical News. Archdeacons In Cyprus And Palestine The Times Saturday, Dec 01, 1928; pg. 15; Issue 45065; col C
  13. The Times, Mar 19, 1976; pg. 16; Issue 59657; col F The Rt Rev H. J. Buxton Former Bishop of Gibraltar

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Church of England titles
Preceded by
Nugent Hicks
Bishop of Gibraltar
19331947
Succeeded by
Cecil Horsley
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