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Name: BUXTON, Ivor (Major)
Nee: son of Geoffrey Fowell Buxton, bro of Geoffrey Charles Buxton, Rose Cartwright and Joan Ramsden
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1884 Thorpe, Norfolk
Death Date: 23 Apr 1969 Hadleigh, Suffolk
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer
Area: Kipipiri, Gilgil
Married: In Westminster 10 July 1918 Phyllis Dorothy Barclay b. 1888, d. 27 Oct 1976 Ipswich (dau of Hugh Gurney Barclay and prev. m. to Henry Cecil Johnson 1877-1915)
Children: Nancy (3 Apr 1919 Kensington-2005); Felicity Mary (22 Aug 1921)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut, Eton, SS, DSO, Eton Obs
War Service: King's Own Norfolk Yeomanry, DSO, TD
School: Eton, Trinity Coll. Cambridge
General Information:
Eton (1900) - Ivor Buxton, son of G.F. Buxton of Dunston Hall, Norwich; Sept 1897.
Eton (1909) - Major Ivor Buxton DSO, 1897-1903; Trinity College Cambridge; 4th Cl. Class Trip. pt II 1905; Maj. Norfolk Yeo. 1916; served as Bgde-Maj Staff in France, Egypt and Palestine in WW1 (despatches 3 times, DSO)
Soldier Settlement Scheme after WW1 - Class B - Major I. Buxton, DSO, Dunston Hall, Norwich - Farm 839
DSO - Buxton, Ivor (DSO, LG 3/6/19) b. 28/8/1884; s. of G.F. Buxton, CB; Director of Barclay & Co. Ltd, Bankers; m. Phyllis Dorothy Johnson, d. of H.G. Barclay, MVO, VD, JP, late Vice-Chairman, Barclay & Co. Ltd.; one d.; educ. Cheam, Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge; Major Norfolk Yeo.
Brother of Geoffrey Charles Buxton