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Name: BUXTON, Thomas Fowell Victor 'Victor' (4th Bart.), Sir
Nee: son of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1837-1915)
Birth Date: 8.4.1865 Prince's Gate, London
Death Date: 31 5.1919 Epping, Essex, as a result of an accident with his new motor car
Nationality: British
First Date: 1907
Profession: Bought land at Limuru in 1907 and in 1903 bought a 4.5 acre plot on Mombasa Island (additional to the school) and a farm up the coast at Vipingo. Farmer - responsible for introducing wattle
Area: Limuru, Mombasa, Vipingo. HBEA 1912 - Kabuku Farm, Limoru
Married: In Feltwell, Norfolk 10.10.1888 Anne Louisa Matilda O'Rorke b. 8 July 1867 Brighton, d. 12 Jan 1956 Westminster
Children: Thomas Fowell (1889-1945); Roden Henry Victor (1890-1990; Clarence Edward Victor (14 Jan 1892 Waltham Abbey-18 Oct 1967 Limuru); Lucy Victoria (1893-1978); Jocelyn Murray Victor (1896-1916); Maurice Victor (1898-1919); Rupert Erroll Victor (1900-1921)
Book Reference: Gillett, HBEA, Debrett, Hut, North, Playne, Mervyn Fox, Drumkey, Land, Pioneers, AJ, Gazette
School: Harrow; Trinity Coll, Cambridge
General Information:
Opened Buxton High School Mombasa in 1904
Playne - The East African Industries Ltd. - ' ..... The chairman, T.F. Victor Buxton Esq. (who has paid two visits to BEA and Uganda) .….
Playne - Kabuku Farm - There are 2 specially interesting facts about this farm. The first is that Mr T.F.V. Buxton, the owner, is one of the directors of the CMS, and started a school for native children on the farm in 1907. There are some Swahili tenants on the property of several years standing. The second is that 14 leopards have been caught during the same number of months. About 80 acres of land out of the 1280 are cultivated with maize, oats, barley, and potatoes, and there are 700 mixed English fruit trees. ............... The homestead is built of wood and iron, and is three-quarters of a mile from Limoru Station. The labour employed is Kikuyu, and there is no trouble with them. Mr A.G.A. Leakey manages for Mr Buxton
Drumkey 1909 - Cattle Brand - E4B - Kabuku Farm, Limoru
Land - 1908 - Agricultural, 18.7 acres, Limuru Swamp, 27-2-08, Registered 23-7-08
Pioneers - Limuru - Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton was one of the earliest English settlers to arrive, in 1902. His land bordered the railway line and consisted of the usual square mile surveyed by Government and sold to intending settlers. He brought Waswahili up from the coast to grow English potatoes in the rich forest land. Sir Victor gave land to be used for a Deacons' school - now the thriving St. Paul's United Theological College. His son, Clarence, developed the land as a dairy and tea estate.
Agricultural Journal - Brands Allotted and Registered, June 1908 - T.F.V. Buxton, Kabuku Farm, Limuru - Kiambu E4B North - Farming at Limuru c. 1902; Managing Director of the Uganda Company in London Nov 1903
Gazette 7/7/1920 - Probate and Administration in respect of the estate of Sir Thomas Fowell Victor Buxton late of Wathes, Waltham Abbey Essex who died at Epping Essex on 31/5/1919. Applied for by Dame A.L.M. Buxton of Nairobi and Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton of Kabuku Limuru.
His son Rupert (1900-1921) drowned near Oxford aged 21 with his friend Michael Llewelyn Davies. His son Jocelyn (1896-1916) died on first day of battle of the Somme 1 July 1916. His son Maurice (1898-1919) died on pneumonia 8 Aug 1919.
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