Harold Jocelyn Buxton (20 June 1880 – 13 March 1976) was a British Church of England cleric. He was Bishop of GibraltarBishops of Gibraltar from 1933See Of Gibraltar H. J. Buxton Appointed The Times Friday, Feb 03, 1933; pg. 10; Issue 46359; col C to 1947.Ecclesiastical News Resignation of the Bishop Of Gibraltar The Times Saturday, May 03, 1947; pg. 7; Issue 50751; col F
Buxton was born into a noble family, the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet,“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 on 20 June 1880.thePeerage.com He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1904 he embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Cuthbert, Bensham. From 1907 to 1910 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Rangoon,Historical church photographs and from 1911 to 1914 curate of Thaxted. 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.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 From 1926 to 1927 he was Chaplain of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, and then, before his appointment to the episcopate,National Archives Archdeacon of Cyprus from 1928pennyghael to 1932.Ecclesiastical News. Archdeacons In Cyprus And Palestine The Times Saturday, Dec 01, 1928; pg. 15; Issue 45065; col C A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 13 March 1976.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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Harold Jocelyn Buxton scrapbooks, 1926-1957 at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology