Thomas folwell buxton biography of donald
Source of title - Supplied The Aborigines Protection Society was founded in by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (President) and Saxe Banister (Secretary)....
This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to transatlantic aboli- tionism, British and American literary traditions including captivity narratives.
BUXTON, Thomas Fowell (), of Hampstead, Mdx.
Family and Education
b. 7 Apr. , 1st s. of Thomas Fowell Buxton of Earls Colne, Essex by Anna, da. of Osgood Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex.
educ. Kingston-upon-Thames; Dr Charles Burney’s sch. at Greenwich; Trinity, Dublin ; L. Inn m. 13 May Hannah, da. of John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norf., 3s. 2da. suc. fa.
A letter to Lord John Russell in which the author opposes the plans of Thomas Folwell Buxton to suppress the slave trade.; cr. Bt. 30 July
Offices Held
Biography
Buxton was the son of an Essex country gentleman and a Quaker mother, whose relations the Gurneys of Earlham (his mother’s sister had married Richard, brother of John Gurney) had great influence upon his upbringing and education.
It was at Earlham that he imbibed the ambition for knowledge which made him dissatisfied with desultory reading and field sports and which sent him to Trinity College Dublin, where he distinguished himself. In he was asked to stand for the University, but declined.
He shortly afterwards married one of his Gurney cousins and in became a partner in t