Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa

[1] His paternal grandparents were Sir Fowell Buxton, 3rd Baronet, Governor of South Australia, and Lady Victoria Noel, daughter of the 1st Earl of Gainsborough.

He served in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War and was decorated with the Military Cross in 1943.

[5] As well as the WWF, he was involved with the Natural History Museum, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the London Zoological Society.

[7] In 1964, he was Extra Equerry to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and in 1972 High Sheriff of Essex.

[citation needed] On 11 May 1978, he was created a life peer as Baron Buxton of Alsa, of Stiffkey in the County of Norfolk.