Buxton baronets

The first Baronet was the grandson of John Buxton who designed and built Shadwell Lodge at Rushford, Norfolk.

His son, the second Baronet represented Great Bedwyn 1818–32 and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1841.

The Buxton Baronetcy, of Belfield in the County of Dorset,[3] was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 July 1840 for the brewer, Liberal politician, anti-slavery campaigner, philanthropist, and social reformer Thomas Buxton.

[4] His eldest son Edward, the second Baronet, represented Essex South and Norfolk East in Parliament.

The heir presumptive is the present holder's second cousin, Jonathan Buxton (born 1950)