Patrick Alfred Buxton CMG FRS FLS[1] (24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955) was a British medical entomologist.

[2][3][4] Patrick Buxton was born on 24 March 1892 in Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London.

Buxton was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first class honours in Natural Sciences, in 1915.

Since it was during the First World War, he immediately took up a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Mesopotamia and North West Persia.

Patrick Buxton married Muryell Gladys Rice (1895–1989) in March 1917, in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales.