Ronald Carlile Buxton (20 August 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a Chartered Structural Engineer, successful businessman, and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Buxton was educated at Eton and, after fighting in India during World War II (reaching the rank of captain in the REME and receiving the MC), went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1945, taking an MA.

Buxton came to national attention for a spectacular showing at the polls, prompting Sir Alex Douglas-Home to declare "The best epitaph on hundred days of socialist government...my friend the member for Leyton".

[1] In July the same year he nearly died when flying his own plane to Kenya, becoming lost in a storm between Sicily and Libya with low fuel.

[1] He married on 20 June 1959, his distant cousin[1] Phyllida, daughter of Captain Roden Henry Victor Buxton, CBE, RN, and Dorothy St John.