1137 Edward Buxton

Constituency : Walthamstow  1885 - 86 

Edward  won  the  new  seat  of  Walthamstow.

Edward  was  the  son  of  a  baronet  of  the  same  name  who  had  been  a  Whig  Mp  up to  1858.
He  was  educated  at  Cambridge. He  was  a  partner  in  a  London  brewing  firm. He  was  a  keen  mountaineer  with  some  significant  first  ascents. He  stood  for South  Essex  in  1880. He  was  chairman  of  the  London  School  Board  between  1875  and  1881.

Edward  was  defeated  in  1886

Edward  campaigned  for  more  open  land  near  cities.  He  saved  a  number  of  woodlands  for  public  use. He  was  a  founder  of  the  Society  for  Protection  of  Royal  Fauna  of  Empire. In  the  early  1900s  he  made  two  trips  to  South  Africa  and  wrote  a  book  on  big  game  preservation.

He  died  in  124  aged  83  having  bequeathed  Hatfield  Frest  to  the  National  Trust  on  his  deathbed.