Harold Buxton

Harold Jocelyn Buxton[1] (20 June 1880 – 13 March 1976) was a British Church of England cleric. He was Bishop of Gibraltar[2] from 1933[3] to 1947.[4]

Buxton was born into a noble family, the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet,[5] on 20 June 1880.[6] He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.[7] In 1904 he embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Cuthbert, Bensham.[8] From 1907 to 1910 he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Rangoon,[9] and from 1911 to 1914 curate of Thaxted.[7] From 1914 to 1918 he was Vicar of Horley, Oxfordshire; during World War I he was also a temporary Chaplain to the Forces in France and attached to the Russian Red Cross at Erzurum in the Ottoman Empire.[7][10] From 1926 to 1927 he was Chaplain of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, and then, before his appointment to the episcopate,[11] Archdeacon of Cyprus from 1928[12] to 1932.[13] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 13 March 1976.[14]