Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet (9 May 1860 – 15 March 1930), was a Scottish politician.

For other people named Thomas Paxton, see Thomas Paxton (disambiguation).

Paxton was Lord Provost of Glasgow and Lord-Lieutenant of Glasgow between 1920 and 1923. He was created a baronet, of Letham in the Parish of Monimail in the County of Fife, in 1923.[1] He declined to contest Glasgow Central in the 1923 general election.[2]

Paxton died in March 1930, aged 69, when the baronetcy became extinct.

References
  1. "No. 32815". The London Gazette. 17 April 1923. p. 2810.
  2. The Glasgow Herald, 12 November 1923.
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