P. A. Buxton
British entomologist
Patrick Alfred Buxton (24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955) was a British medical entomologist.
Origins
Patrick Buxton was born on 24 March 1892 in Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London. He is the son of banker and politician, Alfred Fowell Buxton (1854–1952) and his wife Violet Jex-Blake.
Career
Buxton was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first class honours in Natural Sciences, in 1915. He was elected a fellow of the college in 1916. He continued his studies at St George's Hospital, London and qualified in medicine in 1917. 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.
While in the middle east he extensively collected and developed his interest in insects. In 1921, Buxton accepted the post of an entomologist in the Medical Department in Palestine. From 1923 to January 1926, he was on a collecting expedition in Samoa.
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