Thomas folwell buxton biography of mahatma
Slavery is formed under Thomas Folwell Buxton and estab- lishes The Anti-Slavery Reporter; William Wilberforce pub- lishes An Appeal to the Religion..
Thomas Fowell Buxton
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, politician, philanthropist and slave trade abolitionist, was born on 1st April 1786, eldest son of Thomas and Anna (Hanbury).
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and in 1807 married Hannah Gurney (d.1872), who came from a Quaker family. He interested himself in prison and legal reforms and was a member of the African Institution and Vice President of the Anti-Slavery Society, as well as a benefactor to the RSPCA.
Sir Thomas was made a baronet and died in Norfolk on 19th February 1845. He is buried at Overstrand church.
Thomas Fowell Buxton.
His son Edward (1812-1858) succeeded to the title and another son Charles (1822-1871) became a politician. Charles erected a memorial fountain for his father in the gardens adjoining the Houses of Parliament.
A seated statue, by sculptor Frederick Thrupp, was erected in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, nearWilliam Wilberforce's monument.
The inscription reads:
To the memory of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxto