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Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st baronet

1786–1845

Philanthropist and politician. Advocated prison reform and the abolition of slavery. Created baronet, 1840.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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