Harold Jocelyn Buxton (20 June 1880 – 13 March 1976) was a British Church of England cleric. He was Bishop of Gibraltar from 1933 to 1947. Buxton was born into a noble family, the son of Thomas Buxton, 3rd Baronet, on 20 June 1880. He was educated at

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and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1904 he embarked on his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Cuthbert, Bensham. From 1907 to 1910 he was

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to the Bishop of Rangoon, and from 1911 to 1914 curate of

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. 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. From 1926 to 1927 he was

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of St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, and then, before his appointment to the episcopate,

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of Cyprus from 1928 to 1932. A Sub-Prelate of the

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, he died on 13 March 1976. The Times, Mar 19, 1976; pg. 16; Issue 59657; col F ''The Rt Rev H. J. Buxton Former Bishop of Gibraltar''

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Harold Jocelyn Buxton scrapbooks, 1926-1957
at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology 1880 births People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Cyprus 20th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar 1976 deaths Sub-Prelates of the Venerable Order of Saint John World War I chaplains Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers Anglican socialists English Christian socialists Younger sons of baronets {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub