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

Lord Provost of Glasgow The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Glasgow is the convener of the Glasgow City Council. Elected by the city councillors, the Lord Provost serves not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. The office is equiv ...

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. He declined to contest Glasgow Central in the 1923 general election.''The Glasgow Herald'', 12 November 1923.
/ref> Paxton died in March 1930, aged 69, when the baronetcy became extinct.

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William Orpen Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in ...

. {{DEFAULTSORT:Paxton, Thomas 1860 births 1930 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Lord Provosts of Glasgow