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Encyclopedia > Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton

Sydney Charles Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton was the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1914 to 1920. He was created Viscount Buxton, of Newtimber in the County of Sussex, in 1914, and Earl Buxton in 1920.

Preceded by:
Viscount Gladstone		 Governors-General of the Union of South Africa Succeeded by:
Prince Arthur of Connaught

Many South African schools have a Buxton House named after him.


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The armorial bookplate of James Grove White of Kilbyrne, Doneraile, County Cork, 'Capt. 1st Midd'x Regt / Staff College / Camberley / 11 May 1889' is on the front pastedown (and an earlier inscription by him is on the title page).
With the ownership signature of the historian G.L. Buxton.
This is not one of the publisher's deluxe edition of 200 numbered and signed copies in quarter leather, but one of an unknown quantity bound at about the same time by the State Library of South Australia.
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