Charles Buxton
Charles Buxton
| Charles Buxton MP | |||||||||
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| Born | 1823 | ||||||||
| Died | 1871 | ||||||||
| Residence | 7 Grosvenor Crescent, SW | ||||||||
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business political | ||||||||
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1866.02.01 A letter of resignation from Charles Buxton Esq. MP having been read, it was resolved on a division of 7 to 5 that the Secretary be instructed to enquire of Mr Chas. Buxton MP whether the letter purporting to be written by is genuine.
1866.02.06 Mr Charles Buxton’s resignation was accepted and the draft of a letter to be sent to him in reply was approved.
1866.02.20 A letter from Mr Charles Buxton MP having been read, the Secretary was requested to inform him that the Council do not clearly understand from his letter whether he intends entirely to dissociate himself from the Society, and to express a hope that he will allow his name to remain in the list of Fellows.
[letter in A5/59 and 100-101]
A5 167 Charles Buxton, MP, 7 Grosvenor Crescent, SW to Council, 29 Jan. 1866 – resigns from ASL (signature only in sender’s hand)
168 Ibid., 5 Feb. – confirms resignation; ‘among scientific men it is spoken of with general ridicule’ (ibid.)
169 Ibid., 6 Feb. – wishes to withdraw last two letters in view of their tone; expresses his ‘very deep indignation … [at] the evident attacks made by Captain Pim [Capt. Bedford Pim, RN, member of Council] and others on the character of the Negro … cannot discover anything to prevent their race from advancing’, wishes resignation to stand; see ‘The Negro and Jamaica’, Popular magazine of anthropology, Special Number, 1866; and reference to it, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, p. lxxxix. The lecture was given on 1 February at St James’s Hall, Piccadilly (Circular No. 10, A8, Suppl. 2, Item 15)
170 Ibid. to Hugh J.C. Beavan, member of Council 1864, 26 Feb. – after the delivery and publication of Capt. Pim’s lecture does not wish to be associated with the ASL (signature only in sender’s hand)
Notes From Elsewhere
Charles Buxton (18 November 1823 – 10 August 1871) was an English brewer, philanthropist, writer and member of Parliament.
Publications
External Publications
He produced Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet, with Selections from his Correspondence, first published in 1848. He later wrote a history, Slavery and Freedom in the British West Indies, published in 1860.
