Charles Buxton was an English

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 brewer

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, philanthropist

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, writer and Member of Parliament

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Buxton was born in Cobham, Surrey

Cobham, Surrey

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, the third son of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet, a notable brewer, MP and social reformer, and followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a partner in the brewery

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 of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, & Co

Old Truman Brewery

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 in Brick Lane

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, Spitalfields

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, London

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, and then an MP. He served as Liberal

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 MP for Newport, Isle of Wight

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 (1857–1859), Maidstone

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 (1859–1865) and East Surrey

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 (1865–1871). His son Sydney Buxton was also an MP and governor of South Africa

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On 7 February 1850, he married Emily Mary Holland, the eldest daughter of physician Henry Holland

Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet

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 (physician to Queen Victoria

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 and later president of the Royal Institution

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Following his father's death, Buxton commissioned architect

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 Samuel Sanders Teulon

Samuel Sanders Teulon

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 to design the Buxton Memorial Fountain

Buxton Memorial Fountain

The Buxton Memorial Fountain is a memorial and drinking fountain in London, the United Kingdom, that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834....

 to commemorate his father's role, with others, in the abolition of slavery.