Ronald Buxton (British politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ronald Buxton (British politician)

British politician

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1923

Date of Death: 10-Jan-2017

Profession: businessperson, engineer, politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Ronald Buxton (British politician)

  • Ronald Carlile Buxton (20 August 1923 – 10 January 2017) was a Chartered Structural Engineer, a successful businessman and a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Buxton relished the lifestyle of a country gentleman on his Norfolk estate.
  • He came to national attention for a spectacular showing at the polls, prompting Sir Alex Douglas-Home to declare "The best epitaph on hundred days of socialist government...my friend the member for Leyton".
  • The unconcealed joy was not to last; he was a Member of Parliament for a little over a year, after winning an unexpected by-election victory in 1965.Buxton was the Conservative candidate in the safe Labour constituency of Leyton at the 1955 general election, losing by 8,244 votes to the long-serving Labour MP Reginald Sorensen.
  • He was unsuccessful again at the 1959 election and at the October 1964 general election, when Sorensen's majority was 3,919 votes.
  • Buxton had cast around for another seat but was refused the nomination for the constituency where he lived, and failed to secure the Conservative nomination for South-West Norfolk. Shortly after the 1964 election, Sorensen was persuaded to accept a life peerage to make way in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, who had lost his seat in Smethwick.
  • However, the plan failed and on 25 January Buxton won the 1965 Leyton by-election by a narrow margin of only 205 votes, on a reduced turnout.
  • David Dimbleby, later to become the anchor (from 1979) of the BBC Election results programmes, reported the result live from a snowy Leyton town hall for the BBC. Gordon Walker regained the seat for Labour at the 1966 general election, with a comfortable majority.
  • Buxton stood again at the 1970 election, but lost again, by over 5,000 votes.

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