Buxton, Harold Jocelyn, active 1918-1926, Bishop of Gibraltar

Epithet: Bishop of Gibraltar

Harold Jocelyn Buxton was born in 1880, the fourth of ten children to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton III (1837-1915) and Lady Victoria Noel (d. 1916), the daughter of the first Earl of Gainsborough. He attended Harrow Trinity College in Cambridge, receiving his B.A. in 1903 and his M.A. in 1905. Buxton was made a deacon in the Church of England in 1904 and in 1906 was ordained as a priest. He served as a curate at the Durham Cathedral of St. Cuthbert in Bensham from 1904-1907. From 1907-1910, Buxton served in Rangoon, Burma as the Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Rangoon, then as a Railway Chaplain to the Additional Clergy Society. He returned to England in 1911, serving as Curate of Thaxted, then Vicar of Horley with Hornton in Oxford. With the advent of World War I, Buxton was appointed Head of the Medical Unit of the Lord Mayor's Fund with the Russian Army in the Caucasus and the Temporary Chaplain in France. With the end of the war, Buxton was appointed to Curate of Christ Church, Westminster and served as Secretary of the Armenian Relief Fund. He traveled to Jerusalem in 1926 to become the Chaplain of St. George's Cathedral and to Nicosia, Cyprus in 1927 to become the British Chaplain. In 1928 Buxton was made Archdeacon of Cyprus and Itinerating [sic] Chaplain of Syria in 1931.

He was consecrated as the ninth Lord Bishop of Gibraltar in 1933 and served this diocese until his resignation in 1947, but remained in Gibraltar until 1948 as Acting Bishop until a replacement could be appointed. The Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar includes the Balkans, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, the South of France, Southern Russia, and parts of Turkey. Buxton returned to England and served as Rector of Launton from 1949-1952, a Licentiate to the Officiate of the Diocese of Guildorf from 1952-1962, and joined the Diocese of London in 1963. He received the Sub-Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1935, was made Knight Commander of the Royal Order of St. George by King George I of Greece in 1943, and received the Order of St. Sara, First Class, in 1945. Buxton authored several works involving his travels and experiences, including Travel and Politics in Armenia (1913), Substitution of Law for War (1925), Transcaucasia (1926), and A Mediterranean Window (1954). He died in 1976.