19 OCTOBER 1934, Page 6

* * No one who knew Earl Buxton—it still seems

more natural to speak of him as Sydney Buxton; though he was given his peerage twenty years ago—could feel any- thing but deep respect and regard' for him. He was 'a quiet, efficient and self-sacrificing public servant, whether as Postmaster-General, President of the Board of Trade or Governor-General of South Africa. And being a Buxton he was inevitably a 'warn' humanitarian, whether the cause he espoused was (as befitted the grandson of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton) that of the slaves or of wild birds. The amputation of his left leg at the age of 77 was no light matter, but he bore the loss with a gallantry amounting almost to insouciance, walking with a stick, and very little of a limp.