James Desmond Buxton
1947–2026British business journalist and foreign correspondent for the Financial Times who covered the Middle East, Africa, Italy and Scotland.
Particulars
James Desmond Buxton was born at Hoveton Hall in Norfolk in 1947, the youngest of six children. After Eagle House prep school and Eton, he studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he wrote for and helped edit Varsity, beginning a lifelong career in journalism. He served his provincial apprenticeship at the Hemel Hempstead Evening Echo before working briefly for the Daily Telegraph.
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