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P. A. Buxton

P. A. Buxton is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand P. A. Buxton rather than just read about it. In short: Patrick Alfred Buxton (24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955) was a British medical entomologist. Origins Patrick Buxton was born on 24 March 1892 in Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London.

Key takeaways

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Reproduce the core statement of P. A. Buxton from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Patrick Alfred Buxton (24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955) was a British medical entomologist.

Origins Patrick Buxton was born on 24 March 1892 in Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London. He is the son of banker and politician, Alfred Fowell Buxton (1854–1952) and his wife Violet Jex-Blake.

Career Buxton was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first class honours in Natural Sciences, in 1915. He was elected a fellow of the college in 1916. He continued his studies at St George's Hospital, London and qualified in medicine in 1917. Since it was during the First World War, he immediately took up a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Mesopotamia and North West Persia.

While in the middle east he extensively collected and developed his interest in insects. In 1921, Buxton accepted the post of an entomologist in the Medical Department in Palestine. From 1923 to January 1926, he was on a collecting expedition in Samoa. On returning to London, he was appointed head of the Department of Entomology in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His work was mainly focused on understanding insects in relation to control. He was involved in the practical control of pests such as lice, mosquitoes, and flies during the Second World War. After the war in 1945–1946, he was involved in East Africa on the problem of the control of Tsetse flies.

Awards and honours Buxton was awarded the Linnean Medal, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1943), and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (1947).

Marriage and family Patrick Buxton married Muryell Gladys Rice (1895–1989) in March 1917, in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. Patrick and Muryell had two sons and four daughters:

Martin Patrick (1920–1966) was a Captain in the Royal Signals and held the office of First Secretary of the Foreign Service. Andrew Patrick (1923–1952) was a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) during World War II. He was a mammalogist at the Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda where he died. Helen Muryell (1925–2014), married Donald Wright 26 June 1948, with five children. Marian Elizabeth (1927–1984) Rachel Katharine (1930–) married Christopher Herzig on 19 July 1952. Lucy Bertha (1932–) He died on 13 December 1955 at his home Grit Howe, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire but his widow survived him by more than 30 years and died on 6 September 1989 in Oxford.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with P. A. Buxton

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what P. A. Buxton claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to P. A. Buxton before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about P. A. Buxton ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of P. A. Buxton

In research: P. A. Buxton appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses P. A. Buxton in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: P. A. Buxton is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1892 births, 1955 deaths, 20th-century British zoologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for P. A. Buxton outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is P. A. Buxton in simple terms?

Patrick Alfred Buxton (24 March 1892 – 13 December 1955) was a British medical entomologist. Origins Patrick Buxton was born on 24 March 1892 in Hyde Park Street, Paddington, London.

Why does P. A. Buxton matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study P. A. Buxton?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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