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1843–1911
Best known as a Victorian clergyman-writer, he published a striking mix of sermons, children’s religious books, art writing, and fiction. His work ranges from practical church teaching to books on English and European painting.
Born in 1843 in Charlton, Kent, H. J. Wilmot-Buxton studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, taking his B.A. in 1866 and M.A. in 1869. He was ordained and served first as rector of Ifield, Kent, from 1872 to 1878, then as vicar of St. Giles-in-the-Wood, Devon, from 1878 to 1907.
He was a notably prolific writer. Early in his career he published Poems and the Oxford novel The Mysteries of Isis (1866), and he later produced a long run of plain sermons, mission books, and religious works for children, including The Children's Bread, The School of Christ, and The Tree of Life. He also wrote on art, with books such as English Painters and German, Flemish and Dutch Painting.
Wilmot-Buxton died in 1911 at Hove, Sussex. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources checked, so a profile image is not included here.