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John Buxton (1608–1660) was an English lawyer and politician from Tibenham in Norfolk. In 1656, in the
Second Protectorate Parliament The Second Protectorate Parliament in England sat for two sessions from 17 September 1656 until 4 February 1658, with Thomas Widdrington as the Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons. In its first sess ...
he was the Member of Parliament for
Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...
, one of three replacements of the knights of the shire for the county of Norfolk, replacing those who had been elected in the 1654 parliament (
First Protectorate Parliament The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the H ...
); the other two were
Charles Fleetwood Charles Fleetwood ( 1618 – 4 October 1692) was an English lawyer from Northamptonshire, who served with the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A close associate of Oliver Cromwell, to whom he was related by marriage ...
and Sir Horatio Townshend. He was admitted to
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in 1626, and took over as
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in 1638 after the death of Sir Francis Astley.


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1608 births 1660 deaths English MPs 1656–1658 High sheriffs of Norfolk English lawyers 17th-century English lawyers Members of Gray's Inn People from South Norfolk (district) Members of the Parliament of England for Norfolk {{1656-England-MP-stub