Mary Ann Buxton (c.1795 – 18 October 1888) was a

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and

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. She was born in

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. She founded and managed the perhaps most successful and well known combined school for small children and girl's pension in

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between 1841 and 1878. She was additionally a successful landowner and greatly expanded the lands she inherited from her late spouse in 1847.

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