Aubrey Leland Oakes Buxton

Major Aubrey Leland Oakes Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa KCVO MC DL (15 July 1918 – 1 September 2009) was a British soldier, politician, television executive and writer.

He was born on 15 July 1918. His father was Leland William Wilberforce Buxton and his mother, Ada Mary Oakes. He was the great-great-grandson of the anti-slavery campaigner Sir Thomas Buxton. He was educated at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War and was decorated with the Military Cross in 1943.

From 1958 to 1988, he was a Director of Anglia Television. He was best known for creating the nature documentary series Survival which ran for four decades.

In 1961 he was one of the co-founders of the World Wildlife Fund. As well as the WWF, he was involved with the Natural History Museum, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the London Zoological Society. In 1976 he and Lady Buxton donated a 10 hectare estate near Elsenham to the Essex Wildlife Trust, and it is named the Aubrey Buxton Nature Reserve.

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