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| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Event | |
| 7 April 1786 | Born (Castle Heddingham, Essex). | ||
| 1803 | Trinity College, Dublin. | ||
| 13 May 1807 | Married Hannah Gurney (sister of prison reformer Eizabeth Fry), mother of his eight children (5 of whom died young). | ||
| 1808 | Joined Truman, Hanbury, & Co, brewers, of Spitalfields. | ||
| 1823 | Founder member of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery (London Anti-Slavery Society). | ||
| May 1824 | Succeeded William Wilberforce as leader of anti-slavery party in parliament. | ||
| 1 ??????? 1837 | M.P. for Weymouth. | ||
| 1839 | Published 'The African Slave Trade and its Remedy'. | ||
| 1 June 1840 | African Civilization Society inaugurated. | ||
| 30 June 1840 | Baronet. | ||
| 1843 | African Civilisation Society dissolved. | ||
| 19 February 1845 | Died. | ||
| Literature: (DNB; Stenton). | |||
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