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Traveller / antiquarian · Scholar

H. J. Buxton

Archdeacon H. J. Buxton

fl. 1930–1933 · United Kingdom

British traveller and scholar, active 1930–1933. Wrote with W. H. Buckler and Vivian Seymer.

Life and work

  1. 1932–1933
    Toured Cyprus with W. H. Buckler and Vivian Seymer, visiting historic monuments including the painted churches of the Troodos; the three produced the first scholarly study of Byzantine frescoes on the island.

    CyprusStewart et al. 2014

  2. 16 November 1932
    Invited, with Buckler and Seymer, to the London meeting of the Archaeological Joint Committee that formally proposed a Cyprus Department of Antiquities; named as one of those who had raised the alarm about Cyprus's Byzantine monuments.

    LondonStanley-Price 2025

  3. 1933
    First-named author of 'The Church of Asinou, Cyprus and its Frescoes', Archaeologia 83: 327-50 (citation as printed in Balance of Empires).

    Stewart et al. 2014

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Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Colonial society and the dismissal of John Hilton, first Director of Antiquities in Cyprus”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960, 109-126.
  2. 2.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
  3. 3.H. Buxton (1933). “The Church of Asinou, Cyprus and its Frescoes”. Archaeologia 83, 327-350.
  4. 4. (2012). Patrons and Painters on Cyprus: The Frescoes at the Royal Chapel at Pyrga.