found: Wikipedia, viewed January 27, 2022(Robert Vere Buxton; known as Robin Buxton; English cricketer, soldier and banker; born April 29, 1883 in Belgravia, London; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford; first-class cricketer who, in 1906 and 1907, played a few times for Middlesex; he served in the Sudan Civil Service, 1907-1911; he then joined Martins Bank, becoming a director in 1913; in November 1911 he was commissioned in the West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry in the Territorial Force; during the First World War, he served as a captain in the West Kent Yeomanry before he was seconded to the Imperial Camel Corps in 1916; serving in the Middle East, he became a colleague of T.E. Lawrence; he was awarded the DSO in 1919; he was also awarded the 3rd class of the Order of the Nile of Egypt and made an officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in October 1919; after the war, he returned to Martins Bank and his association with T.E. Lawrence continued as his banker and effectively the financier of the Subscribers' Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom; from 1945, he was deputy chairman of Martins Bank and chairman of its London board; he died in Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, on October 1, 1953)
