thirdly, in 1944. He succeeded to the dukedom in August 1936 when a young cousin, The 9th Duke of Grafton, was killed in a motoring race. Denis Bertram Sydney Buxton (29 November 1897 – 9 October 1917), a fraternal twin; killed in action, aged 19, Passchendaele, as a Second Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards. At the time of his death, he was his father's only surviving son and heir to his titles. The location of his grave is unknown and he is commemorated on Panel Nine of the Tyne Cot Cemetery, a memorial bearing the names of some 35,000 men of the British and New Zealand forces who have no known grave, nearly all of whom died between August 1917 and November 1918. Lady Alethea Constance Dorothy Sydney Buxton (2 August 1910 – 25 July 2004); married Venerable Peter Charles Eliot, TD, MBE (30 October 1910 – 1995), son of Edward Granville Eliot (himself grandson of The 3rd Earl of St Germans) and Clare Louise Phelips, on 12 July 1934. They had no issue, and Lady Alethea died aged 93 in 2004. Since all his sons died unmarried in his lifetime, his titles became extinct at his death. Earl Buxton was survived by his second wife Mildred (died 1955) and his youngest daughter Lady Althea Eliot (died 2004), and by eight grandchildren including the future Duke of Grafton (1919–2011). Works Handbook to Political Questions of the Day (1880). Mr. Gladstone's Irish Bills (1886). Finance and Politics: An Historical Study, 1783–1885. Volume I and Volume II (1888). Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1901). Fishing and Shooting (1902). The Arguments on either side of the Fiscal Question (1903). General Botha (1924). References External links Titanic's Supreme Survivor – Sydney Buxton 1853 births 1934 deaths Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Governors-General of South Africa Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom People educated at Clifton College UK MPs 1880–1885 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs who were granted peerages United Kingdom Postmasters General Politics of Peterborough Sydney Members of the London School Board British amputees Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England Presidents of the Board of Trade People