| Activity | Patrick Buxton parlayed a very active early professional life into a reputation as one of his time's leading medical entomologists and parasitologists. Working in both tropical and desert environments, he became a leading expert on the connections between insect life and human diseases and medical treatment. To those outside the field his most remembered work is probably the more popularly-oriented Animal Life in Deserts, but as a medical entomologist he was most known for his studies on insect-oriented aspects of microclimatology, insecticides, fleas, lice, mosquitoes, and, most prominently, the tsetse fly.
Commissioned by Royal Army Medical Corps 1917 and posted to middle east (modern day iraq). Returns to England 1920 - 21 to work at Cambridge University before taking up a post as entomologist at a medical department in Palestine. From 1923-4 he undertook research on behalf of the london school of tropical medicine and in 1926 he was appointed head of entomology there. In 1933 he undertook an expedition in Nigeria before returning to England to take up a post as professor at the University of London. From 1942-3 he was president of the Royal Entomological Society and in 1943 he was elected to the Royal Society of London. From 1945 - 6 he undertook field investigations in Africa and in 1953 he was awarded the gold medal by the Linnean Society. He was again president of the Royal Entomological Society from 1953 until his death in 1955 |