Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet explained

Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet (9 May 1860 – 15 March 1930), was a Scottish politician.

Paxton was Lord Provost of Glasgow and Lord-Lieutenant of Glasgow between 1920 and 1923. He was created a baronet, ofLetham in the Parish of Monimail in the County of Fife, in 1923. He declined to contest Glasgow Central in the 1923 general election.[1]

Paxton died in March 1930, aged 69, when the baronetcy became extinct.

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  1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19231112&id=mJ1AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TKUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2824,1423537 The Glasgow Herald, 12 November 1923.