Editing Nigel Buxton

{{Short description|British travel writer and wine critic}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Nigel Edward Buxton
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1924|05|29|df=yes}} 
| birth_place   = [[Cowfold]], [[Sussex]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|2015|11|30|1924|05|29|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Norfolk]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] 
| alma_mater         = {{plainlist}}
* [[University of Glasgow]]
*  [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College, University of Oxford]]
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| occupation         = {{startflatlist}}
* [[travel writer]]
* [[wine critic]]
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| known_for          = ''[[The Adam and Joe Show]]''
| spouse             =  {{marriage |Valerie Buxton, née Birrell|1966}}
| children           = 3, including [[Adam Buxton]]
}}

'''Nigel Edward Buxton''' (29 May 1924 – 30 November 2015) was a British [[travel writer]] and [[wine critic]], also known for appearing as '''{{Proper name|BaaadDad}}''' in the [[Channel 4]] comedy series ''[[The Adam and Joe Show]]''.

==Early life==

Buxton was born at [[Cowfold]], [[Sussex]], where his father, Gordon Offord Buxton, worked as a 'general [[Handyman|factotum]]' at Brook Hill House, owned by Lt-Col Edward William ('Robert') Hermon of the 1st King Edward's Horse,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/525942/|title = I've remembered Lieutenant colonel Edward william Hermon}}</ref> to whom the elder Buxton had been a servant since 1908, accompanying him as his [[Batman (military)|batman]] during [[World War I]].<ref>For Love and Courage: The Letters of Lieutenant Colonel E.W. Hermon from the Western Front 1914-1917, E. W. Hermon, Random House Books, 2009</ref>

==Career==

===Travel writer===

After education at [[The College of Richard Collyer|Collyer's Grammar School]], [[Horsham]] and the [[Imperial Service College]], Windsor, followed by the [[University of Glasgow]] and [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College, University of Oxford]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12058225/Nigel-Buxton-journalist-obituary.html Nigel Buxton, journalist - obituary], telegraph.co.uk</ref><ref>Browne Astor: Her Life and Times, Peter Stanford, 2000, Harper Collins, pg 70</ref> at the latter of which he read Modern History, graduating in 1954, Buxton became travel columnist – later travel editor – of ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' in 1961.<ref>Saturday Review, vol. 50, Saturday Review Associates, 1967, pg 64</ref>

===BaaadDad===

In the 1990s, Buxton appeared as "BaaadDad" on ''[[The Adam and Joe Show]]'' on [[Channel 4]], which was written and presented by his son [[Adam Buxton]] along with Adam's friend [[Joe Cornish]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jan/24/tvandradio.television1 TV and Radio: The Adam and Joe show], The Guardian</ref> The comedy behind the character of BaaadDad was the juxtaposition of the fact that he was clearly an [[elderly]] and [[upper middle class]] man with the topics that he discusses, which relate to [[youth culture]] – [[nightclub|clubbing]], [[recreational drug use|drug use]], and so on. As this character, he featured in the video for [[Frank Black]]'s single "Dog Gone".

==Personal life and death==

During the [[Second World War]], having been commissioned in the [[Royal Artillery]] in 1943, Buxton served in France and Germany. Prior to his journalistic career, Buxton also served as assistant adjutant in India during the last days of the [[British Raj]].<ref>{{cite book |isbn=978-0956276711}}</ref> In 1966, Buxton married Valerie Buxton, née Birrell, and had a daughter and two sons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nigel Buxton : Personal details |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125530/ |website=IMdb |access-date=6 May 2025}}</ref>

Buxton wrote several books, including ''A Penguin Guide to Travel in Europe'', published by Penguin in 1965, ''Travel '67'', published by Follett in 1967,<ref>World's Press News and Advertisers' Review, vol. 77, 1967, pg 5</ref> and ''Walking in Wine Country'', published by [[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] in 1993.

Buxton died from complications arising from lung cancer at his son [[Adam Buxton]]'s Norfolk home on 30 November 2015.

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