Edgar Claxton was born in Marylebone on 7 July 1910, and died in Oxford on 13 August 2000.Births Dec 1910 Claxton Edgar Marylebone 1a 413. The certificate says: born 7 July 1910 at 93 Hallam Street, Marylebone, father Edgar Claxton, mother Nellie Mildred Claxton nee Petty, father was settlement officer for Marylebone. Signed by Edgar Claxton senior (registrar).Deaths Sep 2000 Claxton Edgar 7 Ju 1910 age 90 Oxford 7021A 270. Certificate says: 31 August 2000 at Oxford, Edgar Claxton born 7 July 1910 St Marylebone railway electrification engineer retired. He first appeared in the newspapers at the age of two years, having attended a family wedding. He attended Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, and in 1939 he gained First Class Honours in engineering at University College London. On 11 July 1928, soon after Claxton's 18th birthday, a motor car driven by Edgar Claxton of Roy Road, Northwood, who had "driven for a year, and previously driven a motor cycle", was involved in a collision with a motor cycle in Northwood. The pillion rider of the motorcycle, 19-year-old Beatrice Davis, died. At the inquest of 20 July 1928 it was found that the car had stopped before the impact, the motor cyclist had been driving too fast, and that Edgar Claxton was "exonerated from all blame." The verdict was "accidental death."
