Education
Claxton was educated at Queens" College, Cambridge He was ordained in 1928 and began his ordained ministry with London curacies before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bristol in 1933.
Claxton was educated at Queens" College, Cambridge He was ordained in 1928 and began his ordained ministry with London curacies before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bristol in 1933.
He was then chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol before becoming the Suffragan Bishop of Warrington and then the diocesan Bishop of Blackburn. During his long retirement he was an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Exeter. He died in Cheshire.