Second Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. He received the award from British King Edward VII on December 17, 1901 at St. James Palace in London, England for his actions as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry, British Army, on October 20, 1900 near Zeerust, South Africa during the Second Boer War. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, England, he received his education at the Norwich Grammar School in Norwich, England and later at Philberd's in Maidenhead. When the Second Boer War broke out, he was working in the Stock Exchange and was commissioned in the 3rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (British voluntary cavalry unit) as a lieutenant and was sent to South Africa and served as reconnaissance office and aide-de-camp. Following the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, he joined the King's Rifle Corps of the British Army and served in the Western Front, achieving the rank of major. He died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England at the age of 75. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "On the 20th October, 1900, near Zeerust, Lieutenant Doxat proceeded with a party of Mounted Infantry to reconnoitre a position held by 100 Boers on a ridge of kopjes. When within 300 yards of the position the enemy opened a heavy fire on Lieutenant Doxat's party, which then retired, leaving one of their number who had lost his horse. Lieutenant Doxat seeing the dangerous position in which the man was placed galloped back under a very heavy fire and brought him on his horse to a place of safety." In addition to the Victoria Cross, he also received the Queen's South Africa Medal (with four campaign clasps), the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal (1914-20), the Victory Medal (1914-19), and the King George VI Coronation Medal (1937). His Victoria Cross and other medals are on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery of the British Imperial War Museum in London, England.