Born in Cape Town on 12 February 1911, the son of James Stokes Loxton, a pharmacist, and Marion, née Mitchell, Loxton was sent home to join his brother at Clifton College, where he won the Miriam Badock scholarship in science to Bristol University to study medicine. There he won the committee's gold medal. During the second world war he was in the RAMC, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel and serving in France, Italy, Somaliland, East Africa and Burma. After the war he studied for the FRCS and was much influenced by Rendle Short FRCS (qv *Lives* 1952-64) and Ronald Raven FRCS (qv *Lives* 1990-96), and then specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, obtaining the MRCOG in 1947 and becoming lecturer on the professorial unit at Birmingham. He was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the United Bristol Hospitals. He was on the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1955 to 1962, and returned to serve on their Fellowship Selection and Postgraduate Committees from 1969 to 1977. He married Miss Lievesley in 1956 and there were no children of the marriage. Cricket, cross-country running and sailing were his main extracurricular interests. He died in Bristol on 18 July 1993.