BUCK, Zachariah. b. Norwich 10 Sep. 1798; teacher of the pianoforte; assistant organist of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich 1818–21; organist of Norwich cathedral and master of the choristers 1819–77; Mus. Doc. by Abp. of Canterbury 1853; composed many services, anthems and chants. d. Newport, Essex 5 Aug. 1879.
BUCKINGHAM, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2 Duke of (only child of 1 Duke of Buckingham 1776–1839). b. Pall Mall, London 11 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton; M.P. for Bucks. 22 June 1818 to 17 Jany. 1839 when he succeeded; introduced into reform act 1832 the tenant at will clause; G.C.H. 1835; lord privy seal 3 Sep. 1841 to 2 Feb. 1842; P.C. 3 Sep. 1841; K.G. 1842; D.C.L. Cam. 1842; received Queen Victoria at Stowe 15 Jany. 1845; Stowe was taken possession of by bailiffs 31 Aug. 1847; sold part of his estates 10 May 1848 for £263,000; author of Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George iii 3 vols. 1853–5; Memoirs of the court of England during the Regency 1811–20 2 vols. 1856; Memoirs of the court of George iv 2 vols. 1859; Memoirs of the courts and cabinets of William iv and Victoria 2 vols. 1861. d. Great Western railway hotel, Paddington 29 July 1861. G. Lipscomb’s History of Bucks, iii, 87–108 (1847); G. H. Francis’s Orators of the age (1847) 217–23; I.L.N. i, 496 (1842), portrait.
BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (youngest child of Christopher Buckingham of Barnstaple who d. 1794). b. Flushing near Falmouth 25 Aug. 1786; commander of merchant ships 1807–13; established Calcutta Journal at Calcutta which appeared 2 Oct. 1818 to 26 April 1823 when it was suppressed and he was expelled from India; started Jany. 1824 Oriental herald and colonial review which ceased Dec. 1829; edited The Sphynx a weekly journal 1827–9; started The Athenæum 2 Jany. 1828; M.P. for Sheffield 15 Dec. 1832 to 17 July 1837; travelled in America 1837–41; resident director of British and foreign institute Hanover sq. London 1843–6; pres. of London temperance league 1851; granted civil list pension of £200 per annum 1 Sep. 1851; travelled through the country delivering lectures many years; author of Travels in Palestine 1822; America historical descriptive and statistic 3 vols. 1841; The eastern and western states of America 3 vols. 1842 and 16 other books, also about 40 pamphlets on social and political subjects. d. Stanhope lodge, Upper Avenue road, St. John’s Wood, London 30 June 1855. Autobiography of J. S. Buckingham 2 vols. 1855, portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 44–8 (1874), iii, 1098–9 (1882).
BUCKINGHAM, Leicester Silk (youngest son of the preceding). b. 11 Cornwall terrace, Regent’s park, London 29 June 1825; wrote and delivered explanatory description of views of various countries at the Panopticon Leicester sq. 1854; manager of Strand theatre short time; dramatic and musical critic of the Morning Star 1857–67; author of Memoir of Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland 1844 and other books and of about 35 burlesques, comedies and farces. d. Margate 15 July 1867. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 48–9 iii, 1099.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Rev. Augustus Edward Hobart-Hampden, 6 Earl of. b. Ripon 1 Nov. 1793; ed. at Westminster and Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; R. of Bennington, co. Lincoln 14 Dec. 1817; R. of Walton-on-the-Wolds Leics. 5 July 1820 to 1847; preb. of Wolverhampton 1844 to death; succeeded 1 Feb. 1849; assumed additional name of Hampden by r.l. 5 Aug. 1878. d. Hampden house, Great Missenden, Bucks. 13 Oct. 1885.
BUCKLAND, Francis Trevelyan (eld. son of Very Rev. Wm. Buckland 1784–1856). b. Christ Church, Oxford 17 Dec. 1826; ed. at Winchester 1839–44 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1848; studied at St. George’s hospital London 1848–51, house surgeon May 1852 to June 1853; assistant surgeon 2 life guards 14 Aug. 1854 to 1863; discovered coffin of John Hunter in vaults of St. Martin’s church, Charing Cross 22 Feb. 1859, the remains were buried in Westminster Abbey 28 March 1859; wrote largely in the Field newspaper 1856–65; started Land and Water 27 Jany. 1866; inspector of salmon fisheries for England and Wales 6 Feb. 1867 to death; the highest authority on subject of pisciculture; scientific referee to South Kensington Museum May 1865, where he established a large collection of fish-hatching apparatus and the like which expanded into International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883; author of Curiosities of natural history, 4 vols. 1857–72; Logbook of a fisherman and zoologist 1875; Natural history of British fishes 1881; edited White’s Natural history of Selbourne with original notes 1875. d. 37 Albany st. Regent’s park, London 19 Dec. 1880. Life of Frank Buckland by G. C. Bompas 1885, portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. xliii, 303–9 (1881); Graphic xxiii, 45 (1881), portrait.
BUCKLAND, Very Rev. William (eld. son of Rev. Charles Buckland, R. of Templeton, Devon who d. 1829). b. Axminster 12 March 1784; ed. at Tiverton, Winchester and C. C. coll. Ox., Devon scholar 1801, B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808, B.D. 1816, D.D. 1825, fellow of his college 1809–25; reader in mineralogy Univ. of Ox. 1813, and reader in geology 1819; F.G.S. 1813, pres. 1824–5 and 1840–1, Wollaston medallist 1848; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1818, Copley medallist 1822, F.L.S. 1821; R. of Stoke Charity, Hants. 1825–46; canon of Ch. Ch. cathedral Ox. 1825–46; pres. of British Assoc. at Ox. 1832; dean of Westminster 27 Nov. 1846 to death; R. of Islip, Oxon. 1846 to death; a trustee of British Museum 1847; author of Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology 2 vols. 1836, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1869–70; Reliquiæ Diluvianæ 1823, 2 ed. 1824. d. Clapham, London 14 Aug. 1856. Geology and mineralogy by the late Very Rev. W. Buckland, edited by F. T. Buckland, 2 vols. 1858; Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xiii, 27–45 (1857); Proc. of Royal Soc. viii, 264–8 (1856); I.L.N. vii, 336 (1845), portrait.
BUCKLE, Henry Bruges. Assistant surgeon Bengal medical department 18 March 1844; surgeon 16 Sep. 1857; principal medical storekeeper 1866–70; deputy surgeon general 4 Oct. 1870; C.B. 29 May 1865. d. Clarges st. Piccadilly 12 Dec. 1874.
BUCKLE, Henry Thomas (only son of Thomas Henry Buckle of London, shipowner 1779–1840). b. Lee, Kent 24 Nov. 1821; travelled in Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy and France 1840–1; lectured at Royal Instit. London on the “Influence of women on the progress of knowledge” 19 March 1858, published in Fraser’s Mag. April 1858; author of History of civilisation in England 2 vols. 1857–61, republished as History of civilisation in England, France, Spain and Scotland 3 vols. 1869; won the chess tournament at Strand divan London 1849; one of the best chess, whist, and backgammon players in Europe; knew 19 different languages, 7 of them well; left Southampton for Alexandria 20 Oct. 1861. d. from typhoid fever at Damascus 29 May 1862. The life and writings of H. T. Buckle by A. H. Huth 2 vols. 1880, 2 portraits; Miscellaneous and posthumous works of H. T. Buckle vol. 1 (1872); Chess player’s magazine ii, 33–45 (1864), portrait.
BUCKLE, Matthew (only son of Matthew Buckle, admiral R.N. who d. 7 July 1784 aged 68). b. Nork house, Banstead 3 May 1770; entered navy 4 Feb. 1777; captain 29 April 1802; superintendent of Portsmouth district of Sea fencibles 2 May 1804 to Feb. 1810 when corps was discharged; captain of the Adamant 44 guns, 16 Aug. 1810 to 14 Sep. 1813; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1852. d. Bath 8 April 1855.