Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury

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Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury PC, QC (15 September 1845-27 October 1935, was a British barrister and judge.

Buckley was the fourth son of Reverend John Wall Buckley and his wife Elizabeth Burton, daughter of Thomas Burton. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and at Christ Church, Cambridge. Buckley was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, in 1869, and became a Queen's Counsel in 1886. He was a member of the Bar Committee and of the Bar Council from 1882 to 1898 and served as a Judge of the High Court of Justice between 1900 and 1906 and as a Lord Justice of Appeal between 1906 and 1915. Buckley was admitted to the Privy Council in 1906 and in 1915 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wrenbury, of Old Castle in the County of East Sussex.

Lord Wrenbury married Bertha Margaretta Jones, daughter of Charles Edward Jones, in 1887. They had four sons and four daughters, He died in October 1935, aged 90, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Bryan Burton Buckley. His younger son Sir Denys Burton Buckley also became a Judge of the High Court of Justice and Lord Justice of Appeal.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Wrenbury	Succeeded by Bryan Burton Buckley

[edit] References

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Legg, L. G. Wickham (editor). The Dictionary of National Biography: 1931-1940. Oxford University Press, 1949.