| The Right Honourable The Viscount Buckmaster GCVO PC KC |
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| Lord Chancellor | |
| In office 25 May, 1915 – 5 December, 1916 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Haldane |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Finlay |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 January 1861 |
| Died | 5 December 1934 London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Lewin (d. 1935) |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, GCVO, PC, KC (9 January 1861 – 5 December 1934) was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He was Lord Chancellor under H. H. Asquith between 1915 and 1916.
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Buckmaster was the third son of John Charles Buckmaster, of Ashleigh, Hampton Wick, by his wife Emily Anne (née Goodliffe), and was educated at Aldenham and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to Bar, Inner Temple in 1884 and appointed King's Counsel in 1902.
At the 1906 general election, Buckmaster was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for Cambridge, losing the seat in at the January 1910 general election. He then sat for Keighley, Yorkshire, from 1911 to 1915. He was a Member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster and served under H. H. Asquith as Solicitor-General from 1913 to 1915. He was knighted in 1913. In 1915 he was sworn of the Privy Council, raised to the peerage as Baron Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, and appointed Lord Chancellor, a post he held until December 1916, when Asquith was ousted as Prime Minister.
Buckmaster was also Counsel to the University of Oxford from 1911 to 1913, Director of The Press Bureau, 1914 to 1915, and a member of The Interallied Conference on Finance and Supplies. He later served as Chairman of the Governing Body of Imperial College of Science and Technology and as Chairman of the Political Honours Review Committee between 1924 and 1929. He was appointed GCVO in 1930 and was made Viscount Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, in 1933.
Buckmaster married Edith Augusta, daughter of Spencer Robert Lewin, in 1889. Their eldest daughter the Hon. Barbara was the mother of the Conservative politician Hal Miller. Buckmaster died in December 1934, aged 73, and was succeeded in his titles by his only son, Owen. Lady Buckmaster died in October 1935.
For a fuller biography see William Goodhart, ‘Buckmaster, Stanley Owen, first Viscount Buckmaster (1861–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Sir Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald, Bt |
Member of Parliament for Cambridge 1906 – January 1910 |
Succeeded by Almeric Paget |
| Preceded by Sir John Brigg |
Member of Parliament for Keighley 1911 – 1915 |
Succeeded by Sir Swire Smith |
| Legal offices | ||
| Preceded by Sir John Simon |
Solicitor General 1913 – 1915 |
Succeeded by Sir F. E. Smith |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by The Viscount Haldane |
Lord Chancellor 1915 – 1916 |
Succeeded by The Viscount Finlay |
| Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Viscount Buckmaster 1933 – 1934 |
Succeeded by Owen Buckmaster |
| Baron Buckmaster 1915 – 1934 |
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