John Alexander Strachey Bucknill

Sir John Bucknill KC (14 September 1873 – 6 October 1926) was a British lawyer and Judge. He served as Attorney General of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements and Puisne Judge in Patna, India.

Bucknill was born in Clifton, Bristol, England on 14 September 1873. He was the son of Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill a Justice of the High Court in England. His younger brother was Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963), who became a High Court Judge in England and in 1945 was appointed a Privy Councillor.

Bucknill was educated at Charterhouse School and Keble College, Oxford where he took honours in the Natural Science School. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1896 and practiced on the Midland Circuit until 1902.

In 1901 Bucknill married Alice, youngest daughter of Admiral Sir George Henry Richards FRS. They had three daughters, Mary Alice Hare (born 1902 Epsom), Honor Bell (born 1904) and Elizabeth (born 1909).

In 1902, just after the Boer War, Bucknill was appointed Commissioner of Patents in the newly established Transvaal Colony and also served on the legislature.

In 1907 he was appointed King's Advocate in Cyprus.

From 1912 to 1914 he served as Attorney General of Hong Kong. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1913 while in Hong Kong.

...
Wikipedia