Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Buckmaster GCVO PC KC |
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| Lord Chancellor | |
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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 |
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| Born |
9 January 1861 London, England |
| Died |
5 December 1934 (aged 73) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Augusta Lewin (m. 1889; his death 1934) |
| Education | Christ Church, Oxford |
Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster GCVO PC KC (9 January 1861 – 5 December 1934) was a British lawyer and Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for most of the years from 1906 to 1915, when he was elevated to the peerage and served as Lord Chancellor under H. H. Asquith from 1915 to 1916.
Buckmaster was born on 9 January 1861 to John Charles Buckmaster, of Ashleigh, Hampton Wick, by his wife Emily Anne Goodliffe. He was educated at Aldenham and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1884 at the Inner Temple and appointed King's Counsel in April 1902.
At the 1906 general election, Buckmaster was elected as MP for Cambridge, winning the seat from the Conservatives with a majority of less than 4%. At the January 1910 general election, he lost the seat to the Conservative Almeric Paget on a 5% swing. He contested Cambridge again at the December 1910 election, but made only a small dent in the Conservative majority.
Buckmaster returned to the Commons the following year, when he was elected at a by-election in October 1911 for the safe Liberal seat of Keighley in Yorkshire. He was knighted in 1913 on his appointment as Solicitor general, when he was comfortably re-elected in the ministerial by-election.
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