Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster PC KC GCVO (* 9. January 1861 ; † 5. December 1934 in London ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party , among other intermittently for eight years member of the House of Commons and between 1915 and 1916 was Lord Chancellor (Lord High Chancellor) .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

After attending the Aldenham School, Buckmaster first completed an undergraduate degree at Christ Church at the University of Oxford , which he completed in 1882 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After studying law , he was admitted to the bar ( Inns of Court ) of Inner Temple in 1884 and then took up a position as a barrister . He completed another postgraduate course at Christ Church in 1886 with a Master of Arts (MA). Besides his work as a barrister he was also a magistrate (justice of the peace) of Hertfordshire and was for his lawyer's services in 1902 to Attorney General (King's Counsel) appointed and the so-called "Bencher" the Bar Association of the Inner Temple.

On January 12, 1906, Buckmaster was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party in the constituency of Cambridge Borough to a member of the House of Commons and was able to prevail with 4232 votes (51.89 percent) against the candidate of the Conservative Party , Almeric Paget , the 3924 Got votes (48.11 percent). However, he already lost his mandate in the following election on January 15, 1910 against Paget, who was now ahead with 4667 votes (53.35 percent), while this time he received only 4081 votes (46.65 percent).

In a by -election in the Keighley constituency on October 27, 1911, Buckmaster was re-elected to the House of Commons for the Liberals, with 4667 votes (39.0 percent). He was not only able to prevail against the conservative William Mitchell Acworth , who received 3842 votes (32.1 percent), but also against William Crawford Anderson , who was third-placed 3452 votes (28.9 percent) at the time Chairman of the Independent Labor Party (ILP) was. He was a member of the House of Commons until May 27, 1915, during which time between 1911 and 1913 he was also legal advisor to the University of Oxford.

Solicitor General, Lord Chancellor and Member of the House of Lords

Buckmaster, who on December 15, 1913 Knight Bachelor was beaten and then on the name suffix led "Sir" in 1913 succeeded John Allsebrook Simon as Solicitor General and was as such until his replacement by Frederick Edwin Smith in 1915 Deputy Attorney General (Attorney General) and thus one of the most important advisers to the Crown and the government of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith . In addition to this activity he was also director of the press office between 1914 and 1915.

On May 27, 1915, Buckmaster succeeded Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane Lord Chancellor for England and Wales, and held this office until the end of Prime Minister Asquith's tenure on December 5, 1916 and his subsequent replacement by Robert Finlay, 1st. Baron Finlay . At the same time he became a member of the Privy Council on May 27, 1915 and by a letters patent from June 14, 1915 as a hereditary peer with the title Baron Buckmaster , of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, and thus also belonged to the House of Lords as a member on.

Buckmaster, who had received honorary doctorates from the University of Oxford (Doctor of Civil Law) , the University of Toronto (Doctor of Law) and the University of Edinburgh (Doctor of Law), was chairman of the Committee for the Review of Political Honors (Political Honors Review ) in 1924 Committee) and in 1926 president of the oil company British Controlled Oilfields Ltd .

For his many years of service he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1930 and by another Letters Patent from February 24, 1933 to the hereditary Viscount Buckmaster , of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham.

After his death he was buried in the Golders Green Cemetery in London. His marriage to Edith Augusta Lewin on December 29, 1889 resulted in three children, including his eldest son Owen Stanley Buckmaster , who also received his license as a barrister from the Inner Temple Bar Association, and his father after his death as Viscount and Baron Buckmaster followed.

Web links

• Stanley Buckmaster at Hansard (English)
• Entry on cracroftspeerage.co.uk
• Entry in leighrayment.com
• Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 17, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Buckmaster 1932-1934	Owen Buckmaster
New title created	Baron Buckmaster 1915-1934	Owen Buckmaster