Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury

Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury PC

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, QC

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(15 September 1845 - 27 October 1935, was a British

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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 Taylors' School

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and at Christ's College, Cambridge

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. Buckley was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn

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, in 1869, and became a Queen's Counsel

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in 1886. He was a member of the Bar Committee and of the Bar Council

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from 1882 to 1898 and served as a Judge of the High Court of Justice

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between 1900 and 1906 and as a Lord Justice of Appeal

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between 1906 and 1915. Buckley was admitted to the Privy Council

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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.

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