Viscount Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1933 for the lawyer and Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 politician and former Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

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, Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Baron Buckmaster

Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, GCVO, PC, KC was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He was Lord Chancellor under H. H...

. He had already been created Baron Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, in 1915, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His grandson, the third Viscount, was a diplomat. the titles are held by the latter's nephew, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 2007.

Viscounts Buckmaster (1933)

• Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
  Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
  Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, GCVO, PC, KC was a British lawyer and Liberal politician. He was Lord Chancellor under H. H...
  
   (1861–1934)
• Owen Stanley Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster (1890–1974)
• Martin Stanley Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster
  Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster
  Martin Stanley Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster, OBE served as a diplomat from 1946 to 1981. He sat on the crossbenches in the House of Lords from 1974....
  
   (1921–2007)
• Adrian Charles Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster
  Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster
  Adrian Charles Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster was born on 2 February 1949. He is the son of Hon. Colin John Buckmaster and May Gibbon.-Education:Adrian Charles Buckmaster was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, England...
  
   (b. 1949)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. Andrew Nicholas Buckmaster (b. 1980)