Edmund Buckley (politician, born 1780)

Edmund Buckley
Sir Edmund Buckley
Born	Edmund Buckley (1780-12-25)December 25, 1780
Died	(1867-01-21)January 21, 1867[1]
Occupation	Industrialist
Children	16[1]

Edmund Buckley (24 December 1780 - 21 January 1867)[2][1] was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a successful industrialist, owning iron works, collieries and cotton mills. He was the Chairman of the Manchester Exchange during the 1850s, resigning that post in 1860.[1]

He was elected at the 1841 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme,[3] and held the seat until the 1847 general election,[4] when he did not stand again.[5]

His illegitimate son Edmund Peck, was born in 1834.[6] Peck later adopted his father's surname and inherited his fortune, and became Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet.

References

1. Stancliffe, F.S. (1938). John Shaw's 1738-1938. Sherratt & Hughes.
2. Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1850). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. 3. H. Colburn. p. 46.
3. "No. 19999". The London Gazette. 16 July 1841. p. 1855.
4. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
5. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 217. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
6. "Diaries of William Rees of Tonn, Llandovery. Cardiff City Library". Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2017.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Edmund Buckley

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Spencer de Horsey William Henry Miller	Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1841 – 1847 With: John Quincey Harris 1841–1842 John Campbell Colquhoun 1842–1847	Succeeded by Samuel Christy William Jackson