Wednesday, 26 July 2017

1628 Stanley Buckmaster



Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, by Walter Stoneman, 1915 - NPG x31062 - © National Portrait Gallery, London

Constituency : Cambridge 1906-10,  Keighley  1911-15

Stanley  took  Cambridge  from  the  Tories.

Stanley  was  educated  at  Aldenham  and  Oxford. He  became  a  barrister.

Stanley  was  defeated  in  January  1910  and  failed  to  recapture  the  seat  in  December.

Stanley  supported  female  suffrage.

In  1911  Stanley  returned  to  the  Commons  for  Keighley.  He  became  counsel  to  the  University  of  Oxford. He  was  appointed  to  Solicitor-General  in  1913  and  comfortably  retained  the  seat  in  the  by-election. He  was  knighted  at  the  same  time.

In  1915  the  Tories  made  the  removal  of  Haldane  as  Lord  Chancellor  a  condition  of  joining  the  wartime  coalition. Stanley  was  chosen  as  his  replacement  and  created  Baron  Buckmaster  for  the  purpose. He  served  until  Asquith's  resignation  in  1916.

Stanley  was  chairman  of  the  Political  Honours  Review  Committee  between  1924  and  1929.

Stanley  was  upgraded  to  a  viscount  in  1933.

He  died  in  1934  aged  73.


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