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Stanley Owen Buckmaster Buckmaster

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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"STANLEY OWEN BUCKMASTER BUCKMASTER, 1ST Baron (1861-), English lawyer and politician, was born at Wandsworth Jan. 9 1861. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1884 was called to the bar, becoming a K.C. in 1902. He entered politics as a Liberal, and in 1906 was elected M.P. for Cambridge. In 1910 he lost his seat, but in 1911 was elected for the Keighley division of Yorks., and the same year became counsel to Oxford University. In 1913 he was made solicitor-general and knighted. He was from Sept. 1914 to May 1915 director of the Press Bureau. In the latter year he was Lord Chancellor, being raised to the peerage, but was displaced on the fall of the Asquith Government in 1916.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Stanley Owen Buckmaster Buckmaster'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/stanley-owen-buckmaster-buckmaster.html. 1910.
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