Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

The Viscount Buckmaster
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office
25 May 1915 – 5 December 1916
MonarchGeorge V
Prime MinisterH. H. Asquith
Preceded byThe Viscount Haldane
Succeeded byThe Lord Finlay
Personal details
Born9 January 1861 (1861-01-09)
London, England
Died5 December 1934 (1934-12-06) (aged 73)
London, England
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
Edith Augusta Lewin
(m. 1889)
EducationChrist Church, Oxford

Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, GCVO, PC (9 January 1861 – 5 December 1934) was a British lawyer and Liberal Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for most of the years from 1906 to 1915, when he was elevated to the peerage and served as Lord Chancellor under H. H. Asquith from 1915 to 1916.[1]

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