Edward Buck
Edward Buck may refer to: * Edward Buck (rower) (1859–?), English schoolmaster and rower * Edward Buck (lawyer) (1814–1876), American lawyer * Edward Charles Buck (1838–1916), British civil servant in the Indian Civil Service * Ed Buck Edward Bernard Peter Buck (né Buckmelter; born August 24, 1954) is an American convicted felon and businessman. A former model and actor, he made a significant amount of money running and selling the data service company Gopher Courier. He becam ...

Edward Charles Buck
Sir Edward Charles Buck, KCSI (1838 – 6 July 1916) was a British civil servant who served in the Indian Civil Service and came to be known as the "Grand Old Man" of Indian agriculture. Family and education Buck was the son of Zechariah Buck, organist and master of the choristers at Norwich Cathedral for 58 years, and his second wife, Lucy Holloway. He was educated in Norwich and at Oakham School and later studied at Clare College, Cambridge, receiving a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree in 1862. In 1886, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law (LL.D.) degree, and in 1898 he became an honorary Fellow of Clare College. His nephew, Sir Edward John Buck (1862-1948), was for many years a Reuters correspondent in India. Career Buck joined the Bengal Civil Service and served in the agricultural department of the North-Western Provinces from 1875 to 1880 before becoming a secretary to the Revenue and Agricultural Department in 1882, succeeding Allan Octavian Hume. Along with Lockwo ...
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Edward Buck (rower)
Edward Buck (born 1859) was an English schoolmaster and rower who won several events at Henley Royal Regatta. Buck was the son of Albert Buck of Worcester. He was educated at Malvern College and matriculated at Hertford College, Oxford in 1876 where he studied mathematics and won the Hershell Astronomy Prize in 1881. While at Oxford Buck was a successful rower. He was on the staff as an assistant master at Bedford School between 1879 and 1894 but continued rowing for Oxford. He rowed in the winning Oxford crew in the 1881 Boat Race. He was also a member of the Hertford crew that won the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in the same year. He repeated his success in 1882 when he was in the winning Oxford crew in the Boat Race again and in the winning Hertford crew in Stewards. In 1888 he won Silver Goblets at Henley partnering Noel Symonds.
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Edward Buck (lawyer)
Edward Buck (October 6, 1814 – July 16, 1876) was an American lawyer and writer. Buck, the fifth son of Gurdon and Susannah (Manwaring) Buck, and a descendant of Gov. Gurdon Saltonstall, of Connecticut, was born in New York City, Oct. 6, 1814. He graduated from Yale College in 1835. He studied law in New York, and began practice in that city in 1838. In 1843 he removed to Boston, where he continued actively engaged in his profession until his death. From 1854 his residence was in Andover, Mass., where he died, July 16, 1876, in his 62nd year. Buck was a frequent writer for the newspapers, and published in 1866 an important volume on ''Massachusetts Ecclesiastical Law'' (Boston, 8vo, 316 pp.). As a prominent Christian layman his interest in all educational and philanthropic matters was always intelligent and active. He married, June 8, 1841, Elizabeth Greene, daughter of Hon. Samuel Hubbard, of Boston, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. She survived him with ...
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