The Buckley Baronetcy, of

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in the

County of Merioneth , HQ= Dolgellau , Government= Merionethshire County Council (1889-1974) , Origin= , Status= , Start= 1284 , End= , Code= MER , CodeName= ...

, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1868 for Edmund Buckley, a British landowner and

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politician. He owned the Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Company and served from 1865 to 1878 as one of the two

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(MPs) for the

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. His son, also named Edmund Buckley, became the second Baronet on his father's death. The title became extinct in 1919 on the death of the second Baronet.

Buckley baronets, of Mawddwy, Merioneth (1868)

Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet (16 April 1834 – 21 March 1910) was a British landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1878. Buckley was born as Edmund Peck, the illegitimate son of Edmund Buckley of A ...

(1834–1910) *

Sir Edmund Buckley, 2nd Baronet Edmund Buckley (1861-1919) was the second Baronet of Mawddwy, inheriting the title from his father Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet. Biography Buckley was born at Llandovery in 1861. He was the son of Edmund Peck, who later took the surname Bu ...

(1861–1919)

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1868 establishments in the United Kingdom 1919 disestablishments