Edmund Buckley (24 December 1780 - 21 January 1867) was a British

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politician. He was a successful industrialist, owning iron works, collieries and cotton mills. He was the Chairman of the Manchester Exchange during the 1850s, resigning that post in 1860. He was elected at the 1841 general election as a

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(MP) for

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, and held the seat until the 1847 general election, when he did not stand again. His illegitimate son Edmund Peck, was born in 1834. Peck later adopted his father's surname and inherited his fortune, and became

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 ...

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* 1780 births 1867 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English people of Irish descent UK MPs 1841–1847 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Newcastle-under-Lyme Dinas Mawddwy {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1780s-stub