John Channing Buckland (1844 – 4 April 1909) was a 19th-century

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from

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, New Zealand. Buckland was born in

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in 1844, the son of

William Buckland William Buckland Doctor of Divinity, DD, Royal Society, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and paleontology, palaeontologist. Buckland wrote the first full ...

and Susan (née Channing).

Alfred Buckland Alfred Buckland (17 December 1825 – 12 June 1903) was a New Zealand landowner, auctioneer, farmer, pastoralist and businessman. His house, Highwic, is registered by Heritage New Zealand as a Category I structure, with registration number 1 ...

was his uncle. Frank Buckland and Bessie Buckland were younger siblings; his brother became a politician and his sister (who married the collector and bibliographer

Thomas Hocken Thomas Morland Hocken (14 January 1836 – 17 May 1910) was a New Zealand collector, bibliographer and researcher. Early life He was born in Rutlandshire on 14 January 1836, the son of Wesleyan minister Joshua Hocken, and educated at Woodhouse ...

) a notable artist and translator. Buckland received his education at Dr. Kinder's Grammar School and at St John's College in Auckland. On 17 December 1867, John Buckland married Caroline Fairburn. She was a daughter of

William Thomas Fairburn William Thomas Fairburn (3 September 1795 – 10 January 1859) was a carpenter and a lay preacher or catechist for the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) in the early days of European settlement of New Zealand. Early life He was born in England ...

. Her sister Elizabeth Fairburn was a missionary, teacher and bible translator and she was married to the missionary

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. Buckland fought in the

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under Colonel

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. Afterwards, he went to England for some years and returned in 1867, when he settled in

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near Auckland, one of the

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settlements established during the 1840s. Some years later, he moved to Otago and first lived at

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and then at Taieri. He sold his holdings in Taieri in 1899. Buckland represented the Waikouaiti electorate from to 1887, when he was defeated in the Waihemo electorate by John McKenzie. He was defeated again in by McKenzie in the Waitaki electorate. His brother Frank Buckland was a member for south Auckland electorates at the same time. In 1902, Buckland moved from North Otago to

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, where he bought the Mount Bossu estate sheep farm at

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. He served on the Akaroa Council Council for four years but did not stand for re-election in 1908 over failing health. He died on 4 April 1909 at his homestead, The Glen. He was survived by his wife and seven children, including Jessie Buckland. His grandson,

Geoffrey Orbell Geoffrey Buckland Orbell (7 October 1908 – 14 August 2007) was a New Zealand doctor and keen tramper (bush walker) who was responsible for the rediscovery of the takahē in 1948. Biography Orbell grew up on a farm at Pukeuri, near Oam ...

, was born a few months before his death to his daughter Rachel Orbell.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckland, John 1844 births 1909 deaths Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for Dunedin electorates Unsuccessful candidates in the 1887 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1890 New Zealand general election 19th-century New Zealand politicians

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People from Akaroa Fairburn–Newman family