Marston Clarke Buszard

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(13 July 1837 – 11 September 1921) was an English barrister and a

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politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Buszard was born in

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. Leicestershire, the eldest son of Marston Buszard MD and his wife Sarah Catherine Clarke, eldest daughter of John Clarke of Peatling Hall who was

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in 1820. Buszard was educated at

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and at

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, where he was awarded BA 1st Class in Law and 12th

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in 1860, the Chancellor's medal for Legal Studies in 1863 and MA and LLM in 1863. He was called to Bar at

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in 1862 and became

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in 1877 and a Bencher of his Inn in 1880. Buszard was leader of the Midland Circuit for 31 years and was leading counsel to the Post Office on the Midland Circuit. At the 1874 general election, Buszard stood for

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unsuccessfully in Stamford. At the 1880 general election, he was elected Liberal

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(MP) for Stamford and held the seat until 1885. At the 1885 general election, when the borough constituency of Stamford was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act and the name transferred to a new county division, Buszard stood in

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, where he was heavily defeated by the

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candidate, and in

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he stood as a

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. Without a Conservative candidate, the election was a two-way contest between Buszard and the sitting Liberal MP

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, and Cobb held the seat with a majority of 6.4% over Buszard.Craig, op. cit., page 409 Buszard was

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of Derby from 1890 to 1899 and of Leicester in 1899. He was Deputy Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. It was noted that he was "A noted advocate with an unfailing gift for rhythmic language. As administrator of the Criminal Law was opposed to 'sickly humanitarianism and sentimentalism.'" Buszard married Louisa Threlfall in 1864, second daughter of John Mayor Threlfall of Manchester in 1864. Louisa died in 1895 and Buszard married Annie Violet Whitwell in 1898.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Buszard, Marston Clarke 1837 births 1921 deaths People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1880–1885 Liberal Unionist Party parliamentary candidates People from Lutterworth