Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury, PC (15 September 1845 – 27 October 1935), was a British barrister and judge.

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Buckley was the fourth son of Reverend John Wall Buckley and his wife Elizabeth Burton, daughter of Thomas Burton; his elder sister

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was a writer and science educator. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at

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. He was Tancred law student from 1866 to 1872. Buckley was called to the bar at

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in 1869, and became a

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in 1886. He was a member of the Bar Committee and of the Bar Council from 1882 to 1898. In January 1900 he was appointed a judge of the

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, and he received the customary

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from

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on 3 March 1900. He became a

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and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1906, and on his retirement in 1915 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Wrenbury, of Old Castle in the County of East Sussex. In May 1901 he was elected an

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Lord Wrenbury married Bertha Margaretta Jones (1866–1960), daughter of Charles Edward Jones, in 1887. They had four sons and four daughters: * Hon. Joyce Burton Buckley (b. 1889) * Hon. Bryan Burton Buckley, 2nd Baron Wrenbury (1890–1940), married Helen Malise Graham * Guy Burton Buckley (b. 1892) * Hon. Muriel Burton Buckley (1894–1976), married Bernard Warren Williams * Hon. Olive Burton Buckley (b. 1896), married Stephen Romney Maurice Gill * Hon. Ruth Burton Buckley (1898–1986) * Hon. Colin Burton Buckley (1899–1981), married Evelyn Joyce Webster * Hon. Sir Denys Burton Buckley (1906–1998), married Gwendolen Jane Armstrong-Jones He died at his home in Melbury Road, London, in October 1935, aged 90, and was cremated at

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. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Bryan Burton Buckley, 2nd Baron Wrenbury. His younger son Sir Denys Burton Buckley also became a judge of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales and a Lord Justice of Appeal.

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*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *Legg, L. G. Wickham (editor). ''The Dictionary of National Biography: 1931-1940''. Oxford University Press, 1949. 1845 births 1935 deaths People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Members of Lincoln's Inn Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Knights Bachelor Chancery Division judges Barons created by George V {{UK-baron-stub

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