Viscount Buckmaster

Viscount Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1933 for the lawyer and Liberal politician and former Lord Chancellor, Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Baron Buckmaster. He had already been created Baron Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, in 1915, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His grandson, the third Viscount Buckmaster left school to join the British military's Royal Sussex Regiment branch during World War II. In 1940 he received commission and served in the Middle East, he subsequently was granted and honorary rank of Captain, he moved on to new roles in government from 1953.[1][2] The viscount was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1979 Birthday Honours and was a diplomat working in the foreign office between 1946-1981 working in the middle east and Africa.[3] As of 2017[4] the titles are held by the latter's nephew, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 2007.[5]

Stanley Buckmaster,
1st Viscount Buckmaster

The family seat is Ryece Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk.

Viscounts Buckmaster (1933)

The heir apparent is the present holder's grandson the Hon. Rupert Stanley Buckmaster (b. 2015)

Notes
  1. "No. 34928". The London Gazette (Supplement). 20 August 1940. p. 5144.
  2. "No. 39882". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1953. p. 3208.
  3. "No. 47869". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1979. p. 7.
  4. "Viscount Buckmaster". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
  5. "Buckmaster, Viscount (UK, 1933)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2021.

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