Henry Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury

Career

Buckley was the fourth son of Reverend John Wall Buckley and his wife Elizabeth Burton, daughter of Thomas Burton; his elder sister Arabella was a writer and science educator. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was Tancred law student from 1866 to 1872.

Buckley was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1869, and became a Queen's Counsel 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 High Court of Justice of England and Wales, and he received the customary knighthood from Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle on 3 March 1900. He became a Lord Justice of Appeal 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 Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Family

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 Golders Green Crematorium. 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.