Edmund Buckley (politician, born 1780)
British Conservative politician
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Edmund Buckley (24 December 1780 – 21 January 1867)[2][1] was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a successful industrialist, owning iron works, collieries and cotton mills. He was the Chairman of the Manchester Exchange during the 1850s, resigning that post in 1860.[1]
He was elected at the 1841 general election as a member of parliament (MP) for Newcastle-under-Lyme,[3] and held the seat until the 1847 general election,[4] when he did not stand again.[5]
His illegitimate son Edmund Peck, was born in 1834.[6] Peck later adopted his father's surname and inherited his fortune, and became Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet.
