Charles Randolph Buckle
(1835-1920)
21 July 1862

Volume 8, page 282, 10,748.

[Charles Randolph Buckle is seen here in the uniform he wore while fighting with Garibaldi in Italy.]

Born on 29 October 1835, Charles Randolph Buckle was the eldest son of Reverend Matthew Hughes George Buckle, for many years the Vicar of Edlingham in Northumberland.

Randolph Buckle served thirty years in the Madras Royal Artillery, retiring with the rank of Major-General. He also served in the Garibaldian campaign of 1860, and was afterwards with the Sardinian Artillery at the siege of Gaeta (wounded). While in India, he shot the largest elephant ever known in Travancore, which had killed over thirty people. According to Who Was Who 1916-1928, his recreations were shooting and travelling, and his clubs were the Army and Navy and the United Services. 

Major-General Charles Randolph Buckle 'late Madras Royal Artillery' died, aged 85, at Bath on 14 November 1920.

According to report on his funeral in the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette (20 November 1920), 'The deceased officer was grandson of Admiral Mathew Buckle, who resided at 23, St James's Square, Bath, for many years, and died in the city. General Buckle was the eldest son of the Admiral's eldest son, the late Rev. Mathew Hughes George Buckle, for a long period Vicar of Edlingham, Northumberland, by his marriage with Miss Elizabeth Baines. The deceased served in the Madras Royal Artillery and retired on a pension iin 1886. He lived in Spain for a considerable time, and during the war was unable to leave that country. When he was able to travel, he came to Bath, but was in very bad health, and all the time he had been in Bath he had been an inmate of the Lansdown Crescent nursing home. Deceased was 85 years of age. He is succeeded in the headship of the family, the Buckles of Jordans, Sussex, by his brother, Admiral Claude Buckle.'