Lieutenant-General Edward Buckley
(1796-1873)
2 July 1861

Volume 4, page 157, sitting number 4697.

The Silvy daybooks and a pencilled inscription verso in a period hand both identify the sitter as ‘Lieut. Gen. E. M. Buckley.’ The middle initial is possibly a mistake and this is Edward Pery Buckley, soldier and Member of Parliament. On 13 May 1828 he married Lady Catherine Bouverie, daughter of William Bouverie, 3rd Earl of Radnor and Catherine Pelham-Clinton.

He appears on the 1861 census, living at 12 South Audley Street, London, with his wife Catherine; son Victor, aged 22; and daughter Frances, aged 28. Also present on the night of the census were ten servants, including a butler and a footman.

General Edward Pery Buckley died on 28 May 1873 at 12 South Audley Street, London. He left an estate valued at £80,000. 

A lengthy obituary appeared in the Morning Post (29 May 1873), which read in part: 'The deceased general was son of Mr Edward Pery Buckley of Minestead Lodge, by Lady Georgina West, daughter of John, second Earl Delawarr [sic], and was born in November, 1796. He received his early education at Harrow, and being intended for the army, proceeded to the Royal Military College to complete his studies. [...] he leaves surviving issue four sons and a daughter. The late Geneal Buckley, who for many years had been one of her Majesty's equerries, represented Salisbury in the House of Commons during several Parliaments.' The obituary concludes with full details of the general's military career. 'He obtained his first commission in the Grenadier Guards in June, 1812, and served in the Peninsula with that regiment [...] He also served in the campaign of 1815, and was present at the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo [...] General Buckley remained in the Grenadier Guards till November, 1830, when he went on half pay. [...] He was appointed colonel of the 83d Regiment in August, 1865.'