Background
Buckley was born as Edmund Peck, the illegitimate son of Edmund Buckley of Ardwick in Manchester.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Buckley was born as Edmund Peck, the illegitimate son of Edmund Buckley of Ardwick in Manchester.
He assumed the name of Buckley by Royal Licence in 1864 and inherited considerable estates in Lancashire and Wales including the estate at Dinas Mawddwy. He became involved in slate quarrying at the Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Company for which was built the Hendre-Ddu Tramway. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P.for Merionethshire.
He was created a baronet in December 1868.
At the 1868 general election he was re-elected for Newcastle-under-Lyme and held the seat until 1878, when he resigned from the Commons by taking the Chiltern Hundreds. In 1872 he built a lavish Victorian gothic mansion at Dinas Mawddwy called "Y Plas".
In 1873 he built a hotel, reputedly the oldest reinforced concrete building in Europe, which was called the Buckley Arms hotel. Buckley died at the age of 75.
Buckley married Sarah Rees, daughter of William Rees of Tonn near Llandovery in 1860.
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At the 1865 general election Buckley was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme.