Background
Buck was the son of Albert Buck of Worcester.
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Edward Buck
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Hertford College.
Career
While at Oxford Buck was a successful rower. He was on the staff as an assistant master at Bedford School between 1879 and 1894 but continued rowing for Oxford. He rowed in the winning Oxford crew in the 1881 Boat Race.
He repeated his success in 1882 when he was in the winning Oxford crew in the Boat Race again and in the winning Hertford crew in Stewards.
In 1895 Buck went to Barbados where he spent two years as headmaster of The Lodge School. In 1899 back in England he became assistant master at Street Edmund"s School in Canterbury.
In 1902 he moved to Christ"s Hospital at Horsham.
Achievements
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He was educated at Malvern College and matriculated at Hertford College, Oxford in 1876 where he studied mathematics and won the Hershell Astronomy Prize in 1881. He was also a member of the Hertford crew that won the Stewards" Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta in the same year. In 1888 he won Silver Goblets at Henley partnering Noel Symonds.
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Christian