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George was born on June 10, 1854, in Twerton, Somerset, United Kingdom. Buckle was the son of George Buckle, canon of Wells Cathedral, and Mary Hamlyn Earle, the sister of the philologist John Earle.
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George was born on June 10, 1854, in Twerton, Somerset, United Kingdom. Buckle was the son of George Buckle, canon of Wells Cathedral, and Mary Hamlyn Earle, the sister of the philologist John Earle.
He attended Honition grammar school and Winchester College before beginning studies at New College, Oxford in 1873. There he won the Newdigate Prize in 1875 and received a first class in both literae humaniores and modern history.
In 1880 he was admitted to the bar but did not practice, for in the same year he became a member of the staff of The Times of London. When Thomas Chenery, the editor, died four years later, Buckle was selected to fill the vacancy. He chose as his assistant another young editor, John B. Capper, and it was then said that the Times was being run by "two boys. " Buckle believed in a policy of sane imperialism, and encouraged the economical and political development of India. However, he opposed home rule for Ireland. During his tenure as editor, the Times in 1887 published forged letters of Charles S. Parnell, believing them to be authentic, and the resultant embarrassment led to the reorganization of the paper under Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe. Buckle resigned as editor in 1912, and upon the death of William F. Monypenny that same year, undertook the completion of the last four volumes of The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (6 vols. , 1910 - 1920). Buckle also edited The Letters of Queen Victoria, second series (3 vols. , 1926 - 1928); and third series (3 vols. , 1930 - 1932). He died in Chelsea, London, on March 3, 1935.
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1916Buckle married twice. His first marriage, in 1885, was to Alicia Isobel, the third daughter of the novelist James Payn; their union produced two children. After Alicia's death, Buckle married his first cousin Beatrice Anne, the second daughter of John Earle, in 1905.