John Richard Buckland, was an Australian school teacher and first headmaster of The Hutchins School, Tasmania.
Background
Buckland was the son of the Review John Buckland, Rector of Templeton, Devonshire, and a nephew of Doctor William Buckland, Dean of Westminster. He received his early education from his father at Laleham, and was then sent to Rugby School, of which school his uncle, Doctor Arnold, was at the time head master.
Career
At the age of seventeen he went to the University of Oxford, where he held a studentship at Christ Church. After taking his degree Buckland determined to emigrate to the colonies, and sailed for New Zealand, but in consequence of the unsettled state of affairs in that colony he removed to Tasmania, arriving in Hobart in February 1843. He was for a time second master of the Queen"s School, of which the Review
John Philip Gell was head master.
On the closing of that school he opened a private school. In 1845 he was ordained.
lieutenant soon became one of the leading schools of the colony, a position which it has ever since maintained, a large number of the most prominent men of Tasmania having received their education at the Hutchins School. Buckland held the post of headmaster for twenty-eight years, until his death, which took place at Hobart on 13 October 1874.