The Henson Journals
Stanley Owen Buckmaster
Stanley Buckmaster (1861-1934; ODNB), barr., QC 1902; MP (L) Cambridge, 1906-10, Keighley, 1910-15; solicitor-general, 1913-15; kt 1913; lord chancellor, 1915-16; Baron Buckmaster, 1915; active law lord and forceful speaker on liberal causes; introduced a Divorce Bill in the House of Lords, 1920, to challenge the Church's resistance to divorce law reform; chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, 1929; viscount, 1933; see also Volume 56, 62.
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