Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster

Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster GCVO PC, (9 January 1861 – 5 December 1934) was a Liberal politician in the United Kingdom.

The third son of John Charles Buckmaster of Ashleigh, Hampton Wick, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to Bar, Inner Temple in 1884 and appointed King's Counsel in 1902. At the 1906 general election, he was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament for Cambridge, losing the seat in at the January 1910 general election. He then sat for Keighley, Yorkshire, from 1911 to 1915.

He held office as Member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, as Solicitor-General from 1913 to 1915 and as Lord Chancellor from 1915-1916. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1915.

He was Counsel to the University of Oxford from 1911-1913, Director of The Press Bureau, 1914-1915, and a member of The Interallied Conference on Finance and Supplies. He later served as Chairman of the Governing Body of Imperial College of Science and Technology and as Chairman of the Political Honours Review Committee, 1924 and 1929. He was knighted in 1913, and created 1st Baron Buckmaster of Cheddington in 1915, and raised to the viscountcy in 1933. He was appointed GCVO in 1930.

For a fuller biography see William Goodhart, ‘Buckmaster, Stanley Owen, first Viscount Buckmaster (1861–1934)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.