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[[Image:1stViscountBuckmaster.jpg|thumb|175px|Stanley Buckmaster, <br />1st Viscount Buckmaster]]<br />
'''Viscount Buckmaster''', of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom]]. It was created in 1933 for the lawyer and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician and former [[Lord Chancellor]], [[Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster|Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Baron Buckmaster]]. He had already been created '''Baron Buckmaster''', of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, in 1915, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. His grandson, the third Viscount Buckmaster left school to join the British military's [[Royal Sussex Regiment]] branch during [[World War II]]. In 1940 he received commission and served in the [[Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II|Middle East]], he subsequently was granted and honorary rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]], he moved on to new roles in government from 1953.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34928 |date=20 August 1940 |page=5144 |supp=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39882 |date=5 June 1953 |page=3208 |supp=y}}</ref> The viscount was appointed an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[1979 Birthday Honours]] and was a diplomat working in the foreign office between 1946-1981 working in the middle east and Africa.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=47869 |date=15 June 1979 |page=7 |supp=y}}</ref> {{As of|2017}}<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1554422/Viscount-Buckmaster.html| website=telegraph.co.uk| title= Viscount Buckmaster|access-date=14 June 2007}}</ref> the titles are held by the latter's nephew, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cracroftspeerage.co.uk/buckmaster1933.htm| website=cracroftspeerage.co.uk|title=Buckmaster, Viscount (UK, 1933)|access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=November 2021}}<br />
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The family seat is Ryece Hall, near [[Ipswich]], [[Suffolk]].<br />
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==Viscounts Buckmaster (1933)==<br />
*[[Stanley Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster|Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster]] (1861–1934)<br />
*[[Owen Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster|Owen Stanley Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster]] (1890–1974)<br />
*[[Martin Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster|Martin Stanley Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster]] (1921–2007)<br />
*[[Adrian Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster|Adrian Charles Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster]] (b. 1949)<br />
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The [[heir apparent]] is the present holder's grandson, Rupert Stanley Buckmaster (b. 2015)<br />
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==Arms==<br />
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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Buckmaster Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]<br />
|escutcheon = Or semee of fleurs-de-lis Azure a lion rampant of the last on a chief of the second a portcullis of the first.<br />
|crest = A demi-lion Azure holding in the dexter paw a fleur-de-lis and charged on the shoulder with a portcullis both Or.<br />
|supporters = On either side a bulk Proper each gorged with a chain pendant therefrom a portcullis Or.<br />
|motto = Equanimitas Magnanimitas (Equanimity, Magnanimity)<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=1899}}</ref>}}<br />
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* [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|15px]] ''Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (1861—1934)''<br />
** [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|15px]] ''Owen Stanley Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster (1890—1974)''<br />
*** [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|15px]] ''Martin Stanley Buckmaster, 3rd Viscount Buckmaster (1921—2007)''<br />
*** ''Hon. Colin John Buckmaster (1923—2003)''<br />
**** [[File:Coronet of a British Viscount.svg|15px]] '''Adrian Charles Buckmaster, 4th Viscount Buckmaster''' (b. 1949)<br />
***** ''Hon. Andrew Nicholas Buckmaster (1980—2023)''<br />
****** '''(1)''' Rupert Stanley Buckmaster (b. 2015)<br />
**** '''(2)''' Simon John Buckmaster (b. 1956)<br />
***** '''(3)''' George John Buckmaster (b. 1984)<br />
***** '''(4)''' Hugo Denis Buckmaster (b. 1987)<br />
***** '''(5)''' Toby Colin Buckmaster (b. 1991)<br />
**** '''(3)''' Michael Anthony Stanley Buckmaster (b. 1959)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/152 | location=London |publisher=London: Dean & son, limited|page=152}}<br />
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-owen-buckmaster | Owen Stanley Buckmaster, 2nd Viscount Buckmaster }}<br />
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