The Buckley Baronetcy, of Mawddwy

Dinas Mawddwy

Dinas Mawddwy is a village in Gwynedd, north Wales, just to the side of the A470 so that most visitors pass the village by. Its population is roughly 600. The village marks the junction of the unclassified road to Llanuwchllyn which climbs up through the mountains to cross Bwlch y Groes at its...

 in the County of Merioneth, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1868 for Edmund Buckley

Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet

Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1878....

 (1834–1910), a British landowner and Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician. He owned the Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Company and served from 1865 to 1878 as one of the two Members of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 (MPs) for the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme

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The title became extinct on the death in 1919 of the second baronet.

Buckley Baronets, of Mawddwy, Merioneth (1868)

• Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet was an English landowner and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1878....
  
  (1834–1910)
• Sir Edmund Buckley, 2nd Baronet (1861–1919)