Henry Buckley was a British ornithologist who made significant contributions to the field. He was a Fellow of the Zoological Society and a member of the British Ornithologists' Union. Buckley joined the British Ornithologists' Union in 1866 but resigned in 1887. The British Museum holds his manuscript on egg collection, which spans two volumes covering the years 1858 to 1877, as well as a list of his collection of American bird eggs, dated around 1860.

William Charles Buckley was born in 1852 in Galway, Ireland.

He was president and proprietor of the Colonial Lubricating Company. About 1877 he moved to Montreal, Quebec and became interested in the oil business, finally forming the Colonial Lubricating Company. He was a member of the Board of Trade and the Canadian Club and was interested in the work of the Montreal Art Association.

In 1881, he married Marguerite Sarah McFee (1851–1947). He died on December 7, 1912, in Montreal, Quebec.

Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster, was born on January 9, 1861, in London, England.

He was a British lawyer and a Liberal politician. He was educated at Aldenham School and Christ Church, Oxford (1882). He was called to the Bar in 1884 at the Inner Temple. In 1902, he was appointed King's Counsel and joined Lincoln's Inn. He entered Parliament as a Liberal MP in the 1906 general election. Buckmaster held office as a Member of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster, as Solicitor-General (1913-1915), and as Lord Chancellor (1915-1916). He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1915 and raised to the peerage as Baron Buckmaster. 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 (1924-1929). He was awarded Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1930 and was made Viscount Buckmaster, of Cheddington in the County of Buckingham, in 1933. Buckmaster was awarded honorary degrees by the universities of Toronto (1925), Oxford, and Edinburgh (both 1933).

In 1889, he married Edith Augusta Lewin (1862–1935). He died on December 5, 1934, in London, England.