James Buckley (priest)

{{Short description|Welsh archdeacon (1849–1924)}}

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The Ven. James Rice Buckley , BD (28 January 1849 – 8 September 1924) Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, Sep 13, 1924; pg. 14; Issue 43756 was Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1913Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Sep 02, 1913; pg. 3; Issue 40306 until his death.[http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/john/16.html The Victorian Web]

He was educated at Carmarthen Grammar School‘BUCKLEY, Ven. James Rice’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U194118, accessed 10 Feb 2014] and St David's College, Lampeter; and ordained in 1872. After a curacy in Neath he was Vicar of Llandaff from 1878 to "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 1913. He was later a Surrogate for the Diocese of Llandaff ;’The Diocese of Llandaff’ Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), Thursday, August 14, 1879; Issue 3203 then its Rural Dean.Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 22, 1895; pg. 11; Issue 34531

There is a statue of him on Llandaff’s Cathedral Green.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/william-goscombe-john/ BBC Wales]