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| name = Herbert Buckmaster

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| birth_name = Herbert John Buckmaster

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|11|21|df=y}}

| birth_place = Ramsgate, Kent, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1966|10|14|1881|11|15|df=yes}}

| death_place = Wargrave, Berkshire, England

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| spouses =

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  • Gladys Cooper (1908–1921)
  • Nellie Taylor (1923–1932)
  • Grace Stanley (1940–1966)

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| children = 2, including John R. Buckmaster

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| occupation = Cavalry officer

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Herbert John Buckmaster (21 November 1881 – 14 October 1966), known as Buck,{{sfn|Morley|1979|p=21}} was an English soldier. He was the first husband of actress Gladys Cooper (1888–1971) and the father of actor John R. Buckmaster (1915–1983).

He was educated at Sherborne School, then Eton College. He served in the Boer War{{sfn|Morley|1979|p=20}} and in France during WW I, from early 1915{{sfn|Morley|1979|p=53}} for three-and-a-half years.{{sfn|Morley|1979|p=75}}

He founded Buck's Club,{{sfn|Morley|1979|p=76}} whence the name "Buck's Fizz" originated.{{sfn|Old Shirburnian Society}}

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Early life

Attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) during 1896-1900.{{sfn|Sherborne alumni}}

Career

=Military career=

=Buck’s Club=

Personal life

His first marriage was to Gladys Cooper (1888–1971), on 12 December 1908 at St George's, Hanover Square.{{sfn|Morley|1979|pp=27–28}} The couple had two children: Joan (1910–2005), who married the actor Robert Morley, and John Rodney (1915–1983). His second marriage was to Nellie Taylor (1894–1932), on 2 October 1923 at the registry office in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.{{sfn|Buckmaster|1933|pp=240–241}}{{sfn|TopFoto, 2015}}{{sfn|St. Martin at UKBMD}} She died of leukaemia in 1932.{{sfn|Morley|1979|p=133}} On 4 July 1940, he married Grace Lowrey Stanley (1907–1977) in Woking, Surrey; she was the second daughter of Lord Stanley and formerly married in 1928 to Edward James Barford, whom she divorced in 1940.{{sfn|V&A Lafayette, 1989}}

  • Ref for Cooper (1931).{{sfn|Cooper|1931|pp=001–002}}
  • Ref for Morley (2017).{{sfn|Morley|2017|pp=001–002}}
  • Ref for Stokes (1953).{{sfn|Stokes|1953|pp=001–002}}

Works

  • Buck's Book : Ventures — Adventures and Misadventures (1933)

References

= Citations =

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==Books==

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  • {{cite book

|last = Buckmaster

|first = Herbert

|title = Buck's Book : Ventures — Adventures and Misadventures

|year = 1933

|edition = First

|type = hardcover

|location = London

|publisher = Grayson & Grayson

|isbn =

}}

  • {{cite book

|last = Cooper

|first = Gladys

|authorlink = Gladys Cooper

|title = Gladys Cooper

|year = 1931

|type = hardcover

|location = London

|publisher = Hutchinson

|isbn =

}}

  • {{cite book

|last = Morley

|first = Sheridan

|authorlink = Sheridan Morley

|title = Gladys Cooper : A Biography

|year = 1979

|type = hardcover

|location = London

|publisher = Heinemann

|isbn = 978-0-434-47896-5

}}

  • {{cite book

|last = Morley

|first = Sheridan

|title = Robert My Father : A Personal Biography of Robert Morley

|year = 2017

|orig-year = First published 1993

|type = softcover

|location = London

|publisher = Dean Street Press

|isbn = 978-1-911579-49-6

}}

  • {{cite book

|last = Stokes

|first = Sewell

|authorlink = Sewell Stokes

|others = Introduction by W. Somerset Maugham.

|title = Without Veils : The Intimate Biography of Gladys Cooper

|year = 1953

|type = hardcover

|location = London

|publisher = Peter Davies

|isbn =

}}

{{refend}}

==Newspapers and magazines==

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== Websites ==

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  • {{cite web

|last = Hassal

|first = Rachel

|title = Herbert Buckmaster: the man who put the 'Buck' into Buck's Fizz

|url = https://oldshirburnian.org.uk/herbert-buckmaster/

|publisher = The Old Shirburnian Society

|website = oldshirburnian.org.uk

|date =

|access-date = 5 September 2020

|df = dmy-all

|ref = {{sfnref|Old Shirburnian Society}}

}}

  • {{cite web

|title = Alumni : Herbert Buckmaster (1881-1966)

|url = https://www.sherborne.org/about-sherborne/our-boys/alumni

|publisher = Sherborne School

|website = sherborne.org

|date =

|access-date = 5 September 2020

|df = dmy-all

|ref = {{sfnref|Sherborne alumni}}

}}

  • {{cite web

|title = Wedding of Captain Herbert Buckmaster and Miss Nellie Taylor at St Martin Registry

|url = http://www.artprintsforpleasure.com/fashionistas/wedding-captain-herbert-buckmaster-miss-nellie-11006470.html

|date = 16 July 2015

|publisher = TopFoto

|website = artprintsforpleasure.com

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200905161145/https://www.artprintsforpleasure.com/image/658/11006470/11006470_450_450_73045_0_stretch_0_d922a91cca269fa34e5133f01cea7efd.jpg

|archive-date = 5 September 2020

|access-date = 5 September 2020

|df = dmy-all

|ref = {{sfnref|TopFoto, 2015}}

}}

  • {{cite web

|title = St. Martin Registry District

|url = https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/st%20martin.html

|publisher = UK Births, Marriages, Deaths on the internet

|website = ukbmd.org.uk

|date =

|access-date = 6 September 2020

|df = dmy-all

|ref = {{sfnref|St. Martin at UKBMD}}

}}

  • {{cite web

|title = The marriage of Hon. Grace Lowrey Stanley to Mr Edward James Barford M.C.

|url = http://lafayette.org.uk/sta11530.html

|year = 1989

|publisher = The V&A Lafayette Negative Archive

|website = lafayette.org.uk

|access-date = 6 September 2020

|df = dmy-all

|ref = {{sfnref|V&A Lafayette, 1989}}

}}

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External links

  • {{Find a Grave

|last = Coulter

|first = Steven

|id = 203835770

|name = Herbert John “Buck” Buckmaster

|work = Memorials

|date = 14 October 2019

}}