George Earle Buckle
George Earle Buckle | |
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Born | Somerset, England | 10 June 1854
Died | 13 March 1935 Chelsea, London, England | (aged 80)
Education | Winchester College New College, Oxford |
Occupation(s) | Editor and author |
Spouses | Alicia Isobel Payn
(m. 1885; died 1898)Beatrice Anne Earle (m. 1905) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | James Payn (father-in-law) |
George Earle Buckle (10 June 1854 – 13 March 1935) was an English editor and biographer.
Early life
Buckle was the son of George Buckle,
While
Editor of The Times
As editor, Buckle did little to alter either the appearance or the policies of the paper. No longer "the Thunderer" of old, its employees endeavoured to present the news irrespective of bias or interest. By now the staff saw themselves as a collective body serving the public interest, a sense preserved by its ongoing editorial practice of supporting whichever government was in power at the time. The paper's purchase and publication of
In the years that followed, Buckle's control over the day-to-day operations of The Times declined due to administrative reorganisation, as authority was gradually decentralised within the paper. Buckle's own duties were reduced slowly to matters of editorial control and the writing of the leading article. When Lord Northcliffe purchased the paper in 1908, he pressed forward with modernisation measures which Buckle had long resisted. The death of the managing director, Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, three years later eliminated the last check on the owner, and Northcliffe forced Buckle's resignation on 31 July 1911.
Literary career
A few months after his departure from The Times, Buckle was approached by the trustees of the estate of
Personal life
Buckle married twice. His first marriage, in 1885, was to Alicia Isobel, the third daughter of the novelist James Payn; their union produced two children. After Alicia's death, Buckle married his first cousin Beatrice Anne, the second daughter of John Earle, in 1905.
References
- ^ History of the Times, vol. 3:The Twentieth Century Test (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947), p. 13-16, 43–4, 55–56, 80–81
- ^ Stanley Weintraub, "Buckle, George Earle" in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 8, p. 526.
Further reading
- The History of The Times, vol. 3: The Twentieth Century Test, 1884–1912. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1947.
- Weintraub, Stanley. "Buckle, George Earle" in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), vol. 8, p. 525-7.