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Abel Buckley (1835 – 23 December 1908) was a British 
The Buckley family owned two cotton mills in Ashton: Ryecroft and Oxford Road, and Abel became involved in the business. At his death he was described as "one of the old cotton lords of Lancashire". In 1885 Buckley inherited
cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor p ...
manufacturer and Liberal politician of Irish
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descent.''Obituary: Mr Abel Buckley'', The Times, 24 December 1908, p.9
He was born in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. The population was 45,198 at the 2011 census. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the north bank of the River Tame, in the foothills of the Pennines, east of Manc ...
, Lancashire
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, the younger son of Abel Buckley and Mary Keehan of Alderdale Lodge. He was educated at Mill Hill School
Mill Hill School is a 13–18 mixed independent, day and boarding school in Mill Hill, London, England that was established in 1807. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
History
A committee of Nonconformist ...
and Owen's College
The Victoria University of Manchester, usually referred to as simply the University of Manchester, was a university in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1851 as Owens College. In 1880, the college joined the federal Victoria University. Af ...
. In 1875, he married Hannah Summers (who died in 1897) and they had one son, also Abel, born in 1876.''Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, or royal Manual of the titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland'' (London: Chatto & Windus
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, 1899)'Biographies of candidates', ''The Times
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'', 26 November 1885, p.3
The Buckley family owned two cotton mills in Ashton: Ryecroft and Oxford Road, and Abel became involved in the business. At his death he was described as "one of the old cotton lords of Lancashire". In 1885 Buckley inherited Ryecroft Hall
Ryecroft Hall is a Grade II listed building in Audenshaw, Tameside, Greater Manchester. Originally a home to several prominent local residents, the hall was ultimately donated to the people of Audenshaw by Austin Hopkinson in 1922 and still se ...
, Audenshaw
Audenshaw is a market town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, east of Manchester. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Lancashire, in United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 it had a population of 11,419.
The name derives from Al ...
, from his uncle, James Smith Buckley, and was to live there for the rest of his life. He subsequently inherited Galtee Castle
Galtee Castle was a mansion that was situated on the foothills of the Galtee Mountains at Skeheenarinky in County Tipperary, Ireland approximately 10 km. from Mitchelstown.
Origins
The original structure was built as a hunting lodge fo ...
, near Mitchelstown
Mitchelstown () is a town in County Cork, Ireland with a population of approximately 3,740. Mitchelstown is situated in the valley to the south of the Galtee Mountains, 12 km south-west of the Mitchelstown Caves, 28 km from Cahir, ...
, County Cork
County Cork ( ga, Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns ar ...
. The estate had been purchased by his uncle, Nathaniel Buckley, MP for Stalybridge
Stalybridge () is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 23,731 at the 2011 Census.
Historically divided between Cheshire and Lancashire, it is east of Manchester city centre and north-west of Glossop.
When ...
in 1873.
In 1885 Abel Buckley was elected Liberal MP for the newly created Prestwich constituency. In the general election of the following year, however, he was defeated.
Apart from his interests in the cotton industry, Buckley was a director and chairman of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company and a justice of the peace. He was a collector of fine art, and a racehorse breeder. He died at Ryecroft Hall on 23 December 1908, aged 73.
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1835 births 1908 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies English people of Irish descent UK MPs 1885–1886 19th-century English businesspeople {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub