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JAMES SILK BUCKINGHAM (1786-1855)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 727 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES
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SILK BUCKINGHAM (1786-1855)
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English author and traveller, was born near
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Falmouth on the 25th of August 1786, the son of a farmer . His youth was spent at sea . After years of wandering he established in 1818 the
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Calcutta Journal . This venture at first proved highly successful, but in 1823 thepaper's outspoken criticisms of the East India
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Company led to the expulsion of Buckingham from India and to the suppression of the paper by John Adam, the acting governor-general . His case was brought before parliament, and a pension of zoo a
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year was subsequently awarded him by the East India Company as compensation . Buckingharn continued his journalistic ventures on his return to England, and started the
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Oriental Herald (1824) and the
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Athenaeum (1828) which was not a success in his hands . In parliament, where he sat as member for Sheffield from 1832-1837, he was a strong advocate of social reform . He was a most voluminous writer . He had travelled much in
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Europe,
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America and the East, and wrote a
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great number of useful books of travel . In 1851 the value of these and of his other
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literary
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work was recognized by the grant of a
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civil list pension of 200 a year . At the time of his
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death in
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London, on the 3oth of
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June 1855, Buckingham was at work on his autobiography, two volumes of the intended four being completed and published (1855) . His youngest son, Leicester
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Silk Buckingham (1825-1867), achieved no little popularity as a playwright, several of his
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free adaptations of French comedies being produced in London between 186o and 1867 .

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