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

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