Marston Clarke Buszard
Marston Clarke Buszard
Q.C. (13 July 1837 – 11 September 1921)[1] was an English barrister and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons
from 1880 to 1885.
Buszard was born in
Queen's Counsel in 1877 and a Bencher of his Inn in 1880.[3]
Buszard was leader of the Midland Circuit for 31 years and was leading counsel to the Post Office on the Midland Circuit.
At the
Liberal Unionist Party in Rugby. Without a Conservative candidate, the election was a two-way contest between Buszard and the sitting Liberal MP Henry Peyton Cobb, and Cobb held the seat with a majority of 6.4% over Buszard.[6]
Buszard was
Recorder of Derby from 1890 to 1899 and of Leicester in 1899. He was Deputy Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. It was noted that he was "A noted advocate with an unfailing gift for rhythmic language. As administrator of the Criminal Law was opposed to 'sickly humanitarianism and sentimentalism.'"[2]
Buszard married Louisa Threlfall in 1864, second daughter of John Mayor Threlfall of Manchester in 1864. Louisa died in 1895 and Buszard married Annie Violet Whitwell in 1898.
References
- ^ a b "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "S", part 4". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Archived from the original on 25 June 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Buszard, Marston Clarke (BSST856MC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Debrett's House of Commons 1881
- ^ ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
- ^ Craig, op. cit., page 372
- ^ Craig, op. cit., page 409