Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill, KC British lawyer and colonial judge (and son of Thomas Townsend Bucknill).
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Sir Thomas Townsend Bucknill MP QC was an English, Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor (and son of John Charles Bucknill).
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Sir John Charles Bucknill, English psychiatrist and mental health reformer.
Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill, British lawyer and colonial judge (and grandson of John Charles Bucknill)
Among the notable cases tried before Bucknill was that in 1912 of poisoner Frederick Seddon, who, on being found guilty of murder appealed directly to Bucknill as a brother Mason and in the name of 'The Great Architect Of The Universe' to overturn the jury’s verdict.
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Bucknill was born at Exminster in 1845, the second son of Sir John Charles Bucknill FRS, a famous mental health specialist who was knighted in 1894 in recognition of his services as one of the founders of the Volunteer Movement.