Nathaniel Buckley was a British

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 landowner, cotton mill

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 owner and Liberal Party

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 politician.
At the 1868 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1868

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 he was Liberal candidate for the constituency of Stalybridge

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, but was defeated by his Conservative

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 opponent, James Sidebottom

James Sidebottom

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. Sidebottom died in February 1871 causing a by-election. Initially the local Liberal Party selected the Honourable Edward Lyuth Stanley

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 as their candidate, but following a number of delegations of "working men", Buckley was chosen. The bi-election was held on February 28, and Buckley won the seat by 208 votes.

By the 1870s Buckley was a millionaire and in 1873 he purchased the Galtee estate of the Earl of Kingston

Earl of Kingston

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, near Mitchelstown

Mitchelstown

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, County Cork

County Cork

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, Ireland

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. Following a revaluation, he issued rent demands to his new tenants of between fifty and five hundred percent. This led to a great deal of agrarian unrest, evictions and an attempted assassination of Buckley's land agent. His actions also demonstrated weaknesses in the Irish Land Acts

Irish Land Acts

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 which were consequently amended.

Buckley was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire

Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire

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 in 1867.

At the 1874 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1874

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 Buckley was defeated by the Conservative candidate, Thomas Harrop Sidebottom

Tom Harrop Sidebottom

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. He did not return to parliament.

At the time of his death, aged 71, in 1892 he had residences at Alderdale Lodge, Droylsden

Droylsden

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, Lancashire

Lancashire

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 and Galtee Castle

Galtee Castle

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, County Cork.

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