James Buckman
| Prof. James Buckman FLS, FGS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1818 | ||||||||
| Died | 1884 | ||||||||
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Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester [1863] Bradford Abbas, near Sherborne, Dorset [1864] | ||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||
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Professor James Buckman FLS, FGS. (1818-1884). Buckman was a pharmaceutical chemist, college professor, museum curator, botanist, geologist, archaeologist, author, and farmer. Together with his son S.S.Buckman they made a team that contributed to geology in the Cotswold area over a time span of nearly 100 years.
Buckman lived in Cheltenham, Birmingham and Cirencester before retiring to farm in Dorset. He was a trained pharmaceutical chemist who practised in Cheltenham, before moving to Birmingham, where he was appointed Secretary of the Birmingham Philosophical Society and became Curator of their museum(1842-47). In 1848 he moved to Cirencester to take up the position of Professor of Geology and Botany at the Royal Agricultural College, and he founded and became Curator of the Cirencester Museum.
He amassed a large collection of Great Oolite fossils from Gloucestershire but most were destroyed during the occupation of the premises by the War Office during 1914-18. He died on the 24th November 1885. His portrait was painted by Kate the daughter of Edwin Witchell and can be found in S.S.Buckmans "Type Ammonites". His remaining collections are in the Natural History Museum, London; B.G.S. Keyworth; Manchester Museum; and the Castle Museum, Nottingham.
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Geological Chart to the Oolitic Strata of the Cotswold Hills
