Denys Buckley

Sir Denys Burton Buckley, MBE (6 February 1906 – 13 September 1998) was an English barrister and judge, rising to become a Lord Justice of Appeal.

Personal life

Denys Burton Buckley was born in Kensington, the son of Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury and Bertha Margaretta Jones. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford. He married Gwendolen Jane Armstrong-Jones (1905–1985), daughter of Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones and aunt of the Earl of Snowdon, on 23 July 1932. They had three daughters. his arms were placed in the Hall in 1960, and he served as Treasurer in 1969. He was appointed as a High Court Judge in 1960 in the Chancery Division, and received the customary knighthood. From 1962 to 1970 he served in the Restrictive Practices Court, and was appointed President in 1968. In 1970 he was elevated to the Court of Appeal and was appointed a Privy Councillor. He served as a member of the Law Reform Committee from 1963 to 1973.