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| Claude Henry Mason Buckle R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Second son of Admiral Matthew Buckle (1770-1855) | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 13 December 1803 | Born (Blackheath, Kent) | ||
| 1847 | Married Harriet Margaret, daughter of Thomas Deane Shute of Bramshaw, Hampshire | ||
| 5 July 1855 | C.B. (Companion of the Garter) | ||
| 29 May 1875 | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) | ||
| 10 March 1894 | Died (London) | ||
| Date | Rank | ||
| August 1817 | Entered Royal Naval College | ||
| 17 April 1827 | Lieutenant | ||
| 4 May 1836 | Commander | ||
| 6 November 1845 | Captain | ||
| 14 November 1863 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 1 April 1870 | Retired Vice-Admiral | ||
| 22 January 1877 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| 7 December 1841 | November 1845 | Commander in Growler, South America and west coast of Africa (in February 1845 participated in Commodore William Jones's destruction of several barracoons at Dombocorro and elsewhere) | |
| 1 January 1849 | 1850 | Captain in Centaur, flagship of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, west coast of Africa (until Buckle was invalided) | |
| 11 December 1852 | Captain in Valorous, Mediterrnaean, then (1854) the Baltic and (1855) the Black Sea during the Russian War | ||
| 12 December 1857 | 9 February 1863 | Superintendent of Royal William Victualling Yard, Deptford | |
| November 1867 | 1870 | Commander-in-chief, Queenstown (flag in Mersey) | |
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