George
Byam
Benvenuto
Mathew (1807–1865)
George
Byam
Benvenuto
Buckley Mathew (1865–1887)
1807–87
Army officer, politician, and diplomatist. Retired from the army in 1841 as a captain in the Grenadier Guards. MP for Athlone, 1835; Shaftesbury, 1838–41. Diplomat mostly in the Americas: minister to Brazil, 1867–79. Substituted Benvenuto for his second given name of Byam, 1835. Added Buckley to his surname in 1865 on inheriting the property of his uncle, Abednego Buckley (d. 1837). Knighted 1879.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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