BUCKLE, GEORGE EARLE British man of letters, was born at Twerton, near Bath, and educated at Winchester and New college, Oxford. From 1877 to 1885 he was a fellow of All Souls college. In 1880 he joined the editorial staff of The Times, London; four years later, while still under 3o, he succeeded Thomas Chenery as its editor. This position he occupied for more than 28 years, retiring in Aug. 1912. When Mr. Mony penny, the biographer originally entrusted with the official Life of Disraeli, died in 1912, leaving his task unfinished, Mr. Buckle took over the work of completing it ; under his authorship vols. 3, 4, 5 and 6 were published between 1914 and 192o. Buckle also edited The Letters of Queen Victoria, second and third series.