BUCKMASTER, STANLEY OWEN, Isr VISCOUNT English lawyer, educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1884 and took silk in 1902. In 1906 he successfully contested Cambridge in the Liberal interest. Defeated at the general election of 1910, he re-entered the House in 1911 as member for Keighley, and, in 1913, was appointed solicitor-general, being knighted in the same year. In May 1915 Sir Stanley Buckmaster was appointed lord chancellor, and he was raised to the peerage in the following month. Here he was energetic. receptive of new ideas and newer f ul in debate. In 1916 he went out of office with Asquith; but con tinued to sit in a judicial capacity in the Lords. He was an advo-. cate of divorce law reform. He was created viscount in BUCKNER, SIMON BOLIVAR American soldier and political leader, was born in Hart county, Kentucky, on April I, 1823. Graduating at West Point in 1844, he was assistant professor of geography, history and ethics there in He fought in the Mexican War, received the brevet of first lieutenant for gallantry at Churubusco, and later, the brevet of captain. In 1848-50 he was assistant instructor of infantry tactics at West Point, later in the recruiting service, on frontier duty, and in the subsistence department. He resigned in March, 1855. During the attempt of Governor Magoffin at the outbreak of the Civil War to keep Kentucky neutral he commanded the State guard; but in Sept., 1861, after the entry of Union forces into the state, he espoused the Confederate cause, becoming eventually lieutenant-general. He was third in command of Fort Donelson when General Grant attacked (Feb. 1862), and it fell to him to surrender the post with its large garrison and valuable supplies. He was exchanged in August of the same year, and subsequently served under General Bragg in the campaign of Chickamauga. He was governor of Kentucky in 1887-91, a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention of 189o, and in 1896 candidate of "Gold" Democrats for vice-president of the United States. He died in Munfordville (Ky.), Jan. 8, 1914.