William Thorne Buckland

Who is William Thorne Buckland?

William Thorne Buckland was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Buckland arrived in New Zealand in 1841 from South Australia, and was a butcher in Auckland, then a farmer in the Waikato.

Buckland was appointed to the Auckland Executive Council of the Auckland Province in November 1856, and was again appointed from February to July 1857. He was elected to the Auckland Provincial Council for the Raglan electorate in November 1861 and served until 1869. From 1869 to 1873, he represented the Franklin electorate, and from 1873 until the abolition of the Council in October 1876, he represented the Eden electorate.

He represented two South Auckland electorates; first the Raglan electorate from 1865 to 1866, when he retired. He then represented the Franklin electorate from 1871 to 1875, when he again retired.

He died at his home in Remuera, Auckland aged 56 years after a brief illness.