Buckley, James (2)

an English Congregational minister, was born at Mossley, Lancashire, January 27, 1796. He was brought up in the Church of England. In 1819 he was converted at the Independent Chapel in Cricketslane, Ashton-under- Lyne, became a Sundayschool teacher, and began preaching at mission stations in the neighboring villages. In 1821 he entered Idle Academy, Yorkshire, and in 1825 was ordained pastor at Thirsk, in the North Riding. He accepted a. call to Peiniston, in the West Riding, in 1837, and in 1851 removed to Horbury, near Wakefield. Mr. Buckley's last charge was at Stockport, which he accepted in 1854. Here he died, March 18, 1873. His character was marked by conscientiousness and intensity. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1874, page 315.