During the last sixteen years of Queen Vietoria's reign and the whole of the reign of Edward Vil, Mr. G, E. Buckle sat in the editorial chair of "Phe Times", Mr.R.D, Blumenfeld, now retired from active editorship after a memorable career, has accorded to Buckle a prominent place among the "immortals who are responsible for journalism to-day as we see it", Buckle's appointment in 1884 fon the death of Thomas Chenery constituted a reversion to "The Times policy of " appointing young editors. "John Walter It had been 26, Barnes 92 and Delane 23, Buckle was 29, "He soon made his mark in couraging the formation of the Liberal Unionist Party under Lord Hartington (afterwards Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain. He directed the paper's strong hostility to Parnell and to the Gladstonian Home Rule Bill, although by the revelation of the fact, that the "Piggott" letter attributed by "The Times" to Parnell was a forgery, his campaign received an accidental set-back which, however, was not more than of dramatic importance for the Parnell Commission Substantiated most of the charges made by "The Times" against the Irish lender. There followed the spacious days of the late Victorian id. Edward and on retire. ment, shortly King George V came to the throne, Buckle devoted himself characteristically and with no little distinction to the biographical task of completing—-Monypenny's "Life of Disraeli" and editing the "Letters of Queen Victoria", As befitted scholar of Winchester and New College, Oxford, Buckle invested his Iabours with much literary skill and charm and, apart from the anonymity of his writings in "The Times", those books stand on the shelves in witness to his profound knowledge of affairs and gifts of political discernment.
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