The History of Wandsworth Common

John Charles Buckmaster

(1819–1908)

Educator, orator, and campaigner for the preservation of Wandsworth Common

• Mary Tasker, M.A. Thesis.

Biographical accounts

• Biography — Roger Logan
• Life and works — Bill Palmer (Curtin University, 2015)
• Mary Tasker's MEd thesis on Buckmaster (University of Bath, 1974)
• Frank Foden on Buckmaster
• Ken Howe on John Buckmaster (2021)

Autobiography: A Village Politician

• Full autobiography text
• Introduction by A. J. Mundella
• Chapter 15

Themes and episodes

• The Anti-Corn Law League
• Parkhurst Prison
• Buckmaster as vestryman
• Early Wandsworth Common campaign
• What is a common?
• The 1871 Act
• Buckmaster Road
• Coda

Legal matters

• Buckmaster v. Reynolds my notes
• Buckmaster v. Reynolds (Claude summary, 9 May 2026))
• Rethinking the Reynolds family tree (Claude notes, 9 May 2026))
• Buckmaster v. Reynolds appeal 1862
• T.A.R.Reynolds - all articles in date order
• Buckmaster v. Corsellis
• Law and loss

The Drouet affair

• Buckmaster visits Drouet
• A Village Politician, pp. 248–262 (Drouet)
• Drouet indictment for murder, Old Bailey, 9 April 1849

Family

• Family tree
• Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster
• Martin Buckmaster — autobiography (1948)
• Pseudonyms and name changes

Associated people and places

• Costeker and Clarke
• Sullings
• Wrigsby
• Buckmaster makes up with Spencer
• Roger Logan on John Buckmaster
• Vestry minutes — Roger Logan
• Robert Smith Surtees [who he?]
• Mr [Unknown forename] Dayman, local magistrate
• Mr Paynter, local magistrate
• Mr Ingham, local Battersea magistrate,/li>

Reference

• Bibliography
• Research notes