Buckland, Augustus Robert

BUCKLAND, AUGUSTUS ROBERT: Secretary of the Religious Tract Society; b. at Newport (20 m. n.w. of Bristol), Monmouthshire, Apr. 18, 1857. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A., 1881), and was ordained to the priesthood of the Church of England in 1881. He was curate of Spitalfields, London, in 1880–84. In 1887 he became editor of the Record and has since engaged largely in journalistic work. He has also been morning preacher in the Foundling Hospital, London, since 1890, and was chosen secretary of the Religious Tract Society in 1902. He has written: Strayed East (London, 1889); The Patience of Two (1894); The Heroic in Missions (1894); John Horden, Missionary Bishop (1894); Women in the Mission Field (1895); The Confessional in the English Church (1900); and The Missionary Speaker's Manual (1901; in collaboration with J. D. Mullins). In addition, he has edited many works for the Religious Tract Society, notably its Devotional Commentary.