Augustus Buckland

He was born at Newport in Monmouthshire and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A., 1881), and was ordained to the priesthood of the Church of England in 1881.

In 1887 he became editor of the Record and subsequently engaged largely in journalistic work.

He became morning preacher in the Foundling Hospital, London in 1890, and was secretary of the Religious Tract Society from 1902 to 1917.

[2] He wrote: Strayed East (London, 1889); The Patience of Two (1894); The Heroic in Missions (1894); John Horden, Missionary Bishop : a life on the shores of Hudson's Bay (1894); Women in the Mission Field (1895); The Confessional in the English Church (1900); The Missionary Speaker's Manual (1901, in collaboration with J. D. Mullins); Editor of Universal Bible Dictionary (1914); John Bunyan, The Man and his Work (1928); and George Anthony King.

In addition, he edited many works for the Religious Tract Society, notably its Devotional Commentary.