Charles Burton Buckley

Charles Burton Buckley (30 January 1844 — 22 May 1922) was a prominent historian, businessman and lawyer in Singapore.

He also served as an assistant to Thomas Braddell, the Attorney-General of the British Colony of Singapore.

In 1884, he acquired and revived The Singapore Free Press, a weekly newspaper that ceased publication in 1869.

In the review, Gibson-Hill wrote: "There is no doubt that Buckley was not the right man to have tackled the compilation of the Anecdotal History in natural capacity or training.

However, he wrote that much of the book's contents, if "more carefully handled", would be "of value, as Buckley intended that it should be, as an account of the early years of Singapore.

Following his death, a portrait of him was commissioned and hung in the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall.