George Bowdler Buckton (24 May 1818, London – 25 September 1905, Haslemere, Surrey) was an English chemist and entomologist who specialised in aphids.

His eldest daughter was the poet Alice Buckton and Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived nearby.

[5] He also published much work on alkyls of main-group elements including on the discovery of the anti-knock agent tetra-ethyl lead.

[1] Alfred Lord Tennyson had asked Buckton through William Allingham 'How can evolution account for the ant?'

Tennyson remembered on Buckton's death that he had "Truly a devoted, spiritual, knightly nature, with a faith as clear as the height of the pure blue heaven.