John Alexander Strachey Bucknill

Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill KC (14 September 1873 – 6 October 1926) was a British lawyer and Judge.

He served as Attorney General of Hong Kong, Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements and Puisne Judge in Patna, India.

[1] His younger half-brother was Sir Alfred Townsend Bucknill (1880–1963), who became a High Court Judge in England and in 1945 was appointed a Privy Councillor.

[2] In 1902, just after the Boer War, Bucknill was appointed Commissioner of Patents in the newly established Transvaal Colony and also served on the legislature.

Bucknill, in a ceremony to farewell him in the Singapore Supreme Court, said that he was sorry to go, but "the pay and possibilities in India are so much greater than anything which obtains in Colonial service that it is impracticable for me, with my family responsibilities, to refuse the new position offered to me.