Marston Clarke Buszard

(13 July 1837 – 11 September 1921)[1] was an English barrister and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885.

Leicestershire, the eldest son of Marston Buszard MD and his wife Sarah Catherine Clarke, eldest daughter of John Clarke of Peatling Hall who was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1820.

Buszard was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge,[2] where he was awarded BA 1st Class in Law and 12th senior optime in 1860, the Chancellor's medal for Legal Studies in 1863 and MA and LLM in 1863.

[1] At the 1885 general election, when the borough constituency of Stamford was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act and the name transferred to a new county division, Buszard stood in Rutland, where he was heavily defeated by the Conservative Party candidate,[5] and in 1886 he stood as a Liberal Unionist Party in Rugby.

Without a Conservative candidate, the election was a two-way contest between Buszard and the sitting Liberal MP Henry Peyton Cobb, and Cobb held the seat with a majority of 6.4% over Buszard.