William Edward Buckley (9 October 1817 – 18 March 1892) was a Church of England clergyman, an academic who taught both classical languages and Old English, and also a journalist.
In 1839 he graduated BA and in the Michaelmas term of the same year was President of the Oxford Union.
[3] In 1842 Buckley became a Fellow of Brasenose College and from 1844 to 1849 was also Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon, succeeding Henry Bristow Wilson.
[3] He was also Professor of Classics at Haileybury College until it was closed by the East India Company in January 1858.
[2] One obituary said of him "A man of many friends, he was an excellent talker, full of geniality and good stories".