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===[[name::Richard]] [[name::BUCKENHAM]]   d.[[date of death::1628]]===

====Biographical Note====
Born in [[place of birth::Ipswich]], second son of [[family::William Buckenham]], a wealthy merchant and corporation office holder there.  BA [[education::Pembroke Hall, Cambridge]] 1587, [[occupation::fellow]] ca.1588, MA 1591, BD 1599, DD 1615.  [[occupation::rector|Rector]] of [[location::Great Bromley, Essex]] 1600-12, [[occupation::prebendary]] of [[organisations::Chichester Cathedral|Chichester]] 1609, [[occupation::vicar]] of [[location::Eartham, Sussex]] 1612, [[occupation::archdeacon]] of [[location::Lewes]] 1612.

====Books==== 
Buckenham [[bequest::bequeathed]] all his books and notebooks to his [[beneficiary::son]] [[family::Richard Buckenham|Richard]] (BA Pembroke Hall, Cambridge]], 1629, vicar of Eartham 1663); he noted in his will that two catalogues of the collection had been made, one kept by him and one [[bequest::given]] to [[family::Richard Buckenham|Richard]].  In a codicil, he further directed that his wife as executrix should deliver the books and the catalogue to his son in law [[family::Francis Ringstead]], as trustee for the younger Richard, “by opening the study doors and giving him possession of the said books with the key of the said door”.  Should Richard die before the age of 21, the books would pass to [[family::Francis Ringstead|Ringstead]], who was also instructed to sell books “as shall be most vendible” if Richard was short of money during his time at Cambridge.

Buckenham was the agent who arranged for the [[bequest::gift]] of ca.100 medieval [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] to [[beneficiary::Pembroke Hall, Cambridge|Pembroke]] in [[date of bequest::1599]].  These books, originally from the Abbey of [[organisations::Bury St Edmunds Abbey|Bury St Edmunds]], were in the collection of [[associates::William Smart]] of Ipswich (d.1599), and were apparently acquired by [[associates::the Smart family]] soon after the dissolution.  [[associates::William Smart|Smart]] [[bequest::bequeathed]] his books to his [[beneficiary::Ipswich|native town]], to become the basis of [[organisations::Ipswich Town Library]], but these [[format::manuscript|manuscripts]] were given to Pembroke shortly before Smart died.  Buckenham, who presumably persuaded Smart that a Cambridge college would prove a better custodian, is credited in contemporary sources as having organised this, together with a property endowment.

====Characteristic Markings==== 
None of Buckenham’s books have been identified.

====Sources====
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*Attwater, A. ''A short history of Pembroke College'', 1936, 37.
*Blatchly, J. ''The Town Library of Ipswich'', 1989, 2-4. 
*Venn, J. & J. A. ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. Cambridge, 1922.
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