Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Dan dan siyasa Edward Pery Buckley, an haife shi a watan Oktoba 1829 a gidan gidan New Hall a Bodenham, Wiltshire. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Eton. Buckley ya buga wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na farko don Marylebone Cricket Club a lokuta biyu, yana wasa da Jami'ar Cambridge a lokuta biyu a Fenner's da Lord's a cikin 1851 da 1852, kodayake ba tare da nasara ba kamar yadda ya zira kwallaye 9 kawai a cikin wasanninsa biyu. Ya taka leda tare da dan uwansa, Alfred, a duka wasanni biyu. Buckley ya yi aiki a rundunar sojojin Birtaniya a lokacin yakin Crimean, ya sayi mukamin Laftanar da Kyaftin a Royal Scots Fusiliers a watan Oktoba 1853. Ya ji rauni sosai a yakin Alma
a watan Satumbar 1854, amma daga baya ya koma ga rundunarsa. An kashe Buckley a cikin aiki a watan Satumba na gaba yayin da yake sanya masu tsaro a cikin rami a Siege na Sevastopol.