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Surname	Buckley	Alternative Surname
First Name	G H	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1828-32
Year of Death
Biographical Details	A Cork artist of some talent who died young. He exhibited a ‘Model of a Gothic Chapel’ at the Cork Mechanics Institute in 1828, then sent a ‘Design for a Cathedral Church and College attached - Gothic style’ and a ‘Model of the Principal Front for a Palace’ to the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1832. He is responsible for a number of monuments in the cemetery at Cork, where he is himself buried. Literary References: Strickland 1, 1913, 124; Stewart I, 1985, 96