Buckleys Road in the suburb of Linwood, Christchurch

Buckleys Road – Named after George Buckley (1830- 1895). Buckley was a member of the Legislative Council 1871-1884 and also a partner in Dalgety & Co. He married Alexandrina McLean (1831?-1902). Buckley’s Road is first mentioned in the Star in 1877 in a report of a meeting of the Heathcote Road Board. Buckleys Road first appears in street directories in 1906. Library acknowledged Richard Greenaway.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Probably not a lot that I can add. I couldn’t find out where George is buried but his wife is buried at the Addington cemetery with the rest of the McLean family. It is the largest monument in this cemetery and every now and again an engineer will look at the monument to see if it can be fixed.
With a bit more research I managed to get confusing information about George Buckley’s death. Ancestry website have him buried in Barbadoes St cemetery. There is a wikipedia page for George and he was a partner in a Lyttelton business Dalgety, Buckley and Co. In the late 1880s he was president of the BNZ and he went to Melbourne after he resigned from the bank. The Wikipedia page has him dying in Melbourne where he is buried.

This street runs from Bromley Park to Linwood Ave. Eastgate Mall is the Linwood Ave end of the street. The houses are a mixture of a few newer places but most are older and rundown. The street has obviously been widened at some stage as many of the older houses had fences right up to the front windows. Open your windows are you would be practically hitting the fence.

After searching Papers Past there was a death notice for George Buckley and he died 19th November 1895 in Brighton, Melbourne and he was the eldest son of late Captain W H Buckley of the 82 Regiment. In 1888 he was on the Committee of Investigation for BNZ and in December 1889 there was a publication of a statement which would possibly lead to a panic amongst the depositors. He was in London in 1889.