Buckingham, James Silk
(male)
08/25/1786 - 06/30/1855
English
Author, journalist, and traveller; sailor in the Atlantic and Mediterranean; traveled in Egypt and Persia; established Calcutta Journal and other newspapers; wrote Travels in Assyria, Media and Persia (1829); initial editor of the Athenaeum; member of parliament. See Boase I: 461, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)