Herbert Tudor Buckland was born in Barmouth, Marionethshire, Wales on 20 November 1869. He abandoned his original intention of becoming a mechanical engineer, and instead decided to train as an architect. He was articled to Henry Clere (1833-1898), an architect and quantity surveyor, in Birmingham, from 1886 to 1890. He also attended Birmingham Municipal School of Art. He then worked as an assistant to John Jones Bateman (1817-1903) and Charles Edward Bateman (1863-1947) of Bateman & Bateman from 1891 to 1893.
Buckland commenced practice as an architect in Birmingham in 1893 and was in partnership with Henry Clere from 1895 to 1897. In c.1898 Buckland formed a short-lived partnership with Charles Edward Bateman as H.T. Buckland & C.E. Bateman. The partnership was appears to have been dissolved in 1899 as that year he formed a new partnership with Edward Hayward-Farmer (1871-1917) as Buckland & Farmer [also known as H.T. Buckland & E. Haywood-Farmer and as H.T. Buckland & E. Haywood Farmer] in Birmingham.
Frank Quentery Farmer (1878-1955) seems also to have been a partner in the practice from c.1899 to c.1920 although his name did not appear in the title of the firm. In 1914 William Haywood (1877-1957) joined the practice and following the death of Haywood-Farmer in 1917 the practice was renamed Buckland & Haywood.
In 1901 Buckland was appointed architect to the City of Birmingham Education Committee. He also taught architectural design at Birmingham School of Art. He was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1911 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1927. He died in Birmingham, Warwickshire on 18 January 1951.
Works by Buckland & Farmer included a shop and four houses, Bracebridge Street, Birmingham for J. White Elkington (1896); The Navigation Inn public house, Bromford, Erdington, for Ind Coope & Co. (1898); Two shops and four houses, Cherrywood Road, Bordesley Heath, Birmingham for O. Larkin Smith (1898); Handsworth New Road Council School, Handsworth, Birmimgham (1900); George Dixon Council Secondary Schools, City Road, Birmingham and George Dixon Council School, City Road, Birmingham (1904); Manual Training Centre for Chequers Walk Board School, Birmingham (1906); Village for mainenance workers, including new school, for Birmingham Corporation, Elan Valley, Wales (1906-09); Women's Hotel, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham (1907); Mission rooms for Rev. R. W. Stephenson, St. Hilda's, Warley, Sandwell (1907); Curator's House for the Edgbaston Assembly Rooms, Hagley Road, Edgbaston (1908); Club house for Harborne Golf Club, Harborne Land, Birmingham (1909); Barnsley High School, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire (1909); Prince Henry's High School, Victoria Avenue, Evesham, Worcestershire (1909); Arthur Charles Street Council School, Nechells, Birmingham (1910); Sladefield Road Council School and caretaker's house, Ward End, Birmingham (1910); Cherrywood Road Council School, Bordesley Green, Birmingham (1911); St. Benedict Road Council School, Small Heath, Birmingham (1911); Club for Indoor Sports Ltd., Suffolk Street, Birmingham (1911); Factory for J. Walker & Sons, Oxford Street, Birmingham (1911); Municipal offices for the City of Coventry, Earl Street, Coventry, Warwickshire (1911); Houses at Gidea Park, Romford Garden Suburb, Essex (1911); Shop for the Electric Ordnance & Co., Cheston Road, Birmingham (1913); Pavilion for Harborne Golf Club, Harborn Lane, Birmingham (1914); St. Hugh's College, St. Margaret's Road, Oxford (1914-16); Dining hall, stables, garage, cycle house and drainage for Kynoch Ltd., Wellhead Lane, Birmingham (1915); Premises for H. Taylor, Argyle Street, Acock's Green, Birmingham (1916).
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See also: List of Architectral Works of Buckland and Farmer in Worsfold, Mary. ‘Buckland and Farmer’ pp. 519-524 [Bibliography below]
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