BUCK, John (1703-45), of Bideford, Devon.

Buck’s father, a considerable tobacco merchant in Bideford, trading with Virginia and Maryland, where he owned considerable plantations, was a justice of the peace from 1717 until his death in 1743.J. Watkins, Hist. Bideford (1792), pp. 66, 87; Archives of Maryland, xxv. 595; William and Mary Quarterly (ser. 3), xvi. 49. Himself also a tobacco merchant and a shipowner,PCC 131 Seymer. Buck was returned for Taunton as an opposition Whig in 1741, voting against the Administration on the election of the chairman of the committee of elections in that year and against the Hanoverians in 1742. Absent from the division on the Hanoverians in 1744, he died 3 Apr. 1745.