George Buck
Sir George Buck (or Buc) (1560–1622) was an antiquarian who served as Master of the Revels to King James I of England.
Buck was baptised on 1 October 1560 in Holy Trinity, Ely, Cambridgeshire. He was the eldest son and probably second of the four children of Robert Buck (d. January 1580) and Elizabeth Nunn, née Petterill, of Brandon Ferry, Suffolk.
George Buck was educated at the Middle Temple, and served on the successful Cádiz expedition of 1596 under Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. He had some connection with the powerful William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
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