Buckingham, James Silk, traveller and journalist, born in Falmouth; conducted a journal in Calcutta, and gave offence to the East India Company by his outspokenness; had to return to England, where his cause was warmly taken up; by his writings and speeches paved the way for the abolition of the Company's charter (1784-1855).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of * Buckinghamshire