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Sir George Buck (or Buc) (c. 1560 – October 1622) was an English antiquarian, historian, scholar and author, who served as a Member of Parliament, government envoy to Queen Elizabeth I and Master of the Revels to King James I of England. He served in the war against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and on the Cadiz expedition of 1596. He was appointed Esquire of the Body in 1588 and a Member of Parliament for Gatton, Surrey in the 1590s, also acting at times as an envoy for Queen Elizabeth. In 1603, on the accession to the throne of King James I, Buck was made a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and knighted. In 1606, he began to license plays for publication. In 1610, he became Master of the Revels, responsible for licensing and supervising plays in Britain, including Shakespeare's later plays, and censoring them with respect to the depiction of religion and politics. Buck's writings include a verse work, ''Daphnis Polystephanos: An Eclog....'' (1605), an historical-pastoral poem in celebration of James I's royal ancestors. His treatise "The Third Vniversite of England" (1615) describes the educational facilities in London. His major prose work was ''The History of King Richard the Third'', which he left in rough draft at his death. His great-nephew extensively altered it and finally published it in 1646 as his own work. Buck defended King Richard III, examining critically the accusations against him. He also discovered and introduced important new historical sources, especially the Croyland Chronicle and the Titulus Regius, which justified Richard's accession to the crown. ==Early life and career== 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 Elizabeth Nunn, ''née'' Petterill, of Brandon Ferry, Suffolk and Robert Buck (d. 1580), a church official.〔Kincaid, Arthur. ("Buck (Buc), Sir George (bap. 1560, d. 1622)" ). ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edn., May 2008, accessed 23 January 2012 〕〔Eccles, pp. 418–19〕 His great-grandfather, Sir John Buck, was executed after supporting Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field.〔Kincaid, Introduction, pp. xii-xiii, in Buck, ''History'' (1979)〕 Buck was educated by his half-sister's husband, Henry Blaxton, privately and then at Blaxton's school in Chichester. Buck attended Cambridge University, and by 1580 he had undertaken legal studies in London, finishing at the Middle Temple in 1585.〔Eccles, pp. 419–421; Kincaid, Introduction, pp. xxvii and xxx, in Buck, ''History'' (1979). As to his attendance at Cambridge, see "The Third Vniversite of England", sig. Nnnn 2–4, confirmed by manuscript of Sir George Buck, ''A Commentary Vpon ... Liber Domus DEI'', Oxford, Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. b. 106, f. 179〕 He carried dispatches for the government from France in 1587〔Pipe Rolls, E 351/542, f. 94v, ''cited'' in Eccles, p. 424〕 and served under his patron the Lord Admiral, Charles Howard of Effingham, against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and on the successful Cadiz expedition of 1596 led by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, also acting as emissary from its commanders to Queen Elizabeth.〔Eccles, pp. 428–30〕 He was appointed Esquire of the Body in 1588 and was the Member of Parliament for Gatton, Surrey in the parliaments of 1593 and 1597. He continued to act as an envoy for the queen afterwards, serving on diplomatic missions to Flanders in 1601 and Spain in 1605.〔Eccles, pp. 435–37〕〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Buck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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