John Buckingham House John Buckingham House The John Buckingham House is a historic house at 33–35 Waban Street in the Newton Corner village of Newton, Massachusetts. Built about 1864, it is a good local example of Second Empire architecture, typical of built at that time for upper middle class commuters to Boston. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The John Buckingham House stands in a densely built residential area northwest of the center of Newton Corner, on the north side of Waban Street opposite Hovey Street. Its lot is fronted by a low stone retaining wall, which
1943 Buckingham by-election 1943 Buckingham by-election The Buckingham by-election of 1943 was a parliamentary by-election held in England on 4 August 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of Buckingham in Buckinghamshire. The by-election was held to fill the vacancy caused when the town's 45-year-old Conservative Party Member of Parliament Brigadier John Whiteley was killed in a plane crash in Gibraltar, along with another Conservative member, Victor Cazalet, and General Sikorksi, the leader of the Polish government-in-exile. Whiteley had held the seat since a by-election in 1937. The Conservative Party nominated as its candidate, Lionel Berry, the deputy chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Ltd