Editing George Buck (section)

==Early life and career==
Buck was baptised on 1 October 1560 in [[Ely Cathedral|Holy Trinity]], [[Ely, Cambridgeshire]]. He was the eldest son and probably second of the four children of Elizabeth Nunn, ''née'' Petterill, of [[Brandon, Suffolk|Brandon Ferry, Suffolk]], and Robert Buck (d. 1580), a church official.<ref name=ODNB>Kincaid, Arthur. [https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3821 "Buck (Buc), Sir George (bap. 1560, d. 1622)"]. ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edn., May 2008, Retrieved 23 January 2012 {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>Eccles, pp. 418–19</ref> His great-grandfather, Sir John Buck, was executed after supporting [[Richard III of England|Richard III]] at the [[Battle of Bosworth Field]].<ref>Kincaid, Introduction, pp. xii–xiii, in Buck, ''History'' (1979)</ref>

Buck was educated by his half-sister's husband, Henry Blaxton, privately and then at Blaxton's school in [[Chichester]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Blaxton |url=http://www.sussexpeople.co.uk/henry-blaxton/ |website=Sussex People |access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref> Buck attended [[Cambridge University]], and by 1580 he had undertaken legal studies in London, finishing at the [[Middle Temple]] in 1585.<ref>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 Library|Bodleian]], MS Eng. misc. b. 106, f. 179</ref> He carried dispatches for the government from France in 1587<ref>Pipe Rolls, E 351/542, f. 94v, ''cited'' in Eccles, p. 424</ref> and served under his patron the Lord Admiral, [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham|Charles Howard of Effingham]], against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and on the successful [[Capture of Cadiz|Cadiz expedition of 1596]] led by [[Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex]], also acting as emissary from its commanders to [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]].<ref>Eccles, pp. 428–30</ref> He was appointed [[Esquire of the Body]] in 1588 and was the Member of Parliament for [[Gatton (UK Parliament constituency)|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.<ref name=ODNB/><ref>Eccles, pp. 435–37</ref>