author
E. S. Lang (Ernest Segar Lang) Buckland
d. 1916
A Unitarian minister as well as a writer, he is remembered for a compact life of Oliver Goldsmith that brought literary history to general readers. His published work appears to have been modest in scale, but it shows a clear interest in biography, religion, and accessible reading.
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Oliver Goldsmith
by E. S. Lang (Ernest Segar Lang) Buckland
About the author
Ernest Segar Lang Buckland, who wrote as E. S. Lang Buckland, was an English Unitarian minister and author. The clearest details available online identify him as a minister associated with Cambridge, later serving at Christ Church, Nottingham, and Ilkeston, and record that he died in Nottingham on January 16, 1916, aged 49.
As a writer, he is best known today for Oliver Goldsmith (1909), a short biography published by George Bell & Sons in Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers. Project Gutenberg lists him under the fuller form of his name, Buckland, E. S. Lang (Ernest Segar Lang), -1916, which helps connect the pen name with the man.
Some catalog listings also credit him as editor of Friendly Words, suggesting that his work ranged beyond literary biography into religious or devotional publishing. I wasn't able to confirm many personal details beyond his ministry, authorship, and date of death, so this portrait of his life remains necessarily brief.