Educated at St John's, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Before qualifying he served during the Franco-German War as Surgeon's Assistant in the Hessian Service of the German Army, being posted to the Alice Hospital, Darmstadt, in 1871. For his services he received the Hessian Sanitäts Kreuz for Medical Service and the Non-Combatant Medal. He then settled in practice at Welford Road, Leicester, where his family were medically well known, and was appointed Medical Officer of Health to the Leicester Combined Districts. At the time of his early death he was Physician to the Leicester Infirmary and Fever House, and Hon. Physician to the Leicester and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum. He died at Leicester on October 4th, 1887. Publications: Buck was author with Mr. George Cooper Franklin of a *Report on the Epidemic Diarrhoea* of 1875 in Leicester, 8vo, map and 3 diagrams, Leicester, 1875.