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Buckland was born at Axminster in Devon. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1813 he was appointed reader in mineralogy in succession to John Kidd, and in 1819 a readership in geology was founded with Buckland being the first holder of the new appointment. In 1818 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1824 and again in 1840 he was chosen president of the Geological Society of London.

In 1832 he presided over the second meeting of the British Association, which was then held at Oxford. In 1845 he was appointed by Sir Robert Peel to the vacant deanery of WestminsterWestminster is the name of a city that covers much of central London, located to the west of the ancient City of London, and which has been the principal seat of government in England for more than nine hundred years. Both cities, and much of the surround, and was soon after inducted to the living of Islip , near Oxford, a preferment attached to the deanery. In 1847 he was appointed a trustee in the British MuseumThe British Museum is one of the world's greatest and most famous museums. It was established in 1753 by Sir Hans Sloane, a physician and scientist who collected lots of literature and art, on its present site at Montague House in London, United Kingdom,; and in 1848 he was awarded the Wollaston MedalThe Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of palladium, a metal discovered b by the Geological Society of London.

Buckland's reputation is based on his published scientific works. His great work was Relics of the Deluge (1823), in which he supplemented his former observations on the remains of extinct animals discovered in the cavern of Kirkdale in YorkshireThis article is about the English county. For other uses, see Yorkshire (disambiguation). traditional county. White Yorkshire rose. Yorkshire is the largest traditional county of England, covering some 6,000 sq. 15,000 km²) with a population of some five, and expounded his views as to the bearing of these and similar cases on the Biblical account of the DelugeNoah Edward Hicks (1780 1849), showing animals boarding Noah's Ark, two of every kind. In the Old Testament Book of Genesis chapters 6-9 , Noah's ark was the boat that God commanded Noah to build to keep him, his family and a core breeding stock of the wo.

Buckland's belief in catastrophismCatastrophism is the theory that Earth has been affected by sudden, short-lived, violent events that were sometimes worldwide in scope. The Biblical story of the Great Flood is a prime example of catastrophism. Starting in the late 18th century, scientist led him to be an early proponent of the Glacial theory propounded by Louis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28 1807- December 14 1873) was a Swiss-American zoologist and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. Early life and education Louis Agassiz w, and he worked hard to find evidence of former glaciation in Britain.