Son of Reverend N. S. Bucking­ham, of Vir­gin­ia, and Mar­ga­ret Mor­ris Dun­can, of Penn­syl­van­ia, John was ed­u­cat­ed in Bos­ton, Lon­don and Par­is. He stu­died music un­der Whit­ing (or­gan), Em­ery (har­mo­ny), Park­er (pi­a­no), John K. Paine (coun­ter­point, com­po­si­tion), I. Phil­ipp, Par­is (piano), R. R. Ter­ry, and E. D’Evry, London (plain song) . He grad­u­at­ed from the Bos­ton Un­i­ver­si­ty Col­lege of Mu­sic in 1879. He be­gan teach­ing at the New Eng­land Con­ser­va­to­ry in 1877, was a mem­ber of its fa­cul­ty un­til June, 1896, then taught pri­vate­ly in Bos­ton. He played the or­gan at Mon­u­ment Square Church, Charles­town, Mass­a­chu­setts (1876-81); Immanuel Congregational Church, Roxbury, Massachusetts (1881-94); St. Mi­chael’s Ro­man Cath­o­lic Church, Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Isl­and (1897-1900); and at St. Mark’s Meth­o­dist Epis­co­pal Church, Brook­line, Mass­a­chu­setts (1900-?).

• Benjamin, pp. 28-9

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