William Buckley

All right.

Uh, number seven, Buckley's chance.

Buckley's.

Oh, I think we've talked about this ages ago.

Yeah, we talked about this many times.

Um, yes.

Buckley's chance means you have very little chance of being successful in this venture.

So, it's one of those ones with, I think it's got two different origins, right?

And he will come back from it changed in ways that neither world he belonged to ever quite understood.

This is the story of William Buckley.

He was born in 1780 at Martin near Macclesfield in Cheshire, England, the son of a small farmer raised by his maternal grandfather who sent him to school and apprenticed him to a bricklayer.

He joined the Cheshire militia.

He was wounded in action.

He came home.

And then, in 1802 at the Sussex Assizes, William Buckley was convicted of receiving a roll of cloth, knowing it to have been stolen.

This is worth pausing on.