 He then tried to get into "society" by sponsoring bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux (the first black man to contend for a championship) and subsequently married Flashman's mother Lady Alicia Paget, a fictional relation of the real Marquess of Anglesey.Buckley also served as a Member of Parliament but was "sent to the knacker's yard at Reform".Beside politics, his interests were drinking, fox hunting (riding to hounds) and women.