Alice Buckton

Alice Buckton
Alice Buckton at the first Universal Races Congress in 1911
Born
Alice Mary Buckton

(1867-03-09)9 March 1867
Died10 December 1944(1944-12-10) (aged 77)
Occupations
  • Writer
  • educator
Known forFounder of the Chalice Well Trust
MovementFroebelism
PartnerAnnet Schepel (died 1931)
Parents
RelativesWilliam Odling (maternal uncle)

Alice Mary Buckton (9 March 1867 – 10 December 1944) was an English educator, poet, community playwright, feminist, Celtic revivalist and mystic.

In 1899 Buckton established a Froebelian educational institution, Sesame House, in London. Her mystery play Eager Heart, first performed in 1903, was the first of several pageant plays written or stage-managed by Buckton. A convert to the Baháʼí Faith, she recited an ode to open the 1911 First Universal Races Congress. After buying the Chalice Well in Glastonbury, she established it as a hostel in Glastonbury, helping to establish Glastonbury as a site of pilgrimage.