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Christopher Richard Sandford Buckle CBE better known as Richard Buckle (6 August 1916 – 12 October 2001) was a lifelong devotee of ballet and a well-known ballet critic. He founded the magazine Ballet in 1939 and revived it after the war (during which he served with the Scots Guards being mentioned in despatches in 1944 during the Italy campaign). Between 1948 and 1955 he was ballet critic for The Observer.