Philip Buckley

In the novel Peril at End House, Philip Buckley was the son of Nicholas Buckley. He was married to Amy and was the father of Gerald and Nick. According to Nick, her father had died while she was quite young. He had fought in World War I and had been invalidated have presumably after being wounded. He apparently did not get on with his father Gerald and so tended to leave Nick with her grandfather and "go roaming the world on his own account." He caught pneumonia and died in 1919. At some point in his life, he had been in Australia, a fact that would some relevance to events towards the end of the book.