Mary Ann Letitia Buckland née Ricketts (1827–1908) was born at Burdwan in Bengal, the daughter of Sir Henry Ricketts, an East India Company officer. The Ricketts family were associated with the Winchester area in Hampshire, and through marriage to the Mildmay family, Shawford House at Twyford. They also had a deep connection with Bengal in British India, with family members in administrative positions around Chittagong, Dhaka and Calcutta. In 1845 Mary Ann Ricketts married Charles Thomas Buckland (1824–1894), a high-ranking official of the Bengal Civil service at Chittagong.
