Buckingham Street was of course named after Buckingham Palace in London. It was created around the turn of the 20th century, when the Municipal Commission of George Town bought back land from the estate of the Kapitan Keling Mosque, to build roads and the Carnarvon Street police station. The land on either side of Buckingham Street was an Indian Muslim settlement, and included the tomb of Cauder Mydin Merican, the Indian Muslim leader that founded the mosque, located on a plot between Buckingham Street and Kampung Kolam.
