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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada.
		Buchan married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, cousin of the Duke of Westminster, on July 15 1907.
		Tweedsmuir was aware of the suffering experienced by many Canadians due to the Depression and often wrote with compassion about their difficulties.
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	Buchan John 1st Baron Tweedsmuir - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), Scottish writer and statesman, born in Perth.
		Coleridge, John Duke, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-1897), British jurist, eldest son of the jurist Sir John Taylor Coleridge, born in Ottery St Mary,...
		Boyd Orr, John, 1st Baron Boyd Orr (1880-1971), British nutritionist and Nobel laureate, born in Kilmaurs, Scotland, and educated at the University...
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	John Buchan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) Buchan was a scottish writer and statesman who was born in Perth and was best known for his swift-paced adventure stories.
		A clergyman's son, Buchan was educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, where he began to publish fiction and history.
		After the war Buchan became assistant director of the British news agency Reuters and was member of Parliament for the Scottish universities, 1927-35.
	www.webscot.co.uk /greatscots/johnbuchan.htm (293 words)

	Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield
		Lord Tweedsmuir was aware of the suffering experienced by many Canadians due to the Depression and often wrote with compassion about their difficulties.
		Lord Tweedsmuir was recognized by Glasgow, St. Andrews, McGill, Toronto and Montreal Universities, all of which conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws, and he was made an Honorary Fellow and an Honorary D.C.L. of Oxford.
		Lord Tweedsmuir married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, cousin of the Duke of Westminster, on July 15, 1907.
	www.gg.ca /gg/fgg/bios/01/tweedsmuir_e.asp (821 words)

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		Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron see Buchan, John.
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	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) - Mackenzie King - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
		John Buchan was born in Perth, Scotland, and was educated at Oxford.
		Buchan was appointed Governor General of Canada in February 1935 and took office in November of that year.
		In 1955, the John Buchan Papers were purchased from the Tweedsmuir family by Queen's University, through the Office of the Rector, L.W. Brockington.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /king/05320113/053201130412_e.html (359 words)

	John Buchan Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		Buchan was born at Perth, Scotland, the eldest child of John Buchan, minister of the Free Church of Scotland, and his wife, Helen Masterson Buchan.
		Buchan's childhood was spent along the Fife coast and at Kirkcaldy, and his boyhood in Glasgow.
		In the dedication to Nelson, Buchan defined the shocker: "the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible." It was a definition Buchan was to elucidate repeatedly.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-buchan-dlb (1723 words)

	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Buchan was born in Perth, the son of a Free Church minister.
		Buchan's most famous work (not least because it has been filmed three times and may be filmed again) is The Thirty-Nine Steps, which appeared in 1915.
		In 1927 Buchan was elected as the Member of Parliament representing Scottish Universities, and in 1933 he was appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/johnbuchan.html (617 words)

	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Summary
		The "Buchan touch" is a term applied to fiction that shares his appeal: romantic yet not preposterous characters and a superb sense of...
		Despite his achievements as historian, biographer, historical novelist, and statesman, it is for his thrillers that John Buchan has found an enduring reputation in popular letters.
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC(26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Buchan,_1st_Baron_Tweedsmuir (235 words)

	John Buchan Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The event, planned to coincide with the visit to Canada of the John Buchan Society, included the annually held Archives Lecture, and an exhibition of the books and papers from the Buchan Collections.
		The theme of the displays was based on the varied facets of the life and work of Buchan, his interests, talents and roles.
		The image chosen for the poster of the John Buchan Exhibition at Queen's University and the Annual Archives Lecture of 2004 shows a young John Buchan, dapper in morning suit, with watch-chain neatly tucked into his waistcoat, and sporting on his feet the fashion of the day - spats.
	www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk /samples/spats.htm (274 words)

	thePeerage.com - nil and others
		She married William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, son of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir and Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, on 25 October 1939.
		She is the daughter of William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and Nesta Irene Crozier.
		She married William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, son of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir and Susan Charlotte Grosvenor, on 5 December 1946.
	www.thepeerage.com /p5861.htm (449 words)

	thePeerage.com - Brigadier Alan Fortescue Thomson and others
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was born on 26 August 1875.
		She married John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir on 15 July 1907.
		Norman de l'Aigle Grosvenor, son of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury, on 25 June 1881.
	www.thepeerage.com /p3872.htm (430 words)

	Baron Tweedsmuir at AllExperts
		Baron Tweedsmuir, of Elsfield in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
		It was created in 1935 for the author and Conservative politician John Buchan.
		His eldest son, the second Baron, was the husband of the Conservative politician Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/ba/baron_tweedsmuir.htm (160 words)

	Manuscripts Catalogue
		Farewell Address of the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland [P.D. Thomson] to His Grace, The Lord High Commissioner [John Buchan].
		Photograph of John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir and his sons beside Wolseley car.
		Asking MacColl to write to General John Buchan at the Foreign Office recommending him as a war...
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /manuscripts/search/resultsn.cfm?NID=1198&RID= (342 words)

	Overview of John Buchan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Born in Perth, the son of a clergyman, Buchan was raised in Pathhead (Fife) and educated in Kirkcaldy, at Hutcheson's Grammar School, Glasgow, and the University of Glasgow.
		During World War I, Buchan worked for the Propaganda Bureau in the Foreign Office, was attached to the British Army in France writing newspaper articles and eventually became Director of Information for the War Office (1917-18).
		Buchan became the Unionist Member of Parliament for the old constituency of the Scottish Universities (1927-35), Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh and a popular Governor-General of Canada (1935), dying in post.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst21.html (308 words)

	John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Buchan - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Buchan - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940, Scottish author and statesman.
		Copyright 2006 Columbia University Press For permission to reuse this article, contact Copyright Clearance Center.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Buchan-J.html (258 words)

	Florey Sir Howard Walter Baron Florey - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898-1968), Australian pathologist and codiscoverer of penicillin.
		Scott, Sir Walter : biographers: Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
		Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), Scottish writer and statesman.
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	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 1936 - Mackenzie King - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 1936 - Mackenzie King - Exhibitions - Library and Archives Canada
		John Buchan was a well-known British writer of fiction (including books such as The Thirty-Nine Steps), and of poetry and history.
		In 1935, Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir, became Governor General of Canada.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /king/05320113/05320113041201_e.html (77 words)

	The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940), was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of
		In 1910, he wrote Prester John, the first of his adventure novels, set in
		The "last Buchan" (as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review) is Sick Heart River (American title: Mountain Meadow), 1941, in which a dying protagonist confronts in the Canadian wilderness the questions of the meaning of life.
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	AUTHORS - John Buchan (1st Baron Tweedsmuir) 1875 - 1940
		He was MP for the Scottish Universities (1927--35), was made a baron, and became Governor-General of Canada until 1940.
		In 1937 he was made a privy councillor and Chancellor of Edinburgh University.
		Despite his busy public life, he wrote over 50 books, especially fast-moving adventure stories, such as Prester John (1910) and The Thirty-nine Steps (1915).
	www.globusz.com /Authors/Buchan.asp (119 words)

	John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Quotes and Quotations compiled by GIGA
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	NPG 3636; John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
		1 of 16 portraits of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
		John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), Novelist; Governor-General of Canada.
		National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
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