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John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir CBE, CD, FRSE, FRSA (25 November 1911 – 20 June 1996), commonly called Johnnie Buchan, was a British peer and the son of the novelist John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. He was a colonial administrator, naturalist, and adventurer.
Johnnie Buchan, second Baron Tweedsmuir, might have stepped full- grown out of his father's imagination. Handsome, brave and kind, cunning with his hands, a brilliant fisherman and...
William de l'Aigle Buchan, was born in 1916, the second son of John Buchan and Susan Grosvenor. His father's blood gave him Calvinist vigour and Borders poetry, his mother's infused English...
Baron Tweedsmuir, of Elsfield in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created in 1935 for the author and Unionist politician John Buchan. He served as Governor-General of Canada from 1935 to his death in 1940.
Mar 19, 2023 · Death: June 20, 1996 (84) North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. Immediate Family: Son of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, PC GCMG GCVO CH and Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir. Husband of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie and Private. Father of Private.
In the 1960s William Buchan — the second son of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir and the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps — said of his father: “The more I read his books again, the more I admire them. They have a moral strength and purpose.”
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (⫽ ˈ b ʌ x ən ⫽; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
