Baron John Buchan

1875 - 1940  (64 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 6 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Buchan
  Prefix	Baron
  Birth	26 Aug 1875
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Feb 1940
  Person ID	I271283	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2010

  
  

  Father	Rev. John Buchan,   b. 23 Apr 1847   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Helen Masterton   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F110200	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susan Charlotte Grosvenor,   b. 1882   d. 1977 (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	15 Jul 1907
  Children	+ 1. Baron John Norman Stuart Buchan,   b. 25 Nov 1911   d. 20 Jun 1996 (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F110201	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jul 2021

  
  

• Notes

  1st Baron Tweedsmuir a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief career in law, Buchan simultaneously began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in First World War. Once back in civilian life, Buchan was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but spent most of his time on his writing career. He wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction. He was in 1935 appointed as governor general by George V, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada Richard Bennett, to replace the Earl of Bessborough as viceroy, and occupied that post until his death in 1940. Buchan proved to be enthusiastic about literacy, as well as the evolution of Canadian culture, and he received a state funeral in Canada before his ashes were returned to the UK and interred at Elsfield, Oxfordshire.