Lord tweedsmuir biography
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Lord tweedsmuir biography
The Forth Rail Bridge from Queensferry: the Bridge Featured in Films of the Book "The Thirty-Nine Steps" |
John Buchan lived from 26 August 1875 to 11 February 1940.
A lawyer and politician who became Governor General of Canada, he is probably most widely remembered as a prolific author of a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books, and most notably for bringing Richard Hannay to life in The Thirty-Nine Steps and the books that followed it in the series.
His full and formal title at the end of his life was The Right Honourable John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Buchan was born in Perth, the son of a Free Church minister.
The family moved first to Fife and then to Glasgow, where he studied at Hutcheson's Grammar School. He went on to Glasgow University, and then to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won