* Buchan, James, Crowded with Genius: the Scottish Enlightenment ; Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind ( 2003 ).

* Buchan, James.

* with Isabel Stewart, daughter of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan:

Buchan was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of the Marquess of Montrose, but the most famous of his books were the spy thrillers, and it is for these that he is now best remembered.

On this occasion Coxswain Andrew Ritchie, Mechanic George Duthie, Bowman Charles Tait, Assistant Mechanic James Noble and Crew Members John Crawford and John Buchan all lost their lives-the only survivor was Charles Tait.

Those killed were Coxswain John Stephen, Mechanic Frederick Kirkness and Crew Members William Hadden, James RS Buchan and James Buchan.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: John Buchan, Montrose

* Whitbread Best Book Award: James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women

Notable winners have included Robert Stephen Hawker, John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Laurence Binyon, Oscar Wilde, John Buchan, John Addington Symonds, James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst.

* Mary Stewart, Countess of Buchan ( before 1428 – 1465 ), fifth daughter of James I of Scotland, 1st Countess of Buchan

* James Buchan, Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World

Whereas Grampian had previously restricted its output to news and current affairs beforehand, production controller James Buchan decided to go for broke and branch out to produce light entertainment and music shows ( originally, at the rate of four programmes a week )-such output would remain a staple of the station's local output for the next forty years or so.

The Honourable James Buchan, younger son of the third Baron, is an author.

In April 1385, at the council, Buchan's brother David claimed that Buchan was holding Urquhart unlawfully, while Sir James Lindsay of Crawford reinstated his claim to the Lordship of Buchan and finally, the Earl of Moray demanded that some of Buchan's men be prosecuted for the killing of some of his men.

In 2011, Peter Hitchens wrote, " Henry James and John Buchan praised him.

* Peter Buchan, An historical and authentic account of the ancient and noble family of Keith, Earls Marischal of Scotland, from their origin in Germany down to 1778, including a narrative of the military achievements of James Francis Edward Keith, Field-Marshal in Prussia .... Peterhead, 1820

* James Buchan, A Parish of Rich Women

He married in 1511 ( her first of four husbands ) Agnes ( died February, 1557 ), the illegitimate daughter of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan by Margaret Murray.

* James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan ( 1442 – 1499 ), High Chamberlain of Scotland in 1471 and Scottish Ambassador to France in 1473.

Robert's sons, John, Earl of Carrick, the king's heir, and Robert, Earl of Fife, were made keepers of the castles of Edinburgh and Stirling respectively, while Alexander, Lord of Badenoch and Ross and afterwards Earl of Buchan, became the king's Justiciar and lieutenant in the north of the Kingdom.

Formed in Edinburgh by ex-soldier Wattie Buchan, they signed to Secret Records in March 1981 and released their debut EP Army Life.

Erskine was the third and youngest surviving son of Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, and was born in a tenement at the head of South Grays Close on the High Street in Edinburgh.

Scottish novelist Allan Massie, who tutored Rankin while Massie was writer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh, reassured him by saying, who would want to be a dry academic writer when " they could be John Buchan?

** Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, edited by J. Bain ( 4 vols., Edinburgh, 1881 – 1888 ); Peter Buchan,

Meanwhile, Buchan became a Labour Member of Parliament and was the organiser of the Edinburgh Folk Festival for several years.

In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War.

The situation changed again on 10 February 1306, when Robert the Bruce murdered his rival John Comyn and a few weeks later, on 25 March, had himself crowned king of Scotland by Isobel, sister of the Earl of Buchan.

In 1991 The Buchan amalgamated with King William's College and changed to a co-educational prep school for King William's College.

Buchan's name had been earlier put forward by Mackenzie King to George V as a candidate for the governor generalcy: Buchan and his wife had been guests of Mackenzie King's at his estate, Kingsmere, in 1924, and Mackenzie King, who at that time was prime minister, was impressed with Buchan, stating, " I know no man I would rather have as a friend, a beautiful, noble soul, kindly & generous in thought & word & act, informed as few men in this world have ever been, modest, humble, true, man after God's own heart.

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan and wife of John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan ( a cousin of the murdered John Comyn ), who claimed the right of her family, the MacDuff Earl of Fife, to crown the Scottish king for her brother, Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife – who was not yet of age, and in English hands – arrived the next day, too late for the coronation, so a second coronation was held and once more the crown was placed on the brow of Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Annandale, King of the Scots.

Recovering, leaving John Comyn, 3rd Earl of Buchan unsubdued at his rear, Bruce returned west to take Balvenie and Duffus Castles, then Tarradale Castle on the Black Isle.

During the War, the propagandist John Buchan, became the pre-eminent British spy novelist.

* John Buchan

* February 11 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada ( b. 1875 )

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | The Lord Tweedsmuir gives the Speech from the throne | Throne Speech at the opening of the third session of the 18th Canadian Parliament | 18th Canadian parliament, 27 January 1938

John Buchan was, in preparation for his appointment as governor general, made the Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in the County of Oxford by King George V, six months before Buchan was sworn in as viceroy.

Many novels in the spy fiction genre have been adapted as films, including works by John Buchan, Le Carré, Ian Fleming ( Bond ) and Len Deighton.

The article also compared Fleming unfavourably to John Buchan and Raymond Chandler in both moral and literary measures.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir | Lord Tweedsmuir was Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940.

*" Castor, Gobernador " fictional character in The Courts of the Morning by John Buchan

At this stage, it is probable that the king felt unable to move against the rest of the Albany Stewarts while Murdoch's brother, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan and the Earl of Douglas were fighting the English on the Dauphinist cause in France.

Some important prisoners were taken: John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and the earls of Atholl, Ross and Menteith, together with 130 knights and esquires.

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir ( 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.

Buchan was the first child of John Buchan a Free Church of Scotland minister and Helen Jane Buchan.

Together, Buchan and his wife had four children, Alice, John, William, and Alastair, two of whom would spend most of their lives in Canada.