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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.
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There he developed a love of walking, as well as for the local scenery and wildlife, which often featured in his novels ; the name of a protagonist in several of Buchan's books Sir Edward Leithen is borrowed from the Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed.
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This had been done in preparation for Buchan's appointment as Canada's governor general ; when consulted by Canadian prime minister Richard Bennett about the appointment, the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, William Lyon Mackenzie King, had recommended that the King allow Buchan to serve as viceroy as a commoner, but George V insisted that he be represented by a peer.
" The Governor General had formed a strong bond with his prime minister, even if it may have been built more on political admiration than personal friendship ; while Mackenzie King appreciated his " sterling rectitude and disinterested purpose ," despite being wary of Buchan's vices ( such as his penchant for titles ),
Carrick had been made the king's lieutenant partly on the need to curb Buchan's excesses yet despite this by February 1387 Buchan had become even more powerful and influential when he was appointed Justiciar north of the Forth.
By late 1404 Robert, with the aid of his close councillors Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming and Henry Wardlaw, had succeeded in re-establishing himself and intervened in favour of Alexander Stewart, the earl of Buchan's illegitimate son, who was in dispute with Albany over the earldom of Mar.
Buchan's increased influence in Scottish affairs was again furthered when sometime before February 1387, he was appointed Justiciar North of the Forth Carrick's guardianship of Scotland had not been a success and certainly failed to reign in Buchan and so late in 1388, King Robert's second son, Robert, Earl of Fife became the effective ruler of the Kingdom.
While Hopkirk draws various connections between Buchan's work and the historical events, there is no indication that Buchan had knowledge of the actual events or used them as the basis for his story.
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Later it is recorded that three sons of Buchan's were imprisoned in Stirling Castle from 1396 to 1402 and Alexander Grant theorises that Buchan's low profile during the 1390s might have been because of his sons ' incarceration.
BBC Radio 4 pulled its scheduled Classic Serial without explanation ; it was to have been John Buchan's Greenmantle, about the revolt of Muslims against British interests abroad.
Buchan's and forward
Buchan's idea was to move the centre half from a roaming position in midfield to a " stopper " position in defence, with one forward brought back into midfield.
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Buchan's lands did not fall to the Albany Stewarts but were forfeited by the crown, Albany's father-in-law, Duncan, Earl of Lennox was imprisoned and in December the duke's main ally Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar settled his differences with the king.
They contrasted with early American hardcore bands by placing an emphasis on appearance with frontman Walter " Wattie " Buchan's giant red mohawk, and the bands continuance of wearing swastikas a la Sid Vicious.
Tweedsmuir Provincial Park in British Columbia, now divided into Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park and Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area, was created in 1938 to commemorate Buchan's 1937 visit to the Rainbow Range and other nearby areas by horseback and floatplane.
* another by Louis Jean Nicolas Monmerque ( 1780 – 1860 ) in 8 volumes ( 1821 – 1824 ), reproduced in Buchan's Pantheon littéraire
Hours before his death, by coincidence, a new issue of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly was published in the United Kingdom, with a photograph of a smiling Edwards on the cover.
Buchan's idea, implemented by Chapman, was to move the centre half from a roaming position in midfield to a " stopper " position in defence.
Since 2006, the Criterion has hosted the long-running melodrama The 39 Steps, adapted for the stage by Patrick Barlow from John Buchan's 1915 novel, which was adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935.
Although drawing on Buchan's novel, it is chiefly influenced by Hitchcock's 1935 film adaptation.
Buchan's and Mackenzie
Buchan's experiences during the First World War made him averse to conflict, he tried to help prevent another war in coordination with United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King.
Buchan's and King
Not all Canadians shared Buchan's views ; he raised the ire of imperialists when he said in Montreal in 1937: " a Canadian's first loyalty is not to the British Commonwealth of Nations, but to Canada and Canada's King ," a statement that the Montreal Gazette dubbed as " disloyal.
King Robert's reputation declined because of his backing Buchan's methods and so in November 1384, John, Earl of Carrick with the backing of the general council, took executive authority from his father with lawlessness in the north being a major issue.
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Buchan's ashes were returned to the UK aboard the cruiser HMS Orion for final burial at Elsfield, his family estate in Oxfordshire.
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 addition, Bishop Bur's involvement with Buchan's estrangement with his wife and then Bur's alignment with Moray presented an opportunity for revenge culminating in the destruction of Forres in May and then Elgin with its cathedral in June.
This was typical of British adventure stories of the period ( e. g. Buchan's Greenmantle, 1916 ), but McNeile's works are notable for their frequent hostile references to foreigners, especially Germans, and to Jews.
The Rhymney Valley produced a miner poet, Idris Davies of Rhymney, famous for his poems associated with the locality and the struggles of its people, and prolific writer Marion Evans, a local historian who has produced five volumes of her series of A Portrait of Rhymney with cameos of Pontlottyn, Tafarnaubach, Princetown, Abertysswg and Fochriw together with The History of Andrew Buchan's Rhymney Brewery.
Buchan's first game for United came on 4 March 1972 against Tottenham in the First Division.
* John Buchan's novel The Gap in the Curtain is similarly premised on a group of people being enabled to see, for a moment, an item in the Times newspaper from one year in the future.
* C language examples of Linux raw sockets for IPv4 and IPv6-David Buchan's C language examples of IPv4 and IPv6 raw sockets for Linux.
The reason for Buchan's appointment was a mystery.
Buchan's playing career started with Arsenal ( then Woolwich Arsenal ) before he moved to Leyton, and then onto a prolific fourteen-year period with Sunderland: he was Sunderland's leading scorer for seven of his nine seasons with the club, and remains the club's all-time record League goalscorer.
* Search facility for all of Charles Buchan's Football Monthly magazines dating back to 1951
Buchan's and Buchan
In the years between 1402 and 1406 Albany's considerable interests in the north were endangered forcing the duke into a reluctant alliance with his brother Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan and Buchan's son, also Alexander.
The novel featured Buchan's oft used hero, Richard Hannay, whose character was based on Edmund Ironside, a friend of Buchan from his days in South Africa.
Fife was retained as Guardian of Scotland probably much against Buchan's hopes as he must have looked at some sort of volte-face on some of Fife's actions, particularly as Buchan reached his zenith of possessions under Carrick.
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The king's failure to take a leading role in prosecuting the war with England and Buchan's abuse of royal power in the north was the backdrop to the general council meeting at Holyrood Abbey in November 1384 where the decision was taken to sideline the king and provide the ruling powers to Carrick.
The four month delay in the crowning of Robert III can be seen as a period when Fife and his affinity sought to ensure their future positions and which also saw Buchan's opportunistic attack on Elgin Cathedral, settling an old score with the Bishop of Moray and possibly also a protest at Fife's reappointment as the king's lieutenant.
Chapman and Buchan's arrival at the club coincided with a change in the laws of the game in June 1925, that modified the offside law.
In 1818 he served under Lieutenant ( afterwards Sir ) John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition, of which at a later period he published a narrative.
She died of tuberculosis at Ship Cove ( now Botwood ) aboard Buchan's vessel, the Grasshopper, on January 8, 1820.
In the mean time a detachment of 1, 200 infantrymen was to be placed at Buchan's disposal, to weaken the enemy ’ s quarters along the borders of the Lowlands.
He was disappointed and died at " Newhouse " in 1846-a death which coincided with the discovery of Mother Buchan's hidden mummified body.
The mood of optimism this engendered collapsed in 1423, when many of Buchan's men fell at the Battle of Cravant.
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