* 1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason ( b. 1710 )

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

* December 1 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason ( b. 1710 )

* April 17 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason ( d. 1767 )

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.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Buchan went to write for the British War Propaganda Bureau and worked as a correspondent in France for The Times.

Buchan then enlisted in the British Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps, where he wrote speeches and communiqués for Sir Douglas Haig.

It was difficult, given his close connections to many of Britain's military leaders, for Buchan to be critical of the British Army's conduct during the conflict.

Word of this reached the British Cabinet, and Buchan was approached, but he was reluctant to take the posting ; Byng had been writing to Buchan about the constitutional dispute that took place in June 1926 and spoke disparagingly of Mackenzie King.

In order for the line of succession for Canada to remain parallel to those of the other Dominions, Buchan, as Governor-in-Council, gave the government's consent to the British legislation formalising the abdication, and ratified this with finality when he granted Royal Assent to the Canadian Succession to the Throne Act in 1937.

Still, Buchan authorised Canada's declaration of war against Germany in September, shortly after the British declaration of war and with the consent of King George ; and, thereafter, issued orders of deployment for Canadian soldiers, airmen, and seamen as the titular commander-in-chief of the Canadian armed forces.

William Shakespeare's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king, and Alfred Noyes ' poem Forty Singing Seamen is based on the Prester John legend ; and in 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book, Prester John, to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa.

This seemingly paradoxical swing from Unionist to SNP can be explained for three reasons: the old Scottish Unionist Party's projection as an independent Scottish party opposing a British Labour Party ; the new use of the name " Conservative " viewed as rather English ; and the Unionist-Nationalist tradition of John Buchan and others who had founded the Scottish Party.

1936 saw the collaborative publication dedicated to Lord Tweedsmuir ( John Buchan ) with her husband Donald and illustrator Evelyn Dunbar ( later commissioned as the only female Official British WW2 artist ) of The Scots Week-End and Caledonian Vade-Mecum for Host, Guest and Wayfarer ( George Routledge & Sons Ltd .)

John Crawford Buchan ( 10 October 1892 – 22 March 1918 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Buchan was 25 years old, and a second lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders ( Princess Louise's ), British Army, attached to 8th Battalion during the First World War, and was awarded the VC for an act he performed on 21 March 1918 east of Marteville, France.

Banff and Buchan is a constituency of the British House of Commons, located in the north-east of Scotland within the Aberdeenshire council area.

In 2010, Tatiana appeared as the protagonist the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in the British four part television series The Nativity ( 2010 TV series ) opposite Andrew Buchan which received excellent ratings.

Sir ( Francis ) Christopher Buchan Bland ( born 29 May 1938 ) is a British businessman and politician.

* The Fixer ( TV series ), a British 2008 television drama, starring Andrew Buchan

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as the British secret service agent Colonel Buchan was the most regular cast member, appearing in series 1-4 and series 6.

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.

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.

It was announced from the Canadian prime minister's office on 10 August 1935 that the King had approved Bennett's recommendation of Buchan as the viceregal representative by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet.

The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1915 ) is an early thriller by John Buchan, in which an innocent man becomes the prime suspect in a murder case and finds himself on the run from both the police and enemy spies.

Founded by David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan on 18 December 1780, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, the former prime minister, was elected the first President.

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

By 1903 he had decided to become a Presbyterian minister and after serving as a home missionary at Beech Forest in the Otway Ranges ( 1903-4 ) and at Buchan in East Gippsland ( 1905-06 ) he entered the Presbyterian Theological Hall at Ormond College ( a college of the University of Melbourne ) to study divinity in 1907.

This takes the form of an account, written by a Scottish minister in middle age, of his youthful bewitchment by Elsie Buchan and of his curious sojourn among the Buchanites.

The royal tour had been conceived by Buchan before the coronation in 1937 ; according to the official event historian, Gustave Lanctot, the idea " probably grew out of the knowledge that as his coming Coronation, George VI was to assume the additional title of King of Canada ," and Buchan desired to demonstrate with living example through Canadians seeing " their King performing royal functions, supported by his Canadian ministers " the fact of Canada's status as an independent kingdom.

The city has produced or been home to musicians that have been extremely successful in modern times, particularly Ian Anderson, frontman of the band Jethro Tull ; Wattie Buchan, lead singer and founding member of punk band The Exploited ; Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage ; The Proclaimers ; the Bay City Rollers ; Boards of Canada and Idlewild.

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.

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.

* In Buchan the cluster cht, also ght, may be realised in a few words, rather than as in other dialects, for example: dochter ( daughter ), micht ( might ) and nocht ( nought ), often written dother, mith and noth in dialect writing.

* In Buchan, towards the coast, th followed by er may be realised, rather than as in other dialects, for example: brither ( brother ), faither ( father ), gaither ( gather ) and mither ( mother ), often written bridder, fadder, gaider ~ gedder and midder in dialect writing.

In Buchan, in some words the stem final w may be realised, often with a glide before the preceding vowel, for example awe ( awe ), blaw ( blow ), gnaw, law, snaw ( snow ) and taw ~ often written yaave, blyaave, gnaave, snyaave and tyauve ~ tyaave ~ chaave in dialect writing.

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.

Buchan won both the Stanhope essay prize, in 1897, and the Newdigate Prize for poetry the following year, as well as being elected as the president of the Oxford Union and having six of his works published.

Buchan entered into a career in diplomacy and government after graduating from Oxford, becoming the private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was then the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Governor of Cape Colony, and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, putting Buchan in what came to be known as Milner's Kindergarten.

Buchan also read for and was called to the bar in 1901, though he did not practice as a lawyer, and on 15 July 1907 married Susan Charlotte Grosvenor daughter of Norman Grosvenor and a cousin of the Duke of Westminster.

Recognised for his abilities, Buchan was appointed as the Director of Information in 1917, under the Lord Beaverbrook a job that Buchan said was " the toughest job I ever took on " and also assisted Charles Masterman in publishing a monthly magazine that detailed the history of the war, the first edition appearing in February 1915 ( and later published in 24 volumes as Nelson's History of the War ).

Robert Graves, who lived in nearby Islip, mentioned his being recommended by Buchan for a lecturing position at the newly founded Cairo University and, in a 1927 by-election, Buchan was elected as the Unionist Party Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities.