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.

They are also mentioned-quite negatively-in a letter by Robert Burns: " bout two years ago, a Mrs Buchan from Glasgow came among them, & began to spread some fanatical notions of religion among them, [...] till in spring last the Populace rose & mobbed the old leader Buchan & put her out of the town ; on which all her followers voluntarily quit the place likewise, & with such precipitation, that many of them never shut their doors behind them [...] Their tenets are a strange jumble of enthusiastic jargon ; among others, she pretends to give them the Holy Ghost by breathing on them, which she does with postures & practices that are scandalously indecent.

The insightful quotation, " It's a great life, if you don't weaken ," is famously attributed to Buchan, as is, " No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated.

In John Buchan ’ s The Three Hostages ( 1924 ), Scott and his work Physiognomia are mentioned in reference to the arts of spiritual / mind control, a subject of great interest to Dominick Medina, the tale's antagonist.

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.

Buchan saw his novel-writing as part of the war effort.

In this role, he recruited writers ( such as John Buchan, H. G. Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle ) and painters ( e. g., Francis Dodd, Paul Nash ) to support the war effort.

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 ).

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.

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.

At the same time, Buchan ventured into the political arena, and ran as a Unionist candidate in a Scottish Borders constituency ; he supported free trade, women's suffrage, national insurance, and curtailing the powers of the House of Lords, though he did also oppose the welfare reforms of the Liberal Party, and what he considered to be the " class hatred " fostered by demagogic Liberals such as David Lloyd George.

In recognition of his contributions to literature and education, on 1 January 1932, Buchan was granted the personal gift of the sovereign of induction into the Order of the Companions of Honour.

* 1997-James Buchan, Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money

He proved to be the Honorable Thomas Erskine, youngest brother to the Earl of Buchan, who has since risen into such brilliant reputation at the Bar in Westminster-hall ".

In the NIBL's final season, 1960 – 61, the league had dropped down to only six members, and was divided into two divisions, Eastern ( Cleveland Pipers, Akron Goodyears, New York Tuck Tapers ) and Western ( Denver-Chicago Truckers, Phillips 66ers, and Seattle Buchan Bakers ).

The Earldom of Mar and Buchan formed one of the seven original Scottish earldoms ; later the Earl of Buchan became separated from Mar The district was eventually combined into the county of Aberdeenshire, along with Marr and later The Mearns.

* 1745 Map showing Buchan and Marr combined into Aberdeen ( Mearns not combined )

* 1745 Map showing Buchan and Marr combined into Aberdeen ( Mearns not combined )

It was not until 1229, when William Comyn of Buchan, led a royal army into Moray and finally, and brutally, pacified the province for King Alexander II ; he was rewarded by a grateful king with the lordship of Badenoch.

Strang's company Military Asset Management ( MAM ) " specialises in the regeneration of redundant or surplus Defence Assets " Another of Strang's ventures, Buchan Braes Ltd., went into liquidation in March 2010.

In 1996, the Banff and Buchan district was merged into the Aberdeenshire unitary council area, under the Local Government etc ( Scotland ) Act 1994.

Eventually subsumed into John Buchan ’ s Department of Information, and in 1918, Lord Beaverbrook ’ s even grander Ministry of Information, it became a template for the war art scheme in the Second World War, headed by Sir Kenneth Clark.

General Buchan advanced his men through Badenoch, intending to march down Speyside into the Duke of Gordons country, where he expected to muster additional forces.

In 1983 it was split and merged into Moray and Banff and Buchan.

Punk band The Exploited wrote the song " S. P. G " in response to the acts of the group at the time, and also in reference to an incident in which singer and author of the song Wattie Buchan was allegedly arrested by the SPG for violence at a demonstration.

In the new " WM " formation that Chapman and Arsenal captain Charlie Buchan pioneered, Roberts served as the tall " stopper " centre half in the middle of defence ; at the time this was a new tactic, created in response to the 1925 relaxation of the offside law, but soon became a ubiquitous position in English football.

He imprisoned Bruce's sister Mary and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, in wooden cages erected on the walls of Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively, and then sent Bruce's nine-year-old daughter Marjorie to the nunnery at Watton.

He sent his female relatives ( his wife, two sisters and Marjorie ) north with his supporter the Countess of Buchan, but by the end of June the band of Bruce women were captured and betrayed to the English by the Earl of Ross.

Princess Marjorie went to the convent at Watton ; her aunt Christina Bruce was sent to another convent ; Queen Elizabeth was placed under house arrest at a manor house in Yorkshire ( because Edward I needed the support of her father, the powerful Earl of Ulster, her punishment was lighter than the others '); and Marjorie's aunt Mary Bruce and the Countess of Buchan were imprisoned in wooden cages, exposed to public view, Mary's cage at Roxburgh Castle and Countess Isabella's at Berwick Castle.

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.

* June 20 – Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, fourth son of King Robert II of Scotland ( b. 1343 ) – " the Wolf of Badenoch "

* King Máel Coluim mac Cináeda of Alba reputedly defeats a Danish army at Cruden Bay in Buchan.

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.

The Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at the time, William Lyon Mackenzie King, felt Buchan should serve as governor general as a commoner ; however, George V insisted he be represented by a peer.

In 1371 King Robert II granted it to his son Alexander Stewart, 1st earl of Buchan ( 1343 – 1405 ), the " Wolf of Badenoch ".

In 1933 and 1934, Buchan was further appointed as the King George V's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

This came in the same year that Buchan was honoured with appointment to the Order of St. Michael and St. George on 23 May, as well as being elevated to the peerage, when he was entitled by King George V as Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in the County of Oxford on 1 June.

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.

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.

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.

Buchan conveyed to Buckingham Palace and British prime minister Stanley Baldwin Canadians ' deep affection for the King, but also the outrage to Canadian religious feelings, both Catholic and Protestant, that would occur if Edward married Simpson.

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.