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John Buchan
Scottish author and statesman (1875–1940)
John Buchan, 1st Baron TweedsmuirGCMG GCVO CH PC DL (; 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.
As a youth, Buchan began writing poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, publishing his first novel in 1895 and ultimately writing over a hundred books of which the best known is The Thirty-Nine Steps. After attending Glasgow and Oxford universities, he practised as a barrister. In 1901, he served as a private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa towards the end of the Boer War. He returned to England in 1903, continued as a barrister and journalist. He left the Bar when he joined Thomas Nelson and Sons publishers in 1907. During the First World War, he was, among other activities, Director of Information in 1917 and later Head of Intelligence at the newly-formed Ministry of Information. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1
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After an absence of 46 years, John Buchanan has published a short story in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. "Death by Misadventure" can be read in the March/April 2010 issue. In 1964 EQMM published "Direct Hit," which was subsequently chosen for inclusion in the Mystery Writers of America Anthology for that year, as was another story, "The Journeymen," in the 1965 anthology.
John Buchanan was born in Glens Falls, NY, 13 September 1931. He grew up in Hudson Falls, NY, Cheboygan, MI, Columbus, OH, and Chagrin Falls, OH, and graduated from Chagrin Falls High School in 1949. Following service in the army (1951-54), he graduated from St. Lawrence University (1958) magna cum laude with highest honors in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching high school history in Newark Valley, NY, he was an archivist at Cornell University (1960-64). In 1966 he joined the staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1966-1993), first as Archivist of the Museum and for 22 years Chief Registrar in charge of worldwide art movements. In that capacity he traveled widely in the U.S., Canad
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John Buchanan (botanist)
New Zealand botanist and scientific artist
John Buchanan (13 October 1819 – 18 October 1898) was a New Zealand botanist and scientific artist. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society.[1]
Biography
Buchanan was born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and in his early life apprenticed as a calico pattern designer,[2] then was foreman of a drawing shop, with a hobby of botany.[1] He emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1852, in the early years of the Scottish settlement, and worked as a survey assistant and gold prospector during the Otago gold rush.[1][2][3] During this time, he was an amateur botanist, collecting plant specimens that he sent to John Ross, a friend in Scotland who was also an amateur botanist.[1][2] When James Hector was leaving Britain in 1861 to head the Geological Survey of Otago, Joseph Dalton Hooker, who had heard of Buchanan from Ross, suggested him to Hector as a botanist.[3] In 1862 Hector employed Buchanan as a botanist and draugh
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