Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another Scot was more in the eye of the news and of Edinburgh. The Assembly is opened every year by a Lord High Commissioner who represents the King-Emperor and gets ?2,000 for his work. This year the Commissioner was John Buchan, 57, famed author, third commoner and first "son of the manse" (minister's son) ever to get the appointment. Lord High Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first...
...John Buchan was brought up in the old Free Church which was merged with the Church of Scotland in 1929, when the Duke of York was Lord High Commissioner. A quiet, knobbly-browed Scotsman, he has been playwright, actor, newsman, publisher, lawyer, justice of the peace, agriculturist, tax expert, Wartime propagandist, soldier, lecturer, mountain-climber, angler. He sits in Commons for the Scottish Universities, is a trustee of the National Library of Scotland. Best known of his rare bills in Commons was for greyhound racing. John Buchan is famed in Great Britain and well-known...
...WALTER SCOTT?John Buchan ?Coward-McCann ($3.75). Shorter and more readable biography than Lockhart's, pat for the Scott centenary...
Into this misery, says Author Buchan, came a clerk of Oseney nearby Oxford. He was called Peter Pentecost, poor, humble, dispirited, and yet with a face and figure that any gypsy could tell were no churl...
...pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday noon I put everything...