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When Novelist John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir (for his Scottish birthplace) of Elsfield (for his home in Oxford), died last February in his 66th year, his fifth as Governor General of Canada, he had already finished the autobiography his career made inevitable. This provision was of a piece with the career-workmanlike, ordered, conscientious, religiously dutiful -which the last of John Buchan's 50-odd books records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Man's Burden | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...probably his his tory of the reign of George V (The King's Grace) that got him his appointment as Governor General. There was such a furor over the appointment of a commoner that the King made him Baron Tweedsmuir (for his home in Scotland) of Elsfield (for his house in Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Wee But Great | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

Died. Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, Governor General of Canada, 64; after three cranial operations; in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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