John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
(1875-1940), Novelist and Governor-General of CanadaSitter in 24 portraits
Author, publisher and Governor-General of Canada (1935-40). Buchan published his first novel, Sir Quixote of the Moors (1895), while still at university. He worked in South Africa from 1901 to 1903, assisting with reconstruction after the South African War. After returning to England, he worked as a publisher with Nelsons and assisted with propaganda during the First World War. Buchan's most famous novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, was published in 1915. In 1935 he was made Governor-General of Canada and proved an energetic and popular leader. He was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in 1935.
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John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1931
NPG x10485
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Howard Coster
10 x 8 inch film negative, 1931
NPG x13680
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate film negative, 13 July 1932
NPG x153758
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
by Walter Stoneman
negative, copied August 1941
NPG x519
Related People
- Anna Masterton Buchan (sister)
- Sir Edmund John William Hugh Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Bt (grandson)
- Alice Caroline Helen (née Buchan), Lady Fairfax-Lucy (daughter)
- (Mary Caroline Alys) Emma Lambe (née Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy) (granddaughter)
- Susan Charlotte (née Grosvenor), Baroness Tweedsmuir (wife)
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