Buchan

American  

[buhk-uhn, buhkh-uhn] / ˈbʌk ən, ˈbʌx ən /

noun

1. John Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875–1940, Scottish novelist and historian: governor general of Canada 1935–40.

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Buchan British  

/ ˈbʌkən /

noun

1. John , 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. 1875–1940, Scottish statesman, historian, and writer of adventure stories, esp The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) and Greenmantle (1916); governor general of Canada (1935–40)

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Buchan

She recently collaborated with Canadian pros John Buchan and Jason Knight to find local acting talent for “Vladimir,” which shot in Toronto.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

Buchan accepted it was him driving and that the clip had been filmed in the Aberdeen area.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Buchan, from Aberdeen, had been driving a black high-performance Audi RS3, which had a top speed of 155mph, at the time of the crash.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

“I read and reread Thucydides,” the British novelist and politician John Buchan recalled in his memoir of World War I, “for he also had lived among crumbling institutions.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Here we find him in 1728 with his cousin Lord Villiers and Lord Buchan, father of the grotesque egotist of that name and of Henry and Thomas Erskine.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose