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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Example Sentences

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

Judge Buchanan said Buchan had been "appallingly reckless" and also banned him from driving for 10 years and 11 months.

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

Buchan realized that “an old regime was passing away,” and that the “vanishing” of one world and the arrival of another was “apt to crush those who had to meet it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Gilbert de Haya, Regent of Scotland during the minority of Alexander II., married a daughter of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan, about 1255.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick