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, 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

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

“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

Russel, Lind, Buchan, and various other medical writers, have recommended the internal use of sea-water in scrofulous and cutaneous affections; but its use in the present day is pretty nearly exploded.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen