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

However, Ted Buchan, 68, said he didn't know what the fuss was all about.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 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

The tax authority said Ms Buchan had failed to pay £38,902.37 in tax between 6 April, 2022 and 5 April, 2023.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

The 'Fox' on a Rock near Buchan Island.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by McClintock, Francis Leopold