Record ID:
35023294 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79045167 sh 86007323
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18750826
  • Perth, Scotland
Death:
  • 19400211
  • Montreal, Quebec
Associated with:
  • Scotland Canada
Occupations:
  • Authors Politicians Governors General
Used for:
  • Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, 1875-1940
  • Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, Baron, 1875-1940
See also:
Notes:
  • His Witch wood, 1993 CIP t.p. (John Buchan)
  • John Buchan Society online, viewed September 23, 2013 (John Buchan was born the son of a Calvinist presbyterian minister in eastern Scotland, and died Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada. He was a classicist at Oxford, read for the Bar but practiced only briefly before becoming a publisher, was a government administrator in South Africa at the end of the Boer War, was a major contributor to The Spectator and war correspondent for The Times. He was also a Member of Parliament for the Scottish Universities and was His Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, twice and Chancellor of Edinburgh University. was made a heritage peer on receiving the appointment of Governor-General of Canada in 1935. John Buchan is most famous for The Thirty-Nine Stepsand Greenmantle; born Perth, Scotland; died Montreal, Quebec) http://www.johnbuchansociety.co.uk/theman.html
  • John Buchan, 1947 p. 89 (The Island of Sheep published anonymously by Cadmus and Harmonia)
  • Wikipedia, viewed September 23, 2013 (John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG GCVO CH (26 August 1875 -- 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan,_1st_Baron_Tweedsmuir
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)9655
  • abv00063706
  • 000000023414
  • (AuCNL)149577
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC GU OCoLC PSt
Authentication code:
  • kin