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
