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unusual facts about John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir



Chatham Dining Club

The Club rapidly grew and was run for many years by the founder members including John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Robert Brand, 1st Baron Brand and Sir Cuthbert Headlam, 1st Baronet.

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose

There are several modern works on Montrose, including two biographies by John Buchan and one by Dame Veronica Wedgwood, and Montrose: The King's Champion by Max Hastings.

Lizzie Mickery

In 2008 she wrote the screenplay for the BBC drama The 39 Steps, an adaptation of the John Buchan novel The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Northern Circuit

There have been other Circuiteers who have attained fame outside the law – the author John Buchan, W.S. Gilbert and James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Pathhead

The town houses the historic Ravenscraig Castle commissioned by James II in 1460; many of the former premises of the Nairn's Linoleum Factories; and, the Manse in which both O. Douglas and John Buchan grew up.

Scottish History Society

Other Presidents have included the novelist and politician John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir and Dr Jenny Wormald.

Tomorrow series

To do this Marsden looked to the authors he had read most avidly as a teenager, thriller writers such as Ian Fleming, Desmond Bagley, John Buchan, Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean.

Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park

The park, or rather the original Tweedsmuir Provincial Park which included what is now Tweedsmuir North Provincial Park and Protected Area, was created in 1938 in the wake of a 1937 visit by floatplane and horseback to the Rainbow Range by John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, who was then Governor-General of Canada.


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