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The John Buchan Story is a museum located in Peebles, Scotland, packed with information and artefacts relating to Buchan’s life and writing, showing the variety and scale of his personal experience and literary output.
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JB lived here as a child, when his father was minister in...
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After the end of the war, the Buchans moved from London to...
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Apr 19, 2019 · After a stint overseas on the staff of Lord Milner, Britain’s high commissioner in South Africa, where he first imbibed the tonic of empire, Buchan married young aristocrat Susie Grosvenor in...
Apr 7, 2016 · Discover The John Buchan Story Museum in Peebles, Scotland: A small literary museum remembers the life and works of the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
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1909: “Prester John”. 1922: “Huntingtower”. 1915: “The Thirty-Nine Steps”. 1916: “Greenmantle”. 1917: “Poems Scots and English”. 1919: “Mr Standfast”. 1924:“The Northern Muse”. “The Three Hostages”, 1927: “WitchWood”. 1928: “Montrose”. 1932: “Sir Walter Scott”.
LONDON: The British Library. SCOTLAND: The John Buchan Centre in Broughton closed in 2012. The collection (and much more) moved to a new purpose-built museum in Peebles called the John Buchan Story, which opened in November 2012. (See www.johnbuchanstory.co.uk/for more details). The new museum explores the variety and scale of Buchan’s public, pers...
John Buchan Society, c/o Kenneth Hillier, Green Mairn Street, Kings Newton, Malsonne, Derby, DE73 1EX.
After the end of the war, the Buchans moved from London to the village of Elsfield in Oxfordshire, near enough to London for JB to continue to work there. However, in 1935, he left England for Canada when he was appointed Governor-General and raised to the peerage as Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield.
Buchan himself lived a life almost as dramatic as his best known character. Born in Scotland, the son of a Free Church Minister, he was educated at Glasgow and then Oxford universities, and worked successively, and sometimes simultaneously, as a barrister, the private secretary to the High Commissioner of South Africa, a war correspondent, and ...