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1. johnbuchansociety.co.uk › the-john-buchan-storyMuseum in Peebles - John Buchan Society

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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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   What is the John Buchan story?

   • The John Buchan Story 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. It also portrays his family’s broader associations with Peebles and illustrates some of their achievements.

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   Where did John Buchan live in 1881?

   • In 1881, John Buchan, aged 5, was living with his family at the Free Church Manse, Smeaton Road, Dysart. The census record shows that his father was the minister at Pathhead, that his mother was born in Broughton and that his sister and brother were born in Pathhead. The household includes one servant.

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   Who was John Buchan?

   • He was born in 1875 in Perth, Scotland, at a time when a high premium was put on the importance of rigorous education, religious observance and public service. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John Buchan, and his wife, Helen Masterton, the daughter of a Border sheep farmer.

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   Which part of Scotland does John Buchan prefer?

   • In his poem 'The South Countrie', as well as in many other works, he goes further, preferringthe South of Scotland to every other part of Scotland. Check walk the John Buchan Way from Peebles to Broughton. Or to visit Dumfries and Galloway - stay at Knockinaam Lodge where Buchan was a guest.

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3. www.ft.com › content › b09ee3b6-50ad-11e9-8f44-fe4aBeyond the Thirty-Nine Steps — revealing biography of John Buchan

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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...

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5. www.atlasobscura.com › places › the-john-buchanThe John Buchan Story Museum – Peebles, Scotland - Atlas Obscura

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   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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   JB lived here as a child, when his father was minister in nearby Pathhead. Glasgow: 24 Queen Mary Avenue, Cathcart. The Buchan family lived here while the Rev Buchan was minister at John Knox Free Church in the Gorbals, 1888-1895. It carries a plaque to JB.

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7. britainunlimited.com › john-buchanJohn Buchan Biography/Chronology | Britain Unlimited

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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”.

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   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...

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   John Buchan Society, c/o Kenneth Hillier, Green Mairn Street, Kings Newton, Malsonne, Derby, DE73 1EX.

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8. johnbuchansociety.co.uk › john-buchanJohn Buchan - John Buchan Society

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   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.

9. kentliterature.com › john-buchan-stepping-out-inJohn Buchan: Stepping out in Broadstairs – Kent Literature

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   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 ...