Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn
Owner Id00011634
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1846 - 1911
Other InformationBuchanan was the third son of John Buchanan of Dowanhill, merchant of Glasgow, and Jane, daughter of John Young, merchant of Glasgow.
Educated at Glasgow High School, Sherborne, and Balliol College, Oxford, he became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1871, a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1873, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh 1881 1892, for East Aberdeenshire 1892 1900 and for East Perthshire 1903 1910. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office 1905 1908 and under-secretary for India 1908 1909. In his political career Buchanan was affected more than most by the vicissitudes the Liberal Party experienced at this time. The peak of Buchanan's career was his period as parliamentary under-secretary for India, an office he held from April 1908 until June 1909 when illness forced him to resign.
Fellow of Balliol and All Souls Colleges, Oxford; MP. His widow, Emily Octavia Buchanan, allowed All Souls and the Bodleian to make their selection from his library; see Kidd; Who's Who of British Members of Parliament, ii, 49-50; Craster 286-7; S. Gibson, `Bookbindings in the Buchanan Collection', BLR 2 (1941), 6-12; M. J. Sommerlad, Scottish `Wheel' and `Herring-Bone' Bindings in the Bodleian Library, OBS Occasional Publication, 1 (Oxford, 1967); his coat of arms was added in gilt on the covers of some books: per pale azure and gules, a lion rampant sable, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the third, all within a bordure engrailled or (e.g. on P-465); the correspondence and lists of books from the various Buchanan houses which were then taken by the Bodleian and by All Souls are in the Library Archives (Library Records c. 1026).
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Activity
Start (year)1846
End (year)1911
MARC Area Codee-uk
PlaceGlasgow (Geonames Id: 2648579)
Profession / Type of InstitutionPolitician
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
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