![]() After several careers, he ended by accepting a peerage as Lord Tweedsmuir and serving as governor-general of Canada until his death in 1940. Born the son of a Free Church of Scotland minister, Buchan won his way to Oxford, became a recognised scholar in history, and wrote about 100 books. The book, and the many films and TV adaptations of it, is The Thirty-Nine Steps.īuchan certainly did not weaken, despite being a life-long martyr to duodenal ulcers, which often laid him low and prevented him serving in the army during the war. He wrote in a novel entitled Mr Standfast: "It's a great life – if you don't weaken!" And everyone seems to have heard of the famous thriller he wrote almost exactly a century ago, just as World War I was coming to the boil. But lots of people seem to know the wry comment on life that he coined long ago. Many people look blank when I mention John Buchan. ![]()
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