What is John Buchan?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]] [[The Right Honourable]] | name = The Lord Tweedsmuir | honorific-suffix = {{postnom|country=GBR|size=100|GCMG|GCVO|CH|PC|DL}} | image = Lord tweedsmuiir.jpg | order = 15th | office = Governor General of Canada | term_start = 2 November 1935 | term_end = 11 February 1940 | monarch = {{unbulleted list | [[George V]] | [[Edward VIII]] | [[George VI]]}} | primeminister = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] | predecessor = [[Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough|The Earl of Bessborough]] | successor = [[Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone|The Earl of Athlone]] | office2 = [[#External links|More...]] | birth_name = John Buchan | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1875|8|26}} | birth_place = [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]], [[Perthshire]], Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1940|02|11|1875|08|26}} | death_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada | alma_mater = {{ubl|[[University of Glasgow]]|[[Brasenose College, Oxford]]}} | party = [[Unionist Party (Scotland)|Scottish Unionist]] | spouse = {{marriage|[[Susan Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir|Susan Grosvenor]]|15 July 1907}} | children = Alice, [[John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir|John]], [[William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir|William]], [[Alastair Francis Buchan|Alastair]] | profession = [[Author]] | signature = John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Signature.svg |}} '''John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir''' (1875-1940) was a British statesman and writer, today mostly remembered for his fine adventure stories. Buchan was educated at the [[University of Glasgow]] and [[Oxford]], and began to write and publish stories from his college days. He later qualified as a lawyer and went to [[South Africa]] to work there in a government (colonial) job. He later served in many countries as a representative of the British government and was later made Govern