Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)
- Thomas Buchanan (Liberal politician)
Thomas Ryburn Buchanan PC (1846-7 April 1911), was a Scottish Liberal politician and bibliophile.
Buchanan was born in Glasgow and educated at Sherborne School and Balliol College, Oxford. He later became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar. In 1880 he unsuccessfully contested Haddington in the 1880 general election but was successfully returned to Parliament for Edinburgh in a 1881 by-election. This constituency was abolished in 1885 and he was elected for the newly created constituency of Edinburgh West as a Liberal Unionist. However, in 1888 Buchanan announced that he supported William Gladstone's Home Rule policy. He resigned his seat and was elected by a narrow majority as a Gladstonian and Home Ruler the same year.
He lost the Edinburgh West seat in 1892 but returned to the House of Commons in December the same year when he was elected to represent Aberdeenshire East in a by-election. He lost this seat in the 1900 general election and remained out of the House of Commons for the next three years. However, in February 1903 Buchanan was returned as the member for Perthshire East, a seat he held until 1910. When the Liberals came to power in December 1905 he was appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office by Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, a post he retained until April 1908. The latter month he was sworn of the Privy Council and made Under-Secretary of State for India by the new Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith. He remained in this post until June 1909.
Buchanan was also a noted collector of books and manuscripts. Some of his collections were donated by his widow to the University of Edinburgh and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, after his death. He died in April 1911.
References
* [http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/ Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page]
* [http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/buchanan.html Brief biography at Edinburgh University Library] ]
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