Thomas Ryburn Buchanan

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Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (born April 2, 1846 in Glasgow , † April 7, 1911 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

Buchanan was born in Glasgow in 1846, the third son of John Buchanan . He attended Sherborne School and then studied at Balliol College , which he left in 1870 with a bachelor's degree . Buchanan then moved to All Souls College . In 1873 he was inducted into the Inner Temple and was admitted to the bar. On August 15, 1888, he married Emily Octavia Bolitho . He died in 1911. His widow bequeathed his 116 volume records to the Edinburgh University library .

Political career

For the first time Buchanan came to elections at the national level in the general election in 1880 . He was in the Haddingtonshire constituency as a candidate for the Liberal Party against the Conservative Lord Elcho . Buchanan lost on election day by a difference of only 44 votes. By -elections were held in the Edinburgh constituency in August 1881 . With these Buchanan stepped up and won the lower house mandate unopposed. With the division of the constituency of Edinburgh into four constituencies in the run-up to the general election in 1885 , Buchanan now applied for the mandate of the constituency of Edinburgh West . He clearly prevailed against the conservative Jamieson and remained in the British Parliament.

For the elections in 1886 Buchanan ran again in the constituency of Edinburgh West, but this time for the Liberal Unionists . He won the mandate safely. After Buchanan had turned away from the Liberal Unionists and turned back to the Liberal Party, he gave back his lower house mandate and thus forced by-elections in which the Liberal Unionist Thomas Raleigh ran against him. In the elections held on February 18, 1888, he emerged victorious by just 54 votes. In the general election of 1892 he was defeated by his opponent William Palmer and initially lost his mandate.

After the liberal Peter Esslemont had returned his lower house mandate for the constituency of East Aberdeenshire , Buchanan ran for the due by-elections on December 10, 1892. He prevailed clearly against the conservative opponent and was given a further seat in the lower house. After Buchanan defended his mandate in the elections in 1895 , he narrowly lost it in the subsequent elections in 1900 to the liberal unionist Archibald White Maconochie . In 1903, John Kinloch gave up his East Perthshire constituency mandate , which he had held since 1892. Buchanan won the by-elections that were due without a candidate. In the following general election in 1906 Buchanan defended his mandate against the Conservative John Stewart-Murray . Buchanan was Finance Secretary of the War Office between 1905 and 1908, and between 1908 and 1909 he was Parliamentary Secretary of the India Office . At the general election in 1910 Buchanan has not raced for more.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1886, p. 22.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Ryburn Buchanan on thepeerage.com , accessed April 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Information from Edinburgh University Library
  4. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1881, p. 272.
  5. ^ The Liberal and Radical Year Book 1887, p. 144.
  6. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1886, p. 188.
  7. ^ Liberal Year Book 1888, p. 303
  8. ^ Liberal Year Book 1908, p. 254
  9. ^ Mansons ′ Shetland Almanac and Directory for 1893 , T & Manson, Lerwick, 1893, p. 18.
  10. ^ J. Whitaker: An Almanack For the Year of Our Lord , London, 1894, 142.
  11. ^ Black & White Parliamentary Album , Black & White, 1895.
  12. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook 1904, p. 180.
  13. ^ J. Whitaker: An Almanack For the Year of Our Lord , London, 1906, p. 146.
  14. ^ Liberal Year Book 1906, p. 321.
  15. ↑ Thomas Ryburn Buchanan at Hansard (English)

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SURNAME Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1911