BRYDSON, Rev. Thomas. b. Glasgow 1806; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow and Edin.; minister of Levern chapel near Paisley 1839–42; minister of Kilmalcolm 1842 to death; author of Poems 1829; Pictures of the past 1832; contributed to Edinburgh Literary Journal and Republic of letters, Glasgow. d. Kilmalcolm 28 Jany. 1855. The modern Scottish minstrel by Charles Rogers iv, 172–3 (1857).
BRYMER, Ven. William Thomas Parr. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; R. of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset 1821 to death; archdeacon of Bath 6 March 1839 to death; canon res. of Wells 1840 to death; superintended affairs of the entire diocese during incapacity of Bishop Law. d. Charlton Mackrell 19 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii, 544 (1852).
BRYSON, Alexander. b. Edinburgh 12 Oct. 1816; clock and watch maker at Edin. 1840 to death; F.R.S. Edin. 1858; pres. of Royal Soc. of Arts 1860; pres. of Royal Physical Soc. 1863; F.G.S. London and Edin.; author of many papers on geology. d. Hawkhill 7 Dec. 1866.
BRYSON, Alexander. Assistant surgeon R.N. 7 Feb. 1827; inspector general of hospitals and fleets 30 June 1855; hon. physician to the Queen 1859 to death; director general of medical department of navy 1864–9; F.R.S. 1 June 1854; C.B. 7 June 1865. d. The Heritage, Barnes, Surrey 12 Dec. 1869 aged 67.
BUCCLEUCH, Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5 Duke of. (2 son of 4 Duke of Buccleuch 1772–1819). b. Dalkeith house near Edinburgh 25 Nov. 1806; ed. at Eton and St. John’s coll. Cam., M.A. 1827, LLD. 1842, D.C.L. Ox. 1834; succeeded 20 April 1819; lord lieut. of Midlothian 5 March 1828 to death, of Roxburghshire 2 Dec. 1841 to death; K.T. 5 Nov. 1830; K.G. 23 Feb. 1835; pres. of Royal Archers 1837–9, captain general 1839 to death; lord privy seal 2 Feb. 1842 to 21 Jany. 1846; P.C. 2 Feb. 1842; colonel of Edinburgh militia 6 Jany. 1842 to death; lord pres. of the council 21 Jany. 1846 to 6 July 1846; chancellor of Univ. of Glasgow 24 April 1878; constructed harbour and port of Granton 1835. d. Bowhill house, co. Selkirk 16 April 1884, will proved in London 30 Oct. 1884, personalty in England £475,000 in Scotland £435,000. Sir H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen Victoria (1845) 55–63; J. B. Paul’s History of royal company of archers (1875), portrait; R. C. Dudgeon’s History of Edinburgh militia (1882), portrait; Graphic xxix, 400 (1884), portrait.
BUCHAN, Henry David Erskine, 12 Earl of. b. July 1783; succeeded 19 April 1829. d. 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1857.
BUCHAN, Peter. b. Peterhead 1790; a printer there 1816 to death; author of The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses in the Scottish dialect 1814; Annals of Peterhead 1819; Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal 1824; Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished 2 vols. 1828 and many other works. d. London 19 Sep. 1854. W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii, 691–3 (1863).
BUCHANAN, Sir Andrew, 1 Baronet (only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadock Ardinconnal, co. Dumbarton 1776–1860). b. 7 May 1807; attached to embassy at Constantinople 10 Oct. 1825; minister plenipotentiary to Swiss confederation 12 Feb. 1852; envoy extraordinary and min. plenipo. to king of Denmark 9 Feb. 1853; transferred to Madrid 31 March 1858; transferred to the Hague 11 Dec. 1860; ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to King of Prussia 28 Oct. 1862; P.C. 3 Feb. 1863; ambassador extraord. and plenipo. to Russia 15 Sep. 1864, to Austria 16 Oct. 1871 to 16 Feb. 1878 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 23 May 1857, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1860, G.C.B. 6 July 1866; created a baronet 14 Dec. 1878. d. Craigend castle near Glasgow 12 Nov. 1882.
BUCHANAN, George (3 son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer 1745–1812). b. Montrose about 1790; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; a land surveyor about 1812 then a civil engineer; engaged in all the important salmon fishing cases in Scotland; built chimney nearly 400 feet high for Edinburgh gasworks 1848; F.R.S. Edin.; pres. of Royal Scottish Society of Arts 1847–8; author of Report on the theory and application of Leslie’s Photometer 1824 and of the article “Furnaces” in 8 ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica. d. 30 Oct. 1852.
BUCHANAN, Gilbert John Lane. Second lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1831, colonel 16 July 1862 to 2 April 1870; commanded at Fort William, Bengal 10 Sep. 1867 to 2 April 1870; M.G. 6 March 1868. d. Cambridge st. Hyde park sq. London 13 April 1875.