BUCHANAN, Rev. James. b. Paisley 1804; minister of Roslin near Edin. 1827; minister of North Leith 1828; attained great fame as a preacher; D.D. Princeton college, New Jersey 1844; LLD. Glasgow; minister of high church Edin. 1840, of St. Stephens free church Edin. 1843; professor of apologetics in New college Edin. 1845 and of systematic theology 1847–68; author of Comfort in affliction 1837; Faith in God and modern atheism compared 2 vols. 1855; Analogy considered as a guide to truth, 2 ed. 1867. d. 1870.
BUCHANAN, Robert. b. Ayr 1813; a schoolmaster, a lecturer advocating socialistic views of Robert Owen and a journalist successively; author of The religion of the past and present society 1839; The origin and nature of ghosts 1840; Concise history of modern priestcraft 1840; The past, the present and the future 1840. d. Bexhill, Sussex 4 March 1866.
BUCHANAN, Rev. Robert. b. Callander 1785; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, LLD. 1869; licensed as a preacher of Church of Scotland 1812; minister of parish of Peebles 1813; assistant professor of logic Univ. of Glasgow 1824, professor 1827–64, the Buchanan prizes were instituted 1866 in commemoration of his services, he bequeathed by his will £10,000 for founding of Buchanan bursaries; author of Fragments of the table round 1860; Vow of Glentreuil and other poems 1862; Tragic dramas from Scottish history 1868 and Wallace, a tragedy 1856 performed twice at Prince’s theatre Glasgow March 1862. d. Ardfillayne, Dunoon 2 March 1873.
BUCHANAN, Rev. Robert (son of Mr. Buchanan of St. Ninians near Stirling, brewer and farmer). b. St. Ninians 15 Aug. 1802; ed. at Univs. of Glasgow and Edin.; licensed by presbytery of Dunblane; minister of Gargunnock near Stirling Oct. 1826; ordained 6 March 1827; minister of Salton, East Lothian 1829; minister of Tron church Glasgow 22 Aug. 1833; D.D. Glasgow 1840; minister of Free college church Glasgow 26 December 1857; pres. of Sustentation fund committee 1847–75; moderator of the Assembly 1860; presented with sum of £4,200 in Queen’s hotel, Glasgow 8 Aug. 1864; member of Glasgow school board 1872 to death; author of History of the ten years conflict 2 vols. 1849; Notes of a clerical furlough 1859; Book of Ecclesiastes 1859. d. 25 Via dell’ Angelo Custode Rome 31 March 1875. Robert Buchanan, D.D. an ecclesiastical biography by the Rev. L. N. Walker 1877, portrait; Good Words xix, 15–20 (1878), portrait; J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1878) 17–23.
BUCHANAN, Walter. b. Glasgow 1797; a merchant in Glasgow; M.P. for Glasgow 1 April 1857 to 6 July 1865. d. Plas Newton, Chester 21 May 1883.
BUCHANAN, William (son of David Buchanan of Montrose, printer and publisher 1745–1822). b. Montrose 1781; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; called to Scottish bar 1806; an elder of the Glasite church 1823 to death; Queen’s advocate and solicitor of teinds or tithes 1856; author of Reports of certain remarkable cases in the court of session and trials in the high court of justiciary 1813; Treatise on the law of Scotland on the subject of teinds 1862. d. Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1863.
BUCHANAN, William. b. Glasgow 1777; picture dealer in London; author of Memoirs of painting with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French revolution 2 vols. 1824. d. Glasgow 19 Jany. 1864 aged 86.
BUCHANAN, Rev. William. Licentiate of Church of Scotland; editor of Ayr Observer and subsequently of Edinburgh Courant and Glasgow Courier; author of Verses serious, humorous and satirical 1866. d. Ayr July 1866.
BUCK, Henry. b. Yorkshire; wrote on racing in the Sportsman in London and on billiards under pseud. of “Spot Stroke”; wrote on racing in Daily Telegraph under pseud. of “Hotspur”; a large betting commission agent. d. 25 Jany. 1884.
BUCK, Lewis William (2 son of George Stucley Buck of Moreton, Devonshire). b. 1784; M.P. for Exeter 1826 to 1832, and for North Devon 1839 to 1857; sheriff of Devon 1826. d. 12 Norfolk st. Park lane, London 25 April 1858.