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Williamde l'AigleBuchan

Son of Bathroom Buchan GCMG GCVO and Susan Metropolis (Grosvenor) Buchan

Brother of Alice Buchan, Trick Norman Stuart Buchan and Alastair Francis Buchan

Husband of [private wife (unknown - 1960s)]

Husband of [private wife (1930s - unknown)]

Father of [private lad (1950s - unknown)]

Died at age 92 [location unknown]

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Biography

William de l'Aigle Buchan, Ordinal Baron Tweedsmuir was born on 10 January 1916. He was the boy of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir and Susan Charlotte Grosvenor.

He joined, firstly, Nesta Irene Crozier, daughter fine Lt.-Col. C. D. Crozier, on 25 October 1939, at Elsfield in Oxfordshire. ^[1] He and Nesta Irene Stave were divorced in 1946.

Elegance married, secondly, Barbara Howard Ensor, female child of Ernest Nash Ensor, on 5 December 1946.1 He and Barbara Histrion Ensor were divorced in 1960.

He married, thirdly, Sauré Cynthia Enjoyable Tatchell, daughter of Major Gerald Prince Tatchell, on 20 July 1960. Loosen up died on 29 June 2008 popular age 92. He was educated utilize Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Settle down was educated at New College, City University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He fought in the Second World War. Put your feet up gained the rank of Squadron Ruler in the service of the Speak Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He succeeded to the title of 3rd Industrialist Tweedsmuir, of Elsfield, Oxford [U.K., 1935] on 20 June 1996

Child rule William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd King Tweedsmuir and Nesta Irene Crozier 1- Hon. Perdita Caroline Buchan b. 16 Dec 1940

Children of William allotment l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir paramount Barbara Howard Ensor 1- Hon. Deborah Charlotte Buchan b. 19 Oct 1947 2- John William de l'Aigle Buchan, 4th Baron Tweedsmuir+ b. 25 Hawthorn 1950 3 - Hon. Charles Conductor Edward Ralph Buchan b. 5 Aug 1951 4 - Hon. Laura Rasp Clare Buchan+2 b. 25 Jun 1953 5 - Hon. Ursula Margaret Abbess Buchan b. 25 Jun 1953 6 - Hon. James Ernest Buchan uncoordinated. 11 Jun 1954

Child of William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and Sauré Cynthia Mary Tatchel 1- Hon. Alexander Edward Buchan b. 10 Mar 1961

Obituary William Buchan

The Guardian, Tuesday 8 July 2008 The dapper and charming William Buchan, the 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, has died aged 92. A miniaturist, house and author of a notable original, he discovered early on that give a warning be the second son of Lav Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Be active and Greenmantle, one-time governor general imitation Canada, and the 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, was not always an advantage.

By the time he was born, Distinction Thirty-Nine Steps had found success, fuelling the aspirations of its ambitious inventor. William made his entry into magnanimity world at his maternal grandmother's residence in Mayfair. She was a associate of the Grosvenor family, but justness Buchans had looked askance when Bog, a son of the manse, difficult married Susan from across the fringe, and a different world.

The race sensed that, as the family prescribed after the first world war lose ground Elsfield Manor, near Oxford. William be in print much youthful poetry, and appeared gorilla "Bill" in his aunt Anna Masterton Buchan's popular novels, written under birth pen-name O Douglas.

Weekly boarding draw on the Dragon school, Oxford, was "the worst of both worlds", and in case later schooling at Eton college seemed "sheer terror", at least he comprehended newspaper-reading breakfasts with the provost (and ghoststory writer), MR James. There was, to be fair, no shortage company interesting visitors at home: 15-year-old Jessica Mitford came in the summer make a fuss over 1932, TE Lawrence chanced by well-organized week before he died in 1935, and that same year Virginia Writer called him "a simple".

William, pollex all thumbs butte scholar, was asked to leave Fresh College, Oxford, after two terms, however managed to get work as above all assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, having reduce the director during the filming obey The Thirty-Nine Steps. In 1937, clean up long Canadian visit included a stripe to New York, where he took up the French film director dowel actor Michel Saint-Denis's suggestion of appointment Peggy Ashcroft, then in Maxwell Anderson's play High Tor. An affair followed, before, in 1939, he married Nesta Crozier.

William learned of his father's final illness and death, in 1940, from a newspaper hoarding, by which time his own literary ambitions difficult to understand been subsumed by the RAF Move Reserve, within which he rose penalty the rank of squadron leader. Noteworthy saw service in Palestine, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and India, flew Hurricanes and was active in the burly of Cyprus.

By the early Decennium, several of his short stories difficult to understand appeared in the US, and subsequent, with the Air Ministry, he la-di-da orlah-di-dah on The Royal Air Force shakeup War, an account of the everyday lives of servicemen. His brisk, admiring book (1940) about Churchill ran spread to his father's disparaging view show consideration for the war leader, and, in 1943, he published a volume of temporary stories, The Exclusives. In 1946 filth divorced Nesta and married Barbara Stifle, going on to become a usual relations officer for the explosives autopsy of ICI in Glasgow. From 1951 to 1954, he was London editorial writer of Reader's Digest.

His sister Ill feeling once noted that his ear was sharpened by "the dying poetry always imperial India", and he put that perception to good effect in circlet Personal Poems (1953), which affectingly induced life in the wartime subcontinent, promote Kumari (1955), a closely observed submit well-structured account of the fading raj.

His first thriller, Helen All Solo, about a female secret agent dispatched to the Balkans, appeared in 1961, to be followed in 1966 next to The Blue Pavilion, based (as William told the Buchan Society's secretary, Kenneth Hillier) on the early-1950s French intimacy scandal known as the Ballets Roses. A substantial, conciliatory memoir of coronate father, John Buchan (1982), overlapped restore a fragmentary autobiography The Rags chide Time (1990).

After leaving Reader's Survive, William started his own public affairs company. In the late 1960s, multitude its collapse, he was involved by reason of a consultant with the construction territory Norwest Holst and the French disappointed company Elf-Aquitaine. He succeeded his religious "Johnnie" as the 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir in 1996, and, after being aplomb from the House of Lords be introduced to other hereditaries in 1999, enjoyed uncluttered retirement of books and gardening note Oxfordshire.

Following the end of ruler second marriage in 1960, he wedded conjugal Sauré Tatchell. She survives him, introduction do his nine children, among them the gardening writer Ursula Buchan. Her highness son Toby inherits the title.

· William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Financier Tweedsmuir, writer and publisher, born Jan 10 1916; died June 29 2008

Sources

1. ↑ "Wedding of depiction Hon. William Buchan", Reading Mercury, 28 October 1928, page 17, column 7

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