John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada

Governor General of Canada

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, the 15th since Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation

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After a brief career in law, Buchan simultaneously began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa

Southern Africa

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, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in First World War

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...