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{{short description|Scottish politician}}
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|term_start1 = 1905
|term_end1 = 1908
|predecessor1 = [[William Bromley-Davenport (1862-19491862–1949)|William Bromley-Davenport]]
|successor1 = [[Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet|Francis Dyke Acland]]
|birth_date = 1868{{Birth date|1846|4|2|df=yes}}
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1911|4|7|1846|4|2}}
|alma_mater = [[Balliol College, Oxford]]
|party = [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]]
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[[File:10 Moray Place, Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|Buchanan's Edinburgh house at 10 Moray Place]]
'''Thomas Ryburn Buchanan''' [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] [[FRSE]] (2 April 1846 – 7 April 1911) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] [[politician]] and [[bibliophile]].
 
==Background and education==
He was born in [[Glasgow]] the son of John Buchanan of [[Dowanhill]]. His brother was the eminent chemist and explorer [[John Young Buchanan]] (1844–1925).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) |author=C D Waterston |author2=A Macmillan Shearer |website=[[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] |isbn=090219884X |date=July 2006 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
He was born in [[Glasgow]] the son of John Buchanan of Dowanhill. His brother was the eminent chemist and explorer [[John Young Buchanan]] (1844-1925).<ref>http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf</ref>
 
He was educated at [[Sherborne School]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. He later became a Fellow of [[All Souls College, Oxford]], and was [[Call to the Bar|called to the Bar]].
 
==Political career==
In 1880 Buchanan unsuccessfully contested [[Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)|Haddington]] in the [[1880 United Kingdom general election, 1880|1880 general election]] but was successfully returned to Parliament for [[Edinburgh (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh]] in an 1881 by-election. This constituency was abolished in 1885 and he was elected for the newly created constituency of [[Edinburgh West (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh West]] as a [[Liberal Unionist]]. However, in 1888 Buchanan announced that he supported [[William Ewart Gladstone]]'s [[Home Rule]] policy. He resigned his seat and was elected by a narrow majority as a Gladstonian and Home Ruler the same year.
 
Buchanan lost the Edinburgh West seat in 1892 but returned to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] in December the same year when he was elected to represent [[Aberdeenshire East (UK Parliament constituency)|Aberdeenshire East]] in a by-election. He lost this seat in the [[1900 United Kingdom general election, 1900|1900 general election]], and remained out of the House of Commons for the next three years. However, in February 1903 he was returned as the member for [[Perthshire East (UK Parliament constituency)|Perthshire East]], a seat he held until 1910. When the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberals]] came to power in December 1905, he was appointed [[Financial Secretary to the War Office]] by Prime Minister [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman|Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman]], a post he retained until April 1908. The latter month he was sworn of the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|Privy Council]] and made [[Under-Secretary of State for India]] by the new Prime Minister, [[H. H. Asquith]]. He remained in this post until June 1909.
 
==Personal life==
Buchanan married Emily Octavia Bolitho, of [[Trengwainton Garden|Trengwainton]], on 15 August 1888 at [[Madron]], [[Penzance]], [[Cornwall]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriages |work=The Cornishman |issue=529 |date=23 August 1888 |page=7}}</ref> They lived at 10 Moray Place on the prestigious [[Moray Estate]] in [[Edinburgh]]'s West End<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1891–92</ref> and 12 South Street in [[Mayfair]]. He was a noted collector of books and manuscripts. Some of his collections were donated by his widow to the [[University of Edinburgh]] and the [[Bodleian Library]], Oxford, after his death. He died on 7 April 1911 in [[Bournemouth]] in [[Hampshire]] and was buried in the churchyard of St Bartholomew's Church at [[Arborfield]] in [[Berkshire]] where his sister lived.
 
He lived at 10 Moray Place on the prestigious Moray Estate in [[Edinburgh]]'s West End.<ref>Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1891-92</ref>
 
He died in April 1911.
 
==References==
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|date=19 February 1888
|work=[[New York Times]]
|url=https://querywww.nytimes.com/gst1888/abstract02/19/archives/the-writing-on-the-wall-a-notable-victory-for-home-rule-in.html?res=940CE1DB173AEF33A2575AC1A9649C94699FD7CF
|accessdate=2008-08-07
}}
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{{s-ttl
| title = [[Edinburgh (UK Parliament constituency)|Member of Parliament for Edinburgh]]
| with = [[James Cowan (Scottish politician)|James Cowan]] 1881&ndash;18821881–1882
| with2 = [[Samuel Danks Waddy]] 1882&ndash;18851882–1885
| years = 1881&ndash;1881–[[1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885|1885]]
}}
{{s-non | reason = Constituency abolished }}
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{{s-ttl
| title = [[Edinburgh West (UK Parliament constituency)|Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West]]
| years = [[1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885|1885]]&ndash;–[[1892 United Kingdom general election, 1892|1892]]
}}
{{s-aft | after = [[William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne|Viscount Wolmer]]}}
{{succession box
| title = [[Aberdeenshire East (UK Parliament constituency)|Member of Parliament for Aberdeenshire East]]
| years = [[United1892 KingdomEast generalAberdeenshire by-election, 1892|1892]]&ndash;–[[1900 United Kingdom general election, 1900|1900]]
| before = [[Peter Esslemont]]
| after = [[Archibald White Maconochie]]
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{{succession box
| title = [[Perthshire East (UK Parliament constituency)|Member of Parliament for Perthshire East]]
| years = [[1903 East Perthshire by-election|1903&ndash;]]–[[January 1910 United Kingdom general election, January 1910|Jan. 1910]]
| before = [[Sir John Kinloch, 2nd Baronet|Sir John Kinloch]]
| after = [[William Young (Scottish politician)|William Young]]
}}
{{s-off}}
{{succession box | title = [[Financial Secretary to the War Office]] | years = 1905&ndash;19081905–1908 | before = [[William Bromley-Davenport (1862-1949)|William Bromley-Davenport]] | after = [[Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet|Francis Dyke Acland]]}}
{{succession box | title = [[Under-Secretary of State for India]] | years = 1908&ndash;19091908–1909 | before = [[Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Baronet|Charles Hobhouse]] | after = [[Alexander Murray, 1st Baron Murray of Elibank|The Master of Elibank]]}}
{{S-end}}
 
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