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Mr John Buchan is a former MP for Combined Scottish Universities.

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Former MP for Combined Scottish Universities

Entered the House of Commons on 29 April 1927 — unknown

Left the House of Commons on 22 May 1935 — unknown

Previous MPs in this constituency

• George Berry
• Henry Craik
• Dugald Cowan
• George Berry
• Henry Craik
• Dugald Cowan
• George Berry
• Dugald Cowan
• Henry Craik
• Dugald Cowan
• Henry Craik
• William Cheyne

Future MPs in this constituency

• George Berry
• Dugald Cowan
• Archibald Skelton
• George Morrison
• John Kerr
• George Morrison
• Archibald Skelton
• Ramsay Macdonald
• John Anderson
• John Boyd-Orr
• John Kerr
• John Boyd-Orr
• John Anderson
• Walter Elliot

Recent appearances

• Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland.: Educational Endowments Commission. 26 Jul 1934

  50. asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether any, decision has yet been reached as to the future of the Educational Endowments Commission for Scotland?

• Civil Estimates and Supplementary Estimate, 1934.: Public Education, Scotland. 18 Jul 1934

  Education is a subject with which I have long been connected, both because of the nature of my constituency and of my own interests. I should like to pay a tribute to the Secretary of State for Scotland for his most interesting and comprehensive speech. Education is an extraordinary subject about which to talk. The counters have been so handed about and so rubbed in the handling that they...

• Orders of the Day — BETTING AND LOTTERIES BILL [Lords]. 27 Jun 1934

  I intervene in this Debate because one section of this Measure, that dealing with greyhound racing, concerns a matter about which I have for long been anxious. Six years ago, when the sport was new, it seemed to me that it was bound to increase rapidly, and that tracks were pretty certain to be built adjoining the great centres of population, and I was alarmed about its unregulated extension....

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