BUCHAN

Henry David Erskine , 12 Earl of. b. July 1783; succeeded 19 April 1829. d. 8 St. Agnes Villas, Bays water, London 13 Sep. 1857. BUCHAN, Peter . b. Peter head 1790; a printer there 1816 to death; author of The recreation of leisure hours being songs and verses in the Scottish dialect 1814; Annals of Peter head 1819; Treatise proving that brutes have souls and are immortal 1824; Ancient ballads and songs of the North of Scotland hitherto unpublished 2 vols. 1828 and many other works. d. London 19 Sep. 1854. W. Anderson’s Scottish nation iii , 691–3 (1863).