Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet GCB, PC (7 May 1807 – 12 November 1882) was a British diplomat and baronet.
Buchanan was the only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadoch, Ardinconnal, Dumbartonshire, and Janet, eldest daughter of James Sinclair, 12th Earl of Caithness. He entered the diplomatic service 10 October 1825, and was attached to the embassy at Constantinople.
On 13 November 1830 he was named paid attaché at Rio de Janeiro, but he did not ...
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Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet GCB, PC (7 May 1807 – 12 November 1882) was a British diplomat and baronet.
Buchanan was the only son of James Buchanan of Blairvadoch, Ardinconnal, Dumbartonshire, and Janet, eldest daughter of James Sinclair, 12th Earl of Caithness. He entered the diplomatic service 10 October 1825, and was attached to the embassy at Constantinople.
On 13 November 1830 he was named paid attaché at Rio de Janeiro, but he did not remain long in South America, as he served temporarily with Sir Stratford Canning's special embassy to Constantinople from 31 October 1831 till 18 September 1832, after which he became paid attaché at Washington on 9 November He was with Sir Charles Vaughan's special mission to Constantinople from March 1837 to September 1838, and then proceeded to St. Petersburg as paid attaché 6 October of the same year.
Few men seem to have gone through a greater number of changes in the diplomatic service; he was secretary of legation at Florence 24 August...
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