Admin History | Eric Buchanan was born in 1848 and attended Wellington College, where he was a Queen's Medallist. He married in 1898 Constance Augusta (d 1914), daughter of Captain Charles Edmund Tennant, RN, of Needwood House, Burton-on-Trent, who had died in a tragic shooting accident.
Sir Eric had two children: Sir Charles James Buchanan, 4th baronet (1899-1984) and Mary Constance Victoria (Mamie) who married Thomas Garret Mayhew, son of Thomas Mayhew of The Lodge, Hythe, Kent.
Eric Buchanan died in London in 1928. |
Custodial History | The collection was transferred to Manuscripts and Special Collections in 2007. |