Walter Buchannan

Walter Buchannan MP
Born	1797
Died	1883
Residence	Glasgow and Fenton's Hotel St James's Street [1862]
Occupation	political
Society Membership membership ESL Ordinary Fellow left 1863 last listed elected_ESL 1863.06.02

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Walter Buchanan
1797-1883
Buchanan was born on 30 January 1797, son of Andrew Buchanan, a Baltic merchant who lived in Glasgow's St Andrew Square. The family moved to Hamburg, and by the age of 21 Walter Buchanan had sole charge of his father's business.
In 1824, after returning to Glasgow, Buchanan began trading in partnership with James Hamilton. Business improved with the end of the East India Company's monopoly of the Indian and tea trades in 1833, although financial disaster struck in 1865. A political career saw Buchanan thrice elected as an MP (Whig) for Glasgow between 1857 and 1865.
He lived at Shandon, on the Gare Loch, for 40 years, and read widely in Latin, French, German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish. In 1824 he married Mary Hamilton, who died in 1844 leaving one daughter. He married Christina Laura in 1851, but she died in the following year, again leaving a daughter.