Alexander Fairley Buchan

1904 - 1976


Alexander Buchan graduated from Edinburgh University and worked as a teacher at the Royal High School and Gillespie's High School for Girls in Edinburgh. In World War II he was the Commandant of the Air Training Corps in Scotland. He went on to become a lecturer at Moray House College of Education.
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