Charles Lamancha

	Charles Lamancha Charles Lamancha is a fictional character who appears in several novels by John Buchan. He was a war veteran, a noble and a Minister of the Crown. He is a good friend of John Palliser-Yeates and Edward Leithen. Appearances ''John Macnab'' (1925) '' The Gap in the Curtain'' ''The House of the Four Winds'' ''A Prince of the Captivity'' ''The Runagates Club'' ''The Island of Sheep ''The Island of Sheep'' is a 1936 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, the last of his novels to focus on his characters Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot. It was published in the United States under the title ''The Man from the Norlands ...'' (1936) (brief mention only) {{John Buchan John Buchan characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	John Buchan John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort during the First World War. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities in 1927, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing '' The Thirty-Nine Steps'' and other adventure fiction. In 1935, King George V, on the advice of Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, appointed Buchan to replace the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General of Canada, for which purpose Buchan was raised to the peerage. He occupied the post until his death in 1940. Buchan was enthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Palliser-Yeates John Palliser-Yeates is a fictional character created by John Buchan. He appears in several Buchan novels, notably ''John Macnab''. He is a banker and sportsman, and an old school friend of Edward Leithen and Charles Lamancha. Appearances ''John Macnab'' (1925) ''The Runagates Club'' ''The Three Hostages'' ''The Courts of the Morning ''The Courts of the Morning'' is a 1929 adventure novel by John Buchan, featuring his character Sandy Arbuthnot. The prologue is narrated by Richard Hannay, so the novel is sometimes included in Buchan's Hannay series. The action is set in Oli ...'' (1929) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Palliser, John John Buchan characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Edward Leithen Sir Edward Leithen is a fictional character in several of John Buchan's novels: ''The Power-House'', ''John Macnab'', '' The Dancing Floor'', '' The Gap in the Curtain'' and ''Sick Heart River''. These were published over a number of years, the first in 1916 (although "The Power House" was originally published in a magazine in 1913), and the last in 1941, one year after Buchan's death. Leithen's name is borrowed from the Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed, one of many references to the Scottish Borders in Buchan's novels. He also appears in ''The Return of John MacNab'' by Andrew Greig in a 1990s retelling of ''John Macnab''. Career In the books, Leithen is a Scottish barrister and a Conservative politician (and MP) and, at one point, an Attorney General. He is also described as an excellent fly fisherman (which forms an important part of ''John MacNab''.). He served in the British Army during World War I, starting as a private in the Grenadier Guards and ending as a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Macnab ''John Macnab'' is a novel by John Buchan, published in 1925. Plot summary Three successful but bored friends in their mid-forties decide to turn to poaching. They are Sir Edward Leithen, lawyer, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), and ex-Attorney General; John Palliser-Yeates, banker and sportsman; and Charles, Earl of Lamancha, former adventurer and present Conservative Cabinet Minister. Under the collective name of "John Macnab", they set up in the Highland home of Sir Archie Roylance, a disabled war hero who wishes to be a Conservative MP. They issue a challenge to three of Roylance's neighbours: first the Radens, who are an old-established family, about to die out; next, the Bandicotts: an American archaeologist and his son, who are renting a grand estate for the summer while excavating the tomb of Harald Blacktooth; and lastly the Claybodys, vulgar, be-kilted ''nouveaux riches''. These neighbours are forewarned that "John Macnab" will poach a salmon or a stag from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Gap In The Curtain ''The Gap in the Curtain'' is a 1932 borderline science fiction novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. Part of the action is autobiographical, featuring the agonies of a contemporary up-and-coming politician. It explores the theory of serial time put forward by J W Dunne: Buchan had been reading ''An Experiment with Time''.Peake, Anthony''Time and the Rose Garden: Exploring the Magical in the Life and Works of J B Priestley''(2018) Plot Buchan's novel opens with the narrator, Sir Edward Leithen, being introduced at a house party to the brilliant physicist and mathematician professor Moe. Moe has been working on a new theory of time, and believes he has found a way of enabling people to see, as if through a 'gap in the curtain', details of a future event. He enlists several of the house party guests into an experiment. For several days, each has to apply his whole concentration to anticipate what will be printed on a chosen page of ''The Times'' newspaper exactly one year hen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The House Of The Four Winds ''The House of the Four Winds'' is a 1935 adventure novel by the Scots author John Buchan. It is a Ruritanian romance, and the last of his three Dickson McCunn books. The novel is set in the fictional Central European country of Evallonia and opens two years after the events recounted in '' Castle Gay''. Plot introduction At the beginning of the novel several characters formerly seen in '' Huntingtower'' and '' Castle Gay'' are about to go to Europe for the summer: Dickson McCunn to a German Kurhaus for his health; Alison Westwater to join her parents Lord and Lady Rhynns at Unnutz in Germany; Archie Roylance to attend a dull conference in Geneva along with his wife Janet; John 'Jaikie' Galt on a walking tour; and Dougal Crombie on a mission for his newspaper. Plot While on his walking tour Jaikie meets Randal Glynde - now proprietor of the Cirque Doré - who encourages him to visit Evallonia, and arranges for him to meet one of the leading monarchists, Prince Odalchini, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	A Prince Of The Captivity ''A Prince of the Captivity'' is a 1933 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. Plot The hero of the novel is Adam Melfort, who marries young to a beautiful but mindless socialite who cannot return his love for her. When she forges her wealthy uncle's signature on a cheque, he takes the blame to save her family's name, and is jailed, losing his army commission in the process. He allows her to divorce him so that she can remarry someone of more similar mind. Released from gaol during World War I, he is recruited as an undercover agent behind enemy lines in Belgium, and later leads an expedition to Greenland to rescue a wealthy American millionaire explorer whose own expedition has met disaster. Background The Greenland expedition episode in the novel was inspired by German scientist Alfred Wegener Alfred Lothar Wegener (; ; 1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher. During his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Runagates Club ''The Runagates Club'' is a 1928 collection of short stories by the Scottish author John Buchan. The collection consists of twelve tales presented as reminiscences of members of ''The Runagates Club'', a London dining society. Several of the stories are recounted by recurrent characters in Buchan’s fiction, including Richard Hannay, Sandy Arbuthnot, John Palliser-Yeates, Charles Lamancha, and Edward Leithen. Contents The stories are entitled: * ''The Green Wildebeest'': Sir Richard Hannay’s Story * ''The Frying Pan and the Fire'': The Duke of Burminster’s Story 1. ''The Frying-Pan'' 2. ''The Fire'' * ''Dr Lartius'': Mr Palliser-Yeates’s Story * ''The Wind in the Portico'': Mr Henry Nightingale's Story * ''’Divus’ Johnston'': Lord Lamancha's Story * ''The Loathly Opposite'': Major Oliver Pugh's Story * ''Sing a Song of Sixpence'': Sir Edward Leithen's Story * ''Ship to Tarshish'': Mr Ralph Collatt's Story * ''Skule Skerry'': Mr Anthony Hurrell's Story * '''Ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	The Island Of Sheep ''The Island of Sheep'' is a 1936 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, the last of his novels to focus on his characters Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot. It was published in the United States under the title ''The Man from the Norlands''. Plot summary The action occurs twelve years later on from the last novel, when Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who is also heir to the secret of a great treasure. He obtains help from Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden, and Lombard. The action takes place in England, in Scotland and on the Island of Sheep, which is in what Buchan calls the Norlands: clearly the Faroe Islands. There are several stereotypical villains, in particular D'Ingraville from ''The Courts of the Morning'', and the book also focuses on Hannay's son, Peter John, now a bright but solemn teenager. In Book I Richard Hannay is on his way down to the Solent to lay up his yacht. He has heard a speech in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]