John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir

He has been described as a "brilliant fisherman and naturalist, a gallant soldier and fine writer of English, an explorer, colonial administrator and man of business.

After a period in the Colonial Administrative Service in Uganda he contracted dysentery and was forced to leave Africa on health grounds.

[3] In September 1939 at the onset of war, he joined the Governor General's Foot Guards in Canada, and was with the first Canadian troopship to reach England in December 1939.

In 1941 he saw active service with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment (with whom he started as second in command), ultimately in Sicily for which he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours.

[4] Farley Mowat, who served as an infantryman in the HPE Regiment, described Tweedsmuir, newly in command (due to his predecessor, Bruce Sutcliff, having been killed).

He thereupon decided that the battalion would make a right flank march by night across the intervening trackless gullies to the foot of the great cliff, scale that precipitous wall and, just at dawn, take the summit by surprise."

He led scientific expeditions to Libya and St Ninians Island and was 21 years President of the British Schools Exploring Society.

[6] With Priscilla, who sat in the House of Lords suo jure as The Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, they jointly created the Protection of Birds Act 1954.