Background
Buchan was born in Bristol and educated at the city’s grammar school.
Rural Dean Vicar of Street Mark
Buchan was born in Bristol and educated at the city’s grammar school.
University of Durham.
Following a commission in the Royal Air Force he studied at Street Chad"s College, Durham and was ordained in 1934. After a curacy at Holy Nativity, Knowle, Bristol he became a wartime chaplain in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was Vicar of Street Mark’s with Street Barnabas, Coventry from 1945 to 1959. Rural Dean of Coventry from 1954 to 1963.
And Rector of Baginton from 1963 to 1970.
He was awarded the Silver Acorn for outstanding services to the Scout Movement in 1974.