Baron Tweedsmuir, of Elsfield in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

. It was created in 1935 for the author and Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 politician John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....

. He served as Governor-General of Canada from 1935 to his death in 1940. His eldest son, the second Baron, was the husband of the Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

 politician Lady Tweedsmuir

Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir

Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir and Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC was a Unionist and Conservative politician....

. the title is held by the second Baron's nephew, the fourth Baron, who succeeded his father in 2008.

The first Baron was brought up in the Tweed Valley

River Tweed

The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, is long and flows primarily through the Borders region of Great Britain. It rises on Tweedsmuir at Tweed's Well near where the Clyde, draining northwest, and the Annan draining south also rise. "Annan, Tweed and Clyde rise oot the ae hillside" as the Border saying...

 in the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the non-metropolitan counties of Northumberland...

 at Broughton close to the village of Tweedsmuir

Tweedsmuir

The village of Tweedsmuir is a village and civil parish situated from the source of the River Tweed, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland....

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Barons Tweedsmuir (1935)

• John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....
  
   (1875–1940)
• John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir
  John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir CBE, CD was a Scottish Peer and the son of John Buchan, 1st 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."...
  
   (1911–1996)
• William de l'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir
  William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir
  William James de L'Aigle Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir , also known as "William Tweedsmuir", was an English peer and author of novels, short stories, memoirs and verse...
  
   (1916–2008)
• John William de l'Aigle Buchan, 4th Baron Tweedsmuir (b. 1950)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son the Hon. John Alasdair Gawain Buchan (b. 1986)