Sir Walter James Buchanan

The Sir Walter Buchanan Scholarship at Epsom College

Heights and Weights

Tables of the relation between height and weight are now common in many countries, and if reasonably used are certainly helpful. It is not that a youth, a man, or woman, of a certain height must closely conform to the weight tabulated, a margin of 15 or 20 per cent, on either side is allowable. Such a table is undoubtedly useful in comparing the recruits or the prisoners it may be of one year (...

Re-Thinking James Buchanan

On Saturday, September 19th, local citizens, historians, Civil War enthusiasts, and the rare college student alike converged at the LancasterHistory.org Campus of History for the second day of the President James Buchanan National Symposium. The theme for the symposium was "The Worlds of Thaddeus Stevens and James Buchanan: Race, Gender, and Politics in the Civil War Era," thus it featured the ...

The tobacco gardens

In 2008 it was closed and dismantled the spectacular Duke Gardens near Princeton University. They were created by the famous heiress Doris Duke, in honor of her father, James Buchanan Duke. This last gentleman caused 100 million deaths during the 20th century. The gardens mentioned demonstrated, perhaps trivially, what was stated by philosopher Walter Benjamin: There has never been a document o...

Doctors in Parliament

Eleven medical men, or at least eleven men holding medical qualifications, sat in the House of Commons in the Parliament of 1900-1905. They comprised three Unionists, Sir Robert Finlay, Sir John Batty Tnke, and Dr. Rntherfoord Harris; four Liberals, Sir Walter Foster, Dr. Farquharson, Dr. Price, and Dr. Hutchinson ; and three Nationalists, Drs. Macdonnell, Ambrose, and Thompson; while the eleve...