Buchanan, Claudius, born at Cambuslang, near Glasgow, chaplain in Barrackpur under the East India Company, vice-provost of the College at Fort William, Calcutta; one of the first to awaken an interest in India as a missionary field; wrote “Christian Researches in Asia” (1756‒1815).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Buchan * Buchanan, George