Andrew Buchanan

Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier (1690–1759) was a Scottish tobacco merchant who was one of Glasgow's "Tobacco Lords". He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1740 to 1742. Buchanan Street in Glasgow is named after him. Background and early life Born on 29 January 1691, Andrew Buchanan was the second of four sons of George Buchanan, a maltster, and Mary Maxwell, the daughter of Gabriel Maxwell, a respected Glasgow merchant. His father had been a Covenanter who had fought at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge who descended from a branch of the old family of Buchanan of Buchanan and Leny. In his youth, he shared lodgings with Rev Robert Carrick, then a Divinity student. Rev Robert Carrick's son, also Robert Carrick became a rich banker, and later left his entire fortune in gratatude to the nephew of Andrew Buchanan, David Buchanan. In appreciation of this windfall, he changed the family to Carrick-Buchanan. Life In 1725, with his brothers Neil and Archibald Buchanan, he founded the Buchanan Society a charity which gave financial help to apprentices and widows of the Buchanan clan. The Society still exists and provides hardship and educational grants to those of the clan and its septs.