Alexander Buchanan

Other

Australia: South Australia

Notes

Alexander Buchanan, a pioneering settler in South Australia, was born in Glasgow in 1810, 'the son of a Scots coffee planter in Jamaica'. Online genealogical material identifies him as the son of Alexander Buchanan of Newport, St Mary in Jamaica. LBS has not to date verified this.

Sources

http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?c=5248 [accessed 17/08/2019]. Alexander Buchanan in South Australia was an agent for Frederick Hansborough Dutton, who with his brothers has an entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography as pastoralists, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dutton-frederick-hansborough-2240 [accessed 17/08/2019].