chickenfeet

According to the introduction to the edition of John Buchan's The House of the Four Winds that I am currently reading Buchan was quite good friends with Clydeside labour leader and ILP MP Jimmy Maxton.  Buchan and Maxton were, of course, both MPs and both Scots but their politics were so different that friendship does seem a stretch.  Still connections are connections and while my connection with Buchan doesn't extend beyond reading his books and once or twice drinking beer in the Lord Tweedsmuir pub in Tweed, Ontario I do have a slightly closer connection with Jimmy Maxton having once met his widow, Annie, at an ILP conference in Scarborough.