Graduated in medicine and surgery at Paris University and attended St Andrews University where he graduated M.D. In 1857 brought his family to Auckland, eventually moving to Dunedin where he took up the Patearoa run of 75,000 acres. In 1862 was called to the Legislative Council and was particularly responsible for committee set up in 1871 to consider the establishment of a central asylum for persons of unsound mind. (Source: Dictionary of NZ Biography / Scholefield (Vol 1, pp. 112)).
Buchanan, Andrew (Dr), 1806-1877
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Green, George 1810-1872 : Correspondence and petition
Date: 1868-1869
By: Green, George, active 1860
Reference: qMS-0881
Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.
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Correspondence
Date: Jul-Dec 1858
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-020
Description: Identified persons entered under Name; also includes price list for improved kitchener [sic]; hand-drawn sketch map of Alford Forest area showing property ownership in letter from T W Hall; letter from Robert [?] Gerrard; and marked report in `Wellington independent', Mr Sewell before the House of Commons', 25 Aug 1858 Other - See also diary MSX-2665 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Correspondence
Date: Oct-Dec 1872
From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-1784-067
Description: Identified correspondents entered under Name below; also includes letter from J or T [?] Strauts, Christchurch, seeking employment; one from Henry [?] Orbell, Dunedin, also seeking employment; and letter from A [?] Cotton, Lake Coleridge. Also booklet of applications for appointments listing F H Hall, Mangawai, F A Pulleine, Grahamstown, Captain William Baldwin, Geo Leslie Lee, Rangiora, Dr Buchanan, Dunedin, C Hunter Brown, Nelson, I or J H Beale, Grafton Road, Auckland, S S Field, Templeton, Canterbury and I or J Aylmer, Ross, Westland. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Applications for registration under the Medical Practitioners' Act 1867 - B
Date: 1868-1869
From: Medical Council of New Zealand : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-9023-41
Description: Applicant's names entered in Name Field Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss
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Inward letters - Surnames, Bro - Buc
Date: 1856-1875, n d
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0187
Description: Correspondents: Includes letters from Browning of Auckland, 1863 (1 letter); A Bruce, Sydney, 1874 (1 letter); Thomas Brunner, Nelson, 1856 & 1873 (2 letters); John Bryce, Wellington, 1871 & 1875 (2 letters); A Buchanan, Clovernook, 1861 (1 letter); John Buchanan, Wellington & Elsthorpe, 1866-1871, undated (6 letters); E C Buck, Wellington, 1875 (1 letter); George Buck, Auckland, 1860 (1 letter); Alfred Buckland, Auckland, 1860 (1 letter); W Buckland (to Aitken), Auckland, 1873 (1 letter); W H Buckle, Co. Galway, Ireland (on behalf of Miss Frances McCabe re death of her brother in NZ and the McCabe family circumstances), 1860s. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Photographer unknown :Portrait of the Hon Dr Buchanan
Date: 1860 - 1877
Reference: PA2-2427
Description: Andrew Buchanan (1806-1877) was born in Jamaica and educated at Sherborne and at Paris University where he graduated in medicine and surgery. He attended St Andrews University and graduated with M.D. In 1857 he brought his family to New Zealand. In 1958 gave evidence before a Parliamentary Committee on lunatic asylums. He moved to Dunedin where he took up the Patearoa run of 75,000 acres, extending from the Lammerlaws to Sowburn point. In 1862 he was called to the Legislative Council in which body he did good service in various measures of social reform. He was particulary responsible for the Committee which was set up in 1871 to consider the establishment of a central asylum for persons of unsound mind. In 1874 he retired from the Council and returned to live in England where he died. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).