Perdita Buchan

The Hon. Perdita Caroline Buchan (born 16 December 1940) is an Anglo-American author and journalist.

As a writer she uses her maiden name, but is also known by her married name of Perdita Buchan Connolly.

Buchan was born in 1940, the eldest child of the Anglo-Scottish author William Buchan (1916–2008), who more than fifty years later became Baron Tweedsmuir, by his first marriage in 1939 to Nesta Irene Crozier (1918–2009), the daughter of Charles Darley Crozier, a barrister. Her parents were divorced in 1946. On her father's side she has four half-sisters and three half-brothers, including John Buchan, 4th Baron Tweedsmuir, the novelist James Buchan, and Ursula Buchan, gardening columnist of The Daily Telegraph. On her mother's side she has a further half-sister, Valerie Gardner, and had a half-brother, Rawdon Perry, now deceased. Her other grandfather was the politician and novelist John Buchan, who had served as a Governor General of Canada. Her father's ancestors include King Henry VII, the first Duke of Argyll, and Lord Bute, an 18th-century British prime minister.

A half-plate photograph of Buchan at the age of one month, with her mother, is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. After her divorce, Buchan's mother married secondly Richard Parry (1916–1989), a Harvard-educated naval officer then working in London for the U.S. Maritime Commission, and later moved with her daughter to the United States. They settled at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, where Nesta Parry had two further children, and at the time of her death was still living there.

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