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The Claudians Chapter 1: Somers and Buchanans

John Claudius Loudon and Claudius Buchanan are descendants of the Somers family who were, successively, agricultural workers, miners and weavers. Buchanan leaves home to become a tutor in the west of Scotland. He suffers a romantic disappointment and flees to London. The girl’s family think he is too low-born to marry their daughter. In London, in his own words, Buchanan becomes a sinner. Taking his mother’s advice, he is rescued by the Reverend John Newton, an evangelical anti-slavery campaigner. Newton helps him study theology at Cambridge and to become a chaplain. He is saved, as Newton had been. Working with the Honourable East Company he becomes rich and famous.

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