# Dedication explained — Huntingtower

> Chapter companion for Huntingtower by John Buchan.

## What happens

The author dedicates the story to W. P. Ker, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and traces the ancestry of the hero Dickson McCunn back to the Nicol Jarvies, linking him to Rob Roy and the Gorbals Die-Hards.

## Character check-ins

### Dickson McCunn

The hero whose ancestry is traced in the dedication.

## Key lines

> If the Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford has not forgotten the rock whence he was hewn, this simple story may give him an hour of entertainment.

The author hopes the professor will enjoy this story if he remembers his roots.

_Opening address to W. P. Ker._

> In his veins there flows a portion of the redoubtable blood of the Nicol Jarvies.

Dickson McCunn is a descendant of the Nicol Jarvies.

_Ancestral connection established._

## Links

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