Fop meaning had been blunted by this time. In the 1900s (decade), fictional heroes began to pose as fops to conceal their true activities. Sir Percy Blakeney of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" is a well-known example of this tendency; Sir Percy cultivates the image of being an overdressed and ineffectual social butterfly, the last person anyone would imagine being capable of dashing heroism. A similar image is cultivated by Zorro's public identity, Don Diego de la Vega. This continued with the pulp fiction and radio heroes of the 1920s and 1930s and expanded with the coming of comic books. The fashion and
Richard Blakeney being dismissed by Khadim Hussain. He was promoted Major 21 October 1935 and transferred to the Special Unemployed List on 1 June 1936. At some point later he moved the Australia, where he died in Melbourne, Victoria in 1984, although the exact date isn't known. Richard Blakeney Major Stephen Richard St Leger Blakeney (31 March 1897 – 1984) was an Irish cricketer who was born at Dublin. During the First World War Blakeney served in the Indian Army and was commissioned on 30 January 1917 to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant from the Quetta Cadet College. Now attached to the