The First Sir Percy The First Sir Percy The First Sir Percy is a 1920 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy featuring Sir Percy Blake, ancestor of Orczy's character The Scarlet Pimpernel. It is a direct sequel to "The Laughing Cavalier", occurring a few months after the events in the first book. It is March 1624 in Holland. Two months earlier, a mercenary/adventurer who calls himself "Diogenes" foiled the plot on the life of the Stadtholder. Now, he has finally met his real father, an English nobleman, and realized his true identity as Sir Percy Blake of Blakeney, heir to a large estate in Sussex.
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