Richard Hannay returns to the front lines and participates in desperate fighting following the Germans' massive, last-ditch effort to win the war. Soon after the end of the war, Hannay marries Mary Lamington, and the following year they have a son, Peter John Hannay. The boy is named after Hannay's two great friends John Scantlebury Blenkiron (an American businessman and spy who had often helped him) and Peter Pienaar ("Mr Standfast"), an old Boer scout who seems to have been a kind of father-figure to him. The family settles in Mary's old home in the Cotswolds, Fosse Manor, Oxfordshire and Hannay (now
Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet (created 1775) have been because he was not posted to Madras, but in 1779 he became Lieutenant-colonel of the 88th Foot and was sent to the West Indies. He was not selected for a seat at the 1780 general election. Leith died of excessive fatigue in Jamaica on 3 October 1780 while commanding an expedition to the Spanish Main. Sir Alexander Leith, 1st Baronet (created 1775) Sir Alexander Charles George Leith, 1st Baronet (1741–1780) was a British soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1780. Leith was the son of Alexander Leith and his wife Anne