Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "Greenmantle". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff, acutely conscious of his duty, yet thoughtful and kindly towards those he sends into peril. In "Greenmantle", he recruits Hannay to perform a dangerous mission in the East as the Great Game heats
Richard Luce (surgeon) as being a man who had "exceptional energy and enthusiasm but was always courteous, modest and kindly in demeanour". His great-great-niece is actress and comedian Miranda Hart. Richard Luce (surgeon) Major-General Sir Richard Harman Luce (13 July 1867 – 21 February 1952) was a medical doctor who during World War I served as the Director of Medical Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and was promoted to the rank of Major-General. He was elected MP for Derby in 1924. Sir Richard Luce, as he became, was for many years the senior surgeon and later the consulting surgeon to the Derbyshire