Richard Hannay Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps" (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name. In his autobiography, "Memory Hold-the-Door", Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: He also appears as a minor character in: "The Thirty-One Kings" (2017), by
Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs Francis Hugh Dobbs (1838 – 1857), Alexander Fairlie Dobbs (1839 – 1912), Col. Charles Alfred Dobbs (1843 – 1871), Rev. Arthur Macaulay Dobbs (1845 – 1889), Edward Dobbs (1847 – 1918)& George Caldell Dobbs (1849 - 1925), and three daughters, Annie Dobbs, Harriet Dobbs and Jane Margaret Dobbs (1852 – 1910). His mortal remains has been interred in the Redford Cemetery, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland. His epitaph reads: "Soldier of Christ, well done Praise be thy new employ And while eternal ages run Rest in thy saviour's joy" Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs (10 May,