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 Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of London Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of London Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 24 September 1669) was a major-general in the English Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. He was subsequently Lord Mayor of London. Browne was born sometime prior to 1616, to John Browne (alias Moses) of Wokingham in Berkshire and his wife, Anne Beard. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Woodmongers in 1634. In June 1644 Browne became a major general for the parliamentary Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Regiments and set up his headquarters at Abingdon in order to harass the King's