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 Musgrave, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet (1585 - 6 November 1615) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1611. Musgrave was the son of Christopher Musgrave and his wife Joan Curwen, daughter of Sir Henry Curwen of Workington, Cumberland. He succeeded to the estates of Hartley and Edenhall, Cumberland on the death of his grandfather Sir Simon Musgrave. He was knighted on 25 July 1603 on the coronation of King James I. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland. He was created baronet on 29 July