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
Richard Shelton (solicitor general) 1644 and otherwise lived there apparently without incident throughout the Civil War and died there in December 1647. He was buried at West Bromwich on 7 December. He and his wife Lettice, the daughter of Sir Robert Fisher of Packington, had no children and the manor eventually passed to their nephew, John Shelton. Albert Frederick Pollard. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol 52. Richard Shelton (solicitor general) Sir Richard Shelton (died 1647) was an English lawyer and politician who served as Solicitor General between 1625 and 1634. Richard Shelton (or Sheldon or Shilton) was the elder of the two sons