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
Allen Burroughs Hannay Allen Burroughs Hannay Allen Burroughs Hannay (February 14, 1892 – October 22, 1983) was a United States federal judge. Born in Hempstead, Texas, Hannay received an LL.B. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1913. He was in private practice in Hempstead and Houston from 1913 to 1930. He was a judge in Waller County, Texas from 1915 to 1917. He was a state district judge in the 113th Judicial District of Texas from 1930 to 1942. On July 16, 1942, Hannay was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court