Sir Walter Bullivant up. In the first chapter of the novel, the reader also learns of Bullivant's son Harry Bullivant, who lost his life while spying in the Middle East in the guise of a muleteer. Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "Greenmantle". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff,
Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 3rd Baronet 1 May 1703. He was returned at the general elections in 1705, 1708, 1710, 1713, 1715 and 1722. He did not stand at the 1727 general election. Howe died on 3 July 1730. He had no children and left his main estates in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire to his cousin John Howe, 1st Baron Chedworth of Somerset. Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 3rd Baronet Sir Richard Grobham Howe, 3rd Baronet (c. 1651–1730), of Little Compton, Withington and Chedworth, Gloucestershire, and Great Wishford, Wiltshire, was an English politician who sat in the English House of Commons between 1679 and 1708 and in the