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 Osbaldeston (Attorney General) the conduct of government business impossible. He married firstly Eleanor Westropp, of Yorkshire, who died in 1638, and secondly Mary Nettleton of Thornhill, who outlived him. By his first marriage he had at least five children, but of these only William and Frances are known to have reached adult life. William was the grandfather of Richard Osbaldeston, Bishop of London. Richard Osbaldeston (Attorney General) Sir Richard Osbaldeston (c.1585 – 1640) was an English barrister who became Attorney General for Ireland. He was the great-grandfather of Richard Osbaldeston, Bishop of London. He was born in Lancashire, probably at Sefton. His father