Richard Hannay Richard Hannay Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps" (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name. In his autobiography, "Memory Hold-the-Door", Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: He also appears as a minor character in: "The Thirty-One Kings" (2017), by
Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of London Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of London Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet (c. 1610 – 24 September 1669) was a major-general in the English Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. He was subsequently Lord Mayor of London. Browne was born sometime prior to 1616, to John Browne (alias Moses) of Wokingham in Berkshire and his wife, Anne Beard. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Woodmongers in 1634. In June 1644 Browne became a major general for the parliamentary Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire Regiments and set up his headquarters at Abingdon in order to harass the King's