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 Luce (surgeon) as being a man who had "exceptional energy and enthusiasm but was always courteous, modest and kindly in demeanour". His great-great-niece is actress and comedian Miranda Hart. Richard Luce (surgeon) Major-General Sir Richard Harman Luce (13 July 1867 – 21 February 1952) was a medical doctor who during World War I served as the Director of Medical Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and was promoted to the rank of Major-General. He was elected MP for Derby in 1924. Sir Richard Luce, as he became, was for many years the senior surgeon and later the consulting surgeon to the Derbyshire