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
Patrick Hannay the office of the Irish privy council in Dublin. Attempts, which were for a time successful, were made to oust him from this post, but Charles I reinstated him in 1625 on the grounds of his foreign service and relationship with Queen Anne. In 1627, Hannay became master of chancery in Ireland. He is said to have died at sea in 1629, but records continue until 1630. Hannay is mentioned in John Dunbar's "Epigrammaton Centuriæ Sex", 1616. In 1618–19 appeared "A Happy Husband"; as with Richard Brathwaite's "Good Wife" accompanying it, the work was written in imitation of Thomas Overbury's