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
Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs Francis Hugh Dobbs (1838 – 1857), Alexander Fairlie Dobbs (1839 – 1912), Col. Charles Alfred Dobbs (1843 – 1871), Rev. Arthur Macaulay Dobbs (1845 – 1889), Edward Dobbs (1847 – 1918)& George Caldell Dobbs (1849 - 1925), and three daughters, Annie Dobbs, Harriet Dobbs and Jane Margaret Dobbs (1852 – 1910). His mortal remains has been interred in the Redford Cemetery, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland. His epitaph reads: "Soldier of Christ, well done Praise be thy new employ And while eternal ages run Rest in thy saviour's joy" Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs Major General Richard Stewart Dobbs (10 May,