Hannay (TV series) Hannay (TV series) Hannay was a 1988 ITV television series, a spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps". The film and series starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay. In the series, Powell reprised the role of Hannay, an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin. It features his adventures in pre-World War I Great Britain. These stories had little in common with John Buchan's novels about the character, although some character names are taken from his other novels. There were two series, the first with six episodes, the second with seven. "Hannay" was
Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet years, dying in 1756. Richard Vyvyan married Mary Vivian of Trewan Hall in the parish of St Columb Major. They had 6 sons and 4 daughters He died in Mawgan-in-Meneage, Cornwall in 1736. Sir Richard Vyvyan, 3rd Baronet Sir Richard Vyvyan of Trelowarren, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1681 – 1724) was a prominent Jacobite. Richard Vyvyan was born in Colan, Cornwall. In 1697 he married a distant cousin, Mary Vivian, of Trewan Hall, St Columb Major, this uniting two branches of the family which had been separated for three centuries. Sir Richard Vyvyan was involved in the Jacobite uprising in