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 Musgrave, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Musgrave, 1st Baronet (1585 - 6 November 1615) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1611. Musgrave was the son of Christopher Musgrave and his wife Joan Curwen, daughter of Sir Henry Curwen of Workington, Cumberland. He succeeded to the estates of Hartley and Edenhall, Cumberland on the death of his grandfather Sir Simon Musgrave. He was knighted on 25 July 1603 on the coronation of King James I. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Westmorland. He was created baronet on 29 July