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
David Hannay (historian) World War I. He contributed articles to the "Pall Mall Gazette", the "Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art", and the "St James's Gazette". He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. David Hannay (historian) David McDowall Hannay (25 December 185329 May 1934) was an English naval historian. Hannay was born in London. His father, James Hannay, had been in the Royal Navy, but later became a journalist and novelist. David Hannay was educated at Westminster School, and then joined his father, who was British consul in Barcelona, as vice-consul. Over a period of years he wrote on naval topics