Sir Walter Bullivant up. In the first chapter of the novel, the reader also learns of Bullivant's son Harry Bullivant, who lost his life while spying in the Middle East in the guise of a muleteer. Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "Greenmantle". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff,
James Ballantyne Hannay diamond existed, who took a great personal interest in them. In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Thomas Edward Thorpe, William Dittmar, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin and Alexander Crum Brown. In the later years of his life Hannay turned away from scientific investigation and moved his attention to examining aspects of the origin and development of religion and published a number of works critical of the Hebrew Scriptures. James Ballantyne Hannay died in 1931. A collection of archives relating to Hannay was collected by Sir Robert Robertson. These were given to