Richard Hannay

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Richard Hannay
First appearance
Charles Edwards (stage)
Sam Robards
(stage)
Jorge de Juan (stage)
Christophe Laubion (stage)
Daniel Llewelyn-Williams (stage)
Andrew Alexander (stage)
Brian Smolin (stage)
Todd Waite (stage)
Keegan Colcleasure (stage)
In-universe information
GenderMale
OccupationSoldier
Spy
NationalityBritish

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay,

spy during the Second Boer War, and a British Army field marshal and CIGS.[1]

Novels

By Buchan

Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including:

He also appears as a minor character in:

By other authors

Robert J. Harris has written The Thirty-One Kings (2017) which purports to be the beginning of a new series called "Richard Hannay Returns" about his adventures during World War II; however the next book in the series, Castle Macnab (2018), is set in the 1920s.

In Combined Forces (1985), a humorous novel by Jack Smithers, Hannay teams up after World War II with the similar heroes "Sapper"'s Bulldog Drummond and Dornford Yates' Jonah Mansel.[2]

  • Thirty-Nine Steps From Baker Street (J. R. Trtek, 2015, 978-1-51715-300-7)

Radio, film, television and theatre

Hannay has been portrayed in four film versions of The Thirty Nine Steps respectively, by actors

ITV series Hannay
(1988–1989).

Suspense in 1952.[3]

The 1973

Omnibus: The British Hero had Christopher Cazenove playing Hannay in a scene from Mr. Standfast, as well as a number of other such heroic characters, including Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond. Barry Foster played Hannay in a 1977 television adaptation of The Three Hostages
.

In the 2000s, BBC Radio 4 adapted four of the Hannay books, each starring David Robb: The Thirty-Nine Steps (2001),[4] Greenmantle (2005),[5] Mr Standfast (2008)[6] and The Three Hostages (2009).[7]

Playwright

Helen Hayes Theatre on 21 January 2009, where it ended its run on 10 January 2010. It reopened at off-Broadway venue New World Stages
on 25 March 2010. The London show closed on 5 September 2015 after nine years in the West End. In this theatrical adaptation, the character's full name is given as Richard Charles Arbuthnot Hannay.

Character biography based on the Buchan canon

As revealed through the various novels, Richard Hannay was born in Scotland about 1877;

Boer War.[11] He goes to England in 1914,[8] shortly before the events of The Thirty-Nine Steps
.

The

major-general, he 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

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 a KCB) finds peace and enjoyment as a farmer. However, in 1920 or 1921, Hannay again finds himself in an adventure, this time with his wife's help unravelling a kidnapping mystery in The Three Hostages
.

His last adventure, The Island of Sheep, occurs some 12 years later when Hannay, now in his fifties, is called by an old oath to protect the son of a man he once knew, who safeguards the secret of the greatest treasure on earth. This book also focuses on Hannay's son, Peter John, now a bright but solemn teenager.

Though the Hannay books stop short of the

Second World War, Buchan's last novel, Sick Heart River (published just after the author died in 1940) offers a hint about Hannay's future: dying in Canada, Hannay's friend Sir Edward Leithen
hears of the outbreak of war in Europe and guesses that many of his old friends, including Hannay, will have taken up arms again.

See also

References

  1. ^ historytoday.com
  2. ISBN 0-246-12968-9
    .
  3. ^ mercurytheatre.info
  4. ^ "John Buchan - The 39 Steps". BBC.
  5. ^ "John Buchan - Greenmantle". BBC.
  6. ^ "John Buchan - Mr Standfast". BBC.
  7. ^ "John Buchan - The Three Hostages". BBC.
  8. ^ a b c d ch 1,
  9. ^ a b c ch 2,
  10. ^ The Runagates Club, Ch. 1.
  11. ^ ch 3,

External links

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