Richard Hannay

Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by Scottish novelist, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir. The character is supposedly based upon Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, from Edinburgh, who was a spy during the Boer War.

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Fictional - Secret agent - Scottish - Novelist - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir - Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside - Edinburgh - Spy - Boer War

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Hannay appears in five novels:

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• The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)
• Greenmantle (1916)
• Mr Standfast (1919)
• The Three Hostages (1924)
• The Island of Sheep (1936)