* Spy Fiction Iliad, Henry V, The Spy, The Riddle of the Sands, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle

The awards were created by the Lord Tweedsmuir, himself the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

He wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps and other adventure fiction.

He continued to write fiction, and in 1915 published his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps, a spy-thriller set just prior to World War I.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a novel by John Buchan, first serialized in 1915.

Earlier alumni include Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Clavell, highwayman and author, Colin Cowdrey, English Test batsman, William Webb Ellis, often credited with the invention of Rugby football, John Foxe author of Actes and Monuments popularly abridged as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury.

His characterisation did indeed prove to be enduring, as almost ten years later a television series entitled simply Hannay appeared with Powell back in the role, ( although the Buchan short stories on which the series was based were set in an earlier period than The Thirty-Nine Steps ).

At first glance, The Black Island ( 1937 – 1938 ) is a simple thriller with Tintin in pursuit of money forgers, with the chase to Scotland giving it a feel of Alfred Hitchcock's movie version of The Thirty-Nine Steps.

The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1915 ) is an early thriller by John Buchan, in which an innocent man becomes the prime suspect in a murder case and finds himself on the run from both the police and enemy spies.

Lord Tweedsmuir, then Governor General and himself the noted author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, presented the awards.

* The Thirty-Nine Steps

* The Thirty-Nine Steps — When Victoria comes in the hotel room, she asks to move from the door and window, and close the drapes ; She then kisses him when someone comes in, similar to the train situation.

This film's plot device of a wrongly accused man was one that Hitchcock used throughout his career, in such films as The Thirty-Nine Steps, Saboteur, To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, Frenzy, The Wrong Man, Dial M for Murder ( wrongly accused woman ) and Spellbound.

It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast ( 1919 ); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1915 ), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.

Hannay is summoned to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant, a senior intelligence man, who Hannay met and assisted in The Thirty-Nine Steps.

In terms of the detective genre, the first Bulldog Drummond novel was published after the Sherlock Holmes stories, the Nayland Smith / Fu Manchu novels and Richard Hannay's first three adventures including The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Wren was played by Robert Powell, who later found worldwide fame as the title character in the television series Jesus of Nazareth, and starred in films such as the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps and later the BBC medical series Holby City in the 2000s and 2010s.

* Kirkdale Estate, Galloway, Scotland ; featured in the book The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Other adaptations included Treasure Island, The Thirty-Nine Steps, The Man Who Was Thursday and The Count of Monte Cristo.

The series starts with The Thirty-Nine Steps, but Arbuthnot's first appearance is in Greenmantle, hence the title of his granddaughter's biography of him, The Man Who Was Greenmantle.

John Buchan's 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps weaves elements of conspiracy and man-on-the-run archetypes.

* The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1915 )

Orson Welles portrayed Hannay in a radio play of The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1938, as did Glenn Ford in 1948 on Suspense, Herbert Marshall on Studio One in 1952 and David Robb in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Mr Standfast and The Three Hostages.

Soon after the conference, Archbishop John Whitgift died and the anti-Puritan Richard Bancroft, who had argued against the Puritans at Hampton Court, was appointed to the See of Canterbury, the King's fears led to demands that Puritan ministers adhere to each of the Thirty-Nine Articles.

* Richard Hannay: The Thirty-Nine Steps ' Secret Scot

The First World War broke out eight weeks after the events of The Thirty-Nine Steps and Hannay immediately joined the New Army as a captain.

Greenmantle, the sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps begins in early 1916, with Hannay in Hampshire where he has arrived to convalesce after Loos.

It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle ( 1916 ); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1915 ), is set in the period immediately before the war started.

He arrives in London in the midst of an air raid ; in a tube station he sees Ivery, the spymaster's guard down in fear, and Hannay finally recognises him as one of the " Black Stone " men he had tangled with in The Thirty-Nine Steps.

* The Graf Otto von Schwabing, an officer of the Imperial Guard and German spy that Hannay met in ' The Thirty-Nine Steps ' notorious for his ability to disguise himself.

Steps in Time, 1959,

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 film ), directed by Ralph Thomas

From 1945 to 1959 he lived in Venezuela, which is the inspiration for the unnamed South American country in which much of his novel The Lost Steps takes place.

* The 39 Steps colour remake ( 1959 )

Fred Astaire, in his autobiography Steps in Time ( 1959 ), says Raft was a lightning-fast dancer and did " the fastest Charleston I ever saw.

* Giant Steps ( 1959 )

He had small roles in the remake of The 39 Steps ( 1959 ); Tender is the Night ( 1962 ) as a young man, uncredited ; and in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever ( 1970 ) with Barbra Streisand.

On film, the best-known of the many productions he appeared in were The 39 Steps ( 1959, as Kennedy ), Ben-Hur ( 1959, uncredited but playing Marius ), Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962, as John Williams ), Arabesque ( 1966 ) and Battle of Britain ( 1969, as Flight Sergeant Arthur ).

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )

Architecturally significant buildings in the area include the Kelvin Stevenson Memorial Church ( by J. J. Stevenson, 1898 ), Alexander ' Greek ' Thomson's Sixty Steps ( 1872 ), and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St. Charles Parish Church ( 1959 ), noted for its hyperbolic paraboloid concrete roof and Stations of the Cross sculptures by Benno Schotz.

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )

* Frank Stella: Seven Steps ( 1959 ), Ctesiphon III ( 1968 ), Bonin Night Heron No. 1 ( 1976 ).

Brig o ' Turk has a rare 1930's wooden tea room, which featured in the 1959 re-make of The Thirty-nine Steps.

* 1959 “ Ten Steps to the East ”

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )

Film roles included In Which We Serve ( 1942 ), The Way Ahead ( 1944 ), the 1952 remake of Hindle Wakes, Room in the House ( 1955 ), the 1959 remake of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and Die, Monster, Die!

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )

* Fred Astaire: Steps in Time, 1959, multiple reprints.

* Fred Astaire: Steps in Time, 1959, multiple reprints.

* Fred Astaire: Steps in Time, 1959, multiple reprints.

* The 39 Steps ( 1959 )