Hannay Reels, the nation ’ s largest manufacturer of hose reels, is located in Westerlo.

Robert Powell ( born 1 June 1944 ) is a British television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay.

This mechanics analogue of the Berry phase is known as the Hannay angle.

Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell ( born 1 February 1930 ) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Louth and Horncastle.

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

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 called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople.

The two are separated, and Hannay is introduced to a Herr Gaudian, famed mining engineer ( who would later reappear after the war in The Three Hostages ), hears of the mysterious Hilda von Einem, and has a brief meeting with the Kaiser.

Lost out riding, Hannay encounters von Einem, and is fascinated by her ; later, he is recognised by Rasta Bey, and has just knocked him out and hidden him in a cupboard when von Einem arrives.

Stumm's men flee, Stumm is killed, and Hannay and Sandy meet up with Pienaar to ride into the city and victory.

However, when Buchan writes of a meeting between Hannay and the Kaiser, he portrays the German leader very positively, as a sensitive man who is greatly troubled by the war.

Herr Gaudian, a renowned German engineer whom Hannay meets briefly during his time with von Stumm, and who later returns in The Three Hostages, is respected by Hannay, who describes him as " a capital good fellow ".

David Hugh Alexander Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, GCMG, CH ( born 28 September 1935 ) is a British diplomat.

He is married to Gillian Hannay and has four sons and eleven grandchildren.

Lord Hannay was Chair of the Board of United Nations Association UK from January 2006 to January 2011 and is now chair of the UN All-Party Parliamentary Group.

The ward is currently represented by Councillor Malcolm Hannay, a member of the Conservative Party.

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan.

Nowhere near as hard-boiled as the detective of American noir fiction, Hannay is dependent upon his friends and appears to be a religious man ; like his author, he is Presbyterian.

* Søren Kierkegaard ( 1843 ), Either / Or, translated by Alastair Hannay, London, Penguin, 1992

The earliest successes were reported by James Ballantyne Hannay in 1879 and by Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan in 1893.

They start on November 17, and plan to meet up in a rough hostelry there exactly two months later, going each by his own route-Blenkiron, as a neutral, travelling through Germany as an observer, Sandy using his contacts in the Arab world to make the journey through Asia Minor, and Hannay, taking on the identity of Boer " Cornelis Brandt ", entering enemy territory via Lisbon.

Finding Stumm plans to send him to Egypt via London, Hannay flees into the snowbound countryside, tracked by the vengeful Colonel.

Falling income from the two charities meant that by 1809 one master, Joseph Hannay, was employed to teach forty boys on behalf of the Parker school, and fifteen for the Saunders school.

by Alastair Hannay

:* Translated with an introduction and notes by Alastair Hannay.

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

Richard Hannay has been portrayed on screen in four versions of The Thirty Nine Steps by Robert Donat, Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones ( in a 2008 BBC production ), while Powell reprised the role for the ITV series Hannay ( 1988 – 1989 ).

His last adventure, The Island of Sheep, occurred some twelve years later when Hannay, now in his fifties, was 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.

Mr Standfast is the third of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton, London.

Raffles ; Professor Challenger ; Richard Hannay ; Bulldog Drummond ; the evil Fu Manchu and his adversary, Sir Denis Nayland Smith ; G-8 ; The Shadow ; Sam Spade ; Doc Savage's cousin Patricia Savage, and one of his five assistants, Monk Mayfair ; The Spider ; Nero Wolfe ; Mr. Moto ; The Avenger ; Philip Marlowe ; James Bond ; Lew Archer ; Travis McGee ; Monsieur Lecoq ; and Arsène Lupin.

Excerpts from: Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Collins & Hannay, New York 1832

* James Hannay, The life and times of Sir Leonard Tilley, being a political history of New Brunswick for the past seventy years ( 1897 ) Saint John, New Brunswick

He married firstly, Nichola Hannay, daughter of Sir Robert Hannay, 1st Baronet, on 23 January 1654.

Though the Hannay books stop short of World War Two, 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.

* Sir David Hannay GCMG CH

Dick Hannay, under forty and already a successful Brigadier-General with good prospects of advancement, is called out of uniform by his old comrade, spymaster Sir Walter Bullivant, and sent to Fosse Manor in the Cotswolds to receive further instructions.

* Sir Walter Bullivant, spymaster, old acquaintance of Hannay

It is some time after the war, and Sir Richard Hannay is living in rural tranquility, having bought Fosse Manor and married Mary Lamington ( both featured in Mr Standfast ); they have a small son, named Peter John.

Hannay is adamant that he cannot help, but his third visitor that day, Sir Arthur Warcliff, tells him about his missing son, and Hannay is drawn into the chase.

Bullivant gives Hannay an outline of the political situation in the Middle East, and hints that the Germans and their Turkish allies are plotting to cause a great uprising throughout the Muslim world, that will throw the whole of the Middle East, India and North Africa into turmoil ; Bullivant proposes that Hannay takes on the task of investigating rumours.

Wake identifies some of their talk as extracts from Goethe, and is sent back with messages for Amos and Bullivant, while Hannay ponders the phrases he overheard-Bommaerts, Chelius, Elfenbein (' Ivory ', homophone of ' Ivery '), Wild Bird and Caged Bird.

Hannay is encouraged by a letter from Peter Pienaar, and at a meeting with Bullivant, Blenkiron and Mary, he pushes for them to hound the man down.