His notable novels are The Thirty-nine Steps ( 1915 ), Greenmantle ( 1916 ) and sequels, all featuring the heroic Scotsman Richard Hannay.

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.

The novel featured Buchan's oft used hero, Richard Hannay, whose character was based on Edmund Ironside, a friend of Buchan from his days in South Africa.

In 1935, Buchan's literary work was adapted to the cinematic theatre with the completion of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.

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.

In 1978, Powell took the leading role of Richard Hannay in the third film version of The Thirty Nine Steps.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

John Buchan was an admirer of Bunyan, and Pilgrim's Progress features significantly in his third Richard Hannay novel, Mr Standfast, which also takes its title from one of Bunyan's characters.

* The Thirty-Nine Steps ( 1959 ) as Richard Hannay

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

* Richard Hannay, stolid and resourceful soldier and occasional spy

The subsequent Richard Hannay novels of John Buchan are:

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.

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 ).

As revealed through the various novels, Richard Hannay was born in Scotland about 1877 ; his father was Scottish and had German business partners.

Richard Hannay was one of the first modern spy thriller heroes and as such has heavily influenced the genre.

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

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

* Brigadier-General Richard Hannay, tough soldier and occasional spy

The subsequent Richard Hannay novels of John Buchan are:

In July 2008, Robards took over the role of Richard Hannay in the New York City theatrical run of The 39 Steps.

He has worked extensively on BBC radio drama including as Charles in the original radio series of Up the Garden Path opposite Imelda Staunton, as Captain Jack Aubrey in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of the Patrick O ' Brian " Aubrey " novels and as Richard Hannay in several adaptations of the John Buchan novels, including Mr Standfast in 2007.

It identifies Mary Lamington, a young intelligence officer, who falls in love, mutually, with the hero of the novel, general Richard Hannay.

Justin surrenders, but Richard shoots Justin in the shoulder and flees upstairs.

In the episode " Sideshow ", he escapes from a train bound for Levitz Prison and flees through the countryside, taking refuge in a town of naively trusting circus carnies including a " seal boy " named Billy, a giant named Goliath, conjoined twins named May and June, and a hunchbacked ringmaster named Richard.

As he flees, Richard hears Emmeline cry out and follows the sound just in time to help her give birth to a baby boy, whom they name Paddy, in remembrance of Paddy Button.

There, fooled by the ability to become invisible, Richard releases the Mriswith Queen, who then flees to Aydindril back through the Sliph.

The sailor opens fire on Richard who flees.

When Louhi steals Väinämöinen's kantele and flees off to wreak havoc, she plays the opening notes of Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

Richard Ingrams, 1974, Muller, London )

The Scoville Memorial Libraries collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London.

The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.

* Fisher, Richard B., " Edward Jenner 1749-1823 ," Andre Deutsch, London, 1991.

Edward V and his 10-year old brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London and their uncle made himself king as Richard III.

Richard of Wallingford, a local landowner, who had presented demands to Richard II on behalf of Wat Tyler in London, brought news of this to St Albans and argued with the abbot over the charter.

* Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London.

In October 1823, Richard Rush, the American minister in London, advised that Foreign Secretary George Canning was proposing that the U. S. and Britain jointly declare their opposition to European intervention.

From late 1962 until the spring of 1964, he played drums for The Beachcombers, a London cover band notable for renditions of songs by Cliff Richard.

* Richard Beeston, Looking For Trouble: The Life and Times of a Foreign Correspondent, 1997, published by Brassey's, London.

The society also lost several major figures over the period: Richard Lovell Edgeworth ceased regular involvement in the society's activities when he returned to Ireland in 1782, John Whitehurst died in London in 1788, and Thomas Day died the following year.

It was widely supported in the Edinburgh and London schools of higher anatomy around 1830, notably by Robert Edmond Grant, but was opposed by Karl Ernst von Baer's ideas of divergence, and attacked by Richard Owen in the 1830s.

* 1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.

At first, the dictionary was unconnected to Oxford University but was the idea of a small group of intellectuals in London ; it originally was a Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries.

By 1598, they were so famous, London poet and sonneteer Richard Barnefield wrote:

* Richard English, Armed Struggle – A History of the IRA, MacMillan, London 2003, ISBN 1-4050-0108-9

Richard Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne ( 1587 – 1633 ), was the daughter of Sir William Barne and the granddaughter of Sir George Barne III ( 1532-d. 1593 ), the Lord Mayor of London and a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I ; and Anne Gerrard, daughter of Sir William Garrard, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1555.

Richard Lovelace's mother was also the daughter of Anne Sandys and the granddaughter of Cicely Wilford and the Most Reverend Dr. Edwin Sandys, an Anglican church leader who successively held the posts of the Bishop of Worcester ( 1559 – 1570 ), Bishop of London ( 1570 – 1576 ), and the Archbishop of York ( 1576 – 1588 ).