Talk:Richard Hannay

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This is a very good article indeed. Might it be time to submit it to peer review with an eye to propmotion to featured status sometime in the future? Lisiate 08:20, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early Life?

I am curious about the sources for the Early Life section. I can't recall any such details in the Hannay books. Could someone provide a reference, please. Dabbler 04:18, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

I have removed most of the following section until someone can provide detailed references (not just suggestions of vague "hints") where the supposed information contained in it can be found in Buchan's work. Dabbler 15:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Early Life

Richard Hannay was born in Scotland about 1877; in various hints dropped throughout the books it is mentioned that his father was Scottish but his paternal grandparents were German, and he was brought up to speak that language pretty fluently. At the age of six he joined his father in South Africa. He became a mining engineer spending three years prospecting for copper in German Damaraland and made a small fortune in Bulawayo. He took part in the Matabele wars and was an intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay in the Boer war. He returned to England in 1914, and the events of The 39 Steps take over.