John Buchan -– 1st Baron Tweedsmuir -–published his first novel ‘Sir Quixote (of the Moors)’ in 1895 and his first biography ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’ in 1897. Buchan debuted the all-action hero Richard Hannay in 1915 with ‘The 39 Steps’, and then across 4 further novels. Hannay was first portrayed on film by Robert Donat in the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock adaption, and on radio in 1938 by Orson Welles.