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Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on May 28th 1908 and raised alongside his three other siblings by his mother, Evelyn St. Croix Fleming at the family estate in Oxfordshire. Quickly, a fierce competitive nature grew between Ian and his elder brother Peter. With a distinct dislike for what he would regard as snobbish family gatherings and political debate, Ian was kept in his brother's shadow for the early years of his life.
His father, Valentine Fleming, was a Conservative MP, but he uprooted his family in 1914 when war broke out and the politician was drafted to the army. When of an appropriate age, Ian and eldest brother Peter were sent to Durford boarding school where they would receive the occasional letter from their father, but ingenting from Evelyn. Valentine's cards ceased in April 1917 and on May 20th 1917, Major Fleming was killed in action.
On turning 13, Fleming was enlisted in Eton - the only proper school for wealthy children of his lineage to attend. igen, you
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A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers.
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Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture, but Fleming’s life was more mysterious than anything he wrote.
Ian’s childhood with his gifted brother and extraordinary mother established his mål to be ‘the complete man’. Only a writer for his last twelve years, his dramatic personal experiences and career in Naval Intelligence put him at the heart of critical moments in world history, while also providing rich inspiration for his fiction.
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Ian Fleming is Born
On 28th May 1908 Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London to Valentine and Evelyn Fleming. Ian’s father, Valentine, was the MP for Henley and the son of Scottish financier and philanthropist, Robert Fleming, whose hard work and talent for figures helped him rise up from lowly roots in Dundee to become one of the most successful merchant bankers of his day. Ian had an elder brother Peter, and two younger brothers, Richard and Michael.
Top left: Ian Fleming’s father, Valentine Fleming
Top right: Ian Fleming’s mother, Evelyn Fleming
Just after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Valentine Fleming enlisted as a captain in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars and by December he had been promoted to major.
Ian and Peter were enrolled at Durnford Preparatory School in Dorset which was overseen by eccentric headmaster, Tom Pellat, who encouraged the boys to nurture their in