James Scaramanga

Lieutenant James John Scaramanga was a First World War British flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories. He scored his last victory after he had already received the wound which would soon prove fatal. The observer ace hailed from a wealthy Greek family with a connection to James Bond series author Ian Fleming.

James John Scaramanga, son of John George Scaramanga and his wife Louisa Yeames Scaramanga, was born onJuly 1898 in Reigate, Surrey. Some sources give an alternate place of birth, Redhill, Surrey. By 1901, he was living at Tiltwood House in Worth, West Sussex, with his extended family, including his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Eliza Franghiadi Scaramanga. Tiltwood House, a fifteenbedroomed mansion on Tiltwood Estate, in Crawley Down, Worth, had been purchased and enlarged by his Greek grandfather George Emmanuel Scaramanga. By the time of his grandfathers death in 1897, Tiltwood Estate was nearly 500 acres. His grandmother died in 1933, and the estate passed on to Jamess uncle Ambrose Scaramanga. Jamess first cousin George Ambrose Scaramanga is alleged to be the inspiration for the choice of name for the Scaramanga villain in Ian Flemings The Man with the Golden Gun, published posthumously. Fleming and George Ambrose Scaramanga had been schoolmates at Eton College in the 1920s

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