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3 unusual facts about John Battersby Crompton Lamburn


John Battersby Crompton Lamburn

He was as willing to quote and credit a country gamekeeper, as the famous myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler.

Most of Lamburn's source material was gleaned from popular and semi-popular material, such as the writings of Jean Henri Fabre, the Peckhams, O.H. Latter, and the like, and he credited such material properly, if informally.

During his time in Iceland Lamburn, the putative original for “William” of the Richmal Crompton books, came into contact with Air Commander Cecil George Wigglesworth, speculated to be the original for “Biggles” of the stories by W. E. Johns.



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