William Shakespeare | William Laud | Thomas Jefferson | William Blake | William | Thomas Edison | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | The Beach Boys | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | Long Beach, California | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | Thomas | William Shatner | William Faulkner | William Randolph Hearst | Thomas Hardy | Palm Beach, Florida | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | Thomas Mann | William Hogarth | Thomas Aquinas | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | Miami Beach, Florida | Clarence Thomas | Thomas Gainsborough |
Barring the question of age, a more appropriate model for Boot may be William Beach Thomas who, according to Peter Stothard, "was a quietly successful countryside columnist and literary gent who became a calamitous Daily Mail war correspondent" in World War I.