James Bond villain Scaramanga lives on
The grandson of a man who inspired one of the most famous James Bond villains has admitted that the infamous surname still haunts him to this day.
George Scaramanga runs a taxi firm in Bath.
Ian Fleming fell out with his George's grandfather, David Scaramanga, while they were pupils at Eton in the 1930s.
When he wrote The Man with the Golden Gun 30 years later, Fleming created the megolomaniacal, three-nippled Scaramanga as revenge on his former adversary.
The fictional Scaramanga, who ran his crime empire from a remote tropical island, was immortalised as a screen baddie in the 1974 film when Christopher Lee played opposite Roger Moore's Bond.
George Scaramanga admits the name is a mixed blessing.
"People remember Scaramanga and often ask - but you just have to laugh it off.
"We have always talked about it in the family and my father would always watch the Bond films.
"My grandfather died 14 or 15 years ago so I never really had time to ask him why he and Fleming hated each other.
"It's still pretty cool to share a name with a Bond villain, whatever the reason behind it."
Fleming, who died in 1964, is reported to have failed to fit in at Eton and some biographies of the prolific author say he was expelled.
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