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QuickCheck: Was James Bond's name 'borrowed' from a real person?

By TAN YI LIANG

EVER since the author Ian Fleming immortalised the name “James Bond” in his 1953 novel “Casino Royale” and Hollywood turned his suave spy into a franchise spanning decades, it has been claimed that he “borrowed” the name of a real person.

Indeed, it has also been claimed that the real-life James Bond was himself an author.

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