h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Major Geoffrey Boothroyd (called by that name in the first film Dr No)
In the sixth novel, Dr. No, the service armourer Major Boothroyd appears for the first time. Fleming named the character after Geoffrey Boothroyd, a firearms expert who lived in Glasgow. He had written to him suggesting that Bond was not using the best firearms available.
This character transmutes into Q played mostly by Desmond Llewellen and credited as Q although he appears in the credits as Boothroyd for "From Russia With Love".

At last I can put this one out of its misery.

I think that Q is never referred to Q in the Bond novels (the Fleming ones at least), or is he?

Toybox...I must confess I haven't read a Bond novel for over 50 years.

I have been watching the film series (cheers HMV special offers).

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There was a real person Major Geoffrey Boothroyd who supposedly advised Fleming on what weapon to give Bond.

Don't know why I remembered this or where I found it out but .....

Didn't go to the end of the thread

BTW - the other guy that could have been the inspiration behind Q is (apparently) the inventor of (amongst other things) Camouflage on Aeroplanes (why does virtually everyone these days spell it Airplane?) - which I remember (IIRC from QI) is not to hide them in the clouds, but to "blur" the edges of them - and the cottonisation (sp?) process used on Spitfires fuselage, which made them go faster...

His name was Sidney Cotton..

I wish I'd known the following bit of trivia while this QI was still alive: When did Roger Moore first play James Bond? Easy you say, Live & Let Die, 1973. Wrong, he played James Bond in 1964, in a comedy sketch on Millicent Martin's TV show. Aren't you glad you know that?

And the last time he played Bond wasn't 1985 "A View to a Kill" it was (I believe) 2009 Red Nose Day with Catherine Tate.

Or am I getting mixed up. Daniel Craig played opposite Catherine Tate but Roger Moore was with Victoria Wood. I think that's right but I am happy to be corrected.

Q - was Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who died in 1944, there is a memorial to him overlooking the river opposite Fowey.

Which is nothing to do with anything other than him also being a novelist.