BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bond 'based on Elizabethan spy'

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bond 'based on Elizabethan spy': "Author Ian Fleming was partly inspired to create James Bond by the exploits of a 16th century spy called John Bond, it is claimed.

Descendants of John Bond say a newly-unearthed diary reveals he went on missions for Queen Elizabeth I.

Fleming went to Durnford School on the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, which was next to the estate of the Bond family whose motto is The World Is Not Enough."