Valentine Fleming

Major Valentine Fleming, DSO (1882 – 20 May 1917) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was killed in World War I. He was the father of author Ian Fleming who created the James Bond character.

Born in Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland, Valentine was the son of wealthy Scottish banker Robert Fleming, founder of merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. He lived in Arnisdale House, Loch Hourn, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He was married to Evelyn Beatrice St. Croix Rose and was the father of adventurer and travel writer Peter Fleming (father of actress Lucy Fleming), novelist Ian Fleming (author of the James Bond books), Major Richard Evelyn Fleming (whose son is billionaire Adam Fleming), and Michael Fleming.

He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford.

From 1906 to 1911, the family lived at Braziers Park close to Wallingford. On his election to parliament, they moved to Pitt House on Hampstead Heath in 1910. He was a Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 to 1917. In 1914 they built a house at Arnisdale, near Kyle of Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands.

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