List of Famous people with last name Fraser-smith

Charles Fraser-Smith

First Name Charles
Last Name Fraser-Smith
Born on January 26, 1904
Died on November 9, 1992 (aged 88)

Charles Fraser-Smith was an author and one-time missionary who is widely credited as being the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond quartermaster Q. During World War II, Fraser-Smith worked for the Ministry of Supply, fabricating equipment nicknamed "Q-devices" for SOE agents operating in occupied Europe. Prior to the war, Fraser-Smith had worked as a missionary in North Africa. After the war he purchased a dairy farm in Burrington, Devon, where he died in 1992.

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