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Father of arch-cad, womaniser and all-round bounder Harry Flashman dies, aged 82

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20080103
Author:Craig Brown

GEORGE MacDonald Fraser, the creator of the much-loved Flashman novels, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 82.

Born in Carlisle but proud of his Scots heritage, the best- selling writer spent more than two decades living north of the Border and served overseas with the Gordon Highlanders.

Fraser's life and career reflected the wild adventures of his literary creation.

He imagined Harry Flashman, the bullying schoolboy of Thomas Hughes' 19th-century classic Tom Brown's Schooldays, grown up to become a soldier in the British Army.

In the book and 11 sequels, the roguish Flashman ...

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