{"id":187,"date":"2012-05-16T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=187"},"modified":"2014-09-07T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T15:35:56","slug":"ralph-vernon-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2012\/05\/16\/ralph-vernon-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Holmes Vernon-Hunt 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RVHletter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-188 alignright\" title=\"RVHletter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RVHletter-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RVHletter-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RVHletter.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 136px) 100vw, 136px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While sorting through some PAN related bits and pieces I came across the last will and testament of Ralph Holmes Vernon-Hunt (as you do) in which he leaves all to his wife or in the event of his wife predeceasing him, his children. Included with this was the letter to the right on PAN Books headed notepaper because at the time he was Sales\u00a0Director who later became the Managing Director but he is more famous for another reason.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RVH.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-189 alignleft\" title=\"RVH\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RVH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"87\" \/><\/span><\/a>He was the model for the James Bond found on the covers of several titles from the early 1960&#8217;s. He even appears on one cover when he shouldn&#8217;t! Click <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Spot the mistake!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/PANG101.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span> to find out which one has the mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ralph Holmes Vernon-Hunt May 23rd 1923\u00a0&gt; Nov 10th 1987<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sales Director PAN Books 1947\u00a0&gt; 1962 &amp; 1969 &gt; 1982<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Nephew of Alan John Bott\u00a0&gt; Founder of PAN Books<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally I was out walking a long distance footpath over the last couple of days some of which included the towpath of the Staffs and Worcs Canal. One of the moored narrow boats had a\u00a0couple of boxes of paperbacks\u00a0 by it. They were\u00a010p each and in one was, at a quick look, a complete set of James Bond PANs from the 60&#8217;s. I was very tempted but as I was only 15 miles into the 41 I had to cover I regrettably decided not to this time which was probably a sensible decision.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sorting through some PAN related bits and pieces I came across the last will and testament of Ralph Holmes Vernon-Hunt (as you do) in which he leaves all to his wife or in the event of his wife predeceasing him, his children. Included with this was the letter to the right on PAN Books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}