Andrew Lycett

British journalist and biographer, author of Ian Fleming (1996), the standard modern biography of James Bond's creator.

He matters to this vault as the shared root behind the vault's Fraser-Smith/Q attribution chain: History.com's claim that Charles Fraser-Smith was Fleming's real-life model for "Q" is Lycett's own characterization, quoted secondhand — recorded in claim-fraser-smith-real-life-model-for-bond-q's root_shared field as "Andrew Lycett's Fleming biography, cited by History.com but not read directly by this vault." Lycett is also cited repeatedly by Wikipedia's "Diamonds Are Forever (novel)" article for other plot-origin claims, though not for the golf-ball detail specifically — making him the one name a future session would most want to check directly to settle whether a Tier 1–2 source exists for that claim.

References

• claim-fraser-smith-real-life-model-for-bond-q — the Q identification, whose Lycett quote is the chain's shared root.
• claim-diamonds-are-forever-golf-ball-device-corroborated-independently — notes Lycett is cited by Wikipedia for other Diamonds Are Forever plot-origin claims, but not the golf-ball one.