* 1939 – Henry Blofeld, English sportscaster

It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school.

Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio.

When Mickey Stewart was unable to play after the first day because of dysentery he seriously considered calling up the cricket journalist Henry Blofeld, but managed to survive with just 10 men.

Henry Calthorpe Blofeld OBE ( born at Hoveton Home Farm, Norfolk on 23 September 1939 ) ( nicknamed Blowers by the late Brian Johnston ) is a sports journalist.

Henry Blofeld's father ( Tom Blofeld, b. 1903, d. 1986 ) went to Eton with Ian Fleming and his name may have been the inspiration for the name of James Bond supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

A banner proclaiming Henry Blofeld is God.

This does not detract from the love that many loyal listeners to Test Match Special the world over have for him, demonstrated in the Test against Pakistan at Headingley in 1996 when a flat overlooking the ground was draped with a banner proclaiming " Henry Blofeld is God ".

* Blofeld, Henry, My Dear Old Thing: Talking Cricket, ( ISBN 0-09-173704-4 )

* Mervyn King on Henry Blofeld

* Henry Blofeld: The First ' Young Cricketer of the Year ', from the Cricket Society, by Douglas Miller

Johnston was responsible for a number of the TMS traditions, including the creation, often using the so-called Oxford "- er ", of the nicknames of fellow commentators ( for example, Jonathan Agnew is still known as " Aggers ", Henry Blofeld as " Blowers " and the late, lamented Bill Frindall as " the Bearded Wonder " (" Bearders ").

* Henry Blofeld (" Blowers ") ( 1974 – 1991, 1994 –)

The main butt of practical jokes is Henry Blofeld who fails to spot a " wind up " even if it is staring him in the face.

Henry Blofeld is reported to have said that it contained a goodly portion of " Royal brandy ".

Giles was, until that successful run of form, also gently derided by commentators: the BBC's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld famously labelled him a " Wheelie bin " because of his trundling run-up, much to Giles ' disgust.

He was out for the rest of the injury-struck tour ( England were reduced to 10 men at one point and Smith considered calling up Henry Blofeld ) and returned to Surrey to organise his benefit.

His nephew is the cricket commentator, Henry Blofeld.

* Henry Blofeld ( born 1939 ), British sports journalist nicknamed " Blowers "

:* Henry Blofeld: Himself

:* Henry Blofeld: Himself

:* Henry Blofeld: Himself

In the words of BBC cricket commentator Henry Blofeld, " It's very much a game of chess-white-flannelled figures on green grass.

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

Blofeld, with a weakened SPECTRE would appear for the final time in You Only Live Twice.

The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice, and SPECTRE was working not for itself but for an unnamed Asian government whose two representatives Blofeld speaks to during the movie ; perhaps Red China, who earlier backed Goldfinger.

Following Diamonds Are Forever, SPECTRE and Blofeld were retired from the Eon Films series, except for a cameo by Blofeld ( not identified by name, but accompanied by the character's trademark cat ) in For Your Eyes Only.

Henchmen working for SPECTRE, one of its members, or directly for Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

* Emilio Largo – " Number 2 ," second in command of SPECTRE and designated by Blofeld to oversee all field operations for Thunderball ; killed by Domino Vitali

* Marius Domingue – " Number 7 ," another Unione Corse man ; highly trustworthy, but singled out by Blofeld for a lecture in order to throw Borraud off guard

* " Number 6 " – Kills Lippe at the behest of Blofeld for being unreliable

* Pierre Borraud ( No. 9, Thunderball ) – killed by Blofeld for stealing from Spectre.

In November 2009 the new chief executive, Nick Blofeld, stated the club is now seeking a mostly seated stadium for 20, 000 to suit modern professional rugby, with potential for future expansion, containing " restaurants and cafés, hospitality suites, conference facilities and good food and beverage outlets and other potential retail outlets.

Mirrlees had Spanish antecedents, generally born without earlobes and Fleming used this physical attribute for Blofeld.

Even so, the character of Blofeld was present in the previous film, You Only Live Twice, had he and Bond had met: this previous meeting was ignored for the plot of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

His elder brother, Sir John Blofeld, also played in one Minor Counties Championship match for Norfolk against Kent 2nd X1 in July 1957.

In 1956 Blofeld was one of only three batsmen for Public Schools to score a century against Combined Services ( the others being Peter May and Colin Cowdrey ) and he was given the Cricket Society's award for the most promising young player of the season.

Selected as Eton captain in his final year at school in 1957, Blofeld suffered a serious accident, being hit by a bus while riding a bicycle to the Eton cricket ground-he remained unconscious for 28 days.

When he was told by David Clark, the tour manager, that he may have to play, Blofeld replied " I would certainly play if needed, but if I scored 50 or upwards in either innings I was damned if I would stand down for the Calcutta Test ".

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly, has black crew-cut hair, black eyes ( similar to those of Benito Mussolini's ), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth and long pointed hands and feet.

Bond describes Blofeld on their confrontation as being " a big man, perhaps six foot three ( 190 cm ), and powerfully built ".

Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( Donald Pleasence ), On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( Telly Savalas ), Diamonds are Forever ( Charles Gray ) and Never Say Never Again ( Max Von Sydow ).

Equipped with a shiny bald head and a quiet but intense voice to go with his trademark penetrating gaze, he specialised in portraying insane or evil characters, including the violent alcoholic Doc Tydon in Wake in Fright ( 1971 ), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer-Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad ( 1974 ), Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), the first film in which the villain's face is clearly seen.

Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films ( 1997 – 2002 ), is a parody of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

His other movie credits include The Young Savages ( 1961 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), The Scalphunters ( 1968 ), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ), Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ), Inside Out ( 1975 ), and Escape to Athena ( 1979 ).

The name Piz Gloria originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1963 ), wherein the hideout of the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is Piz Gloria, a mountain-top building containing an allergies investigation clinic.