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Lord Mildin claimed to have been befriended by a group of benevolent apes who offered him food and shelter Within months Mildin was back in Britain. Mildin eventually left the village after his people’s renewed hostilities with a rival tribe and over a number of years made his way 250 miles further up the coast, eventually coming to a trading post. The teenage Mildin eventually left the apes and became accepted by a tribe of natives, marrying five of the local women – siring four children in the process – while he lived there.

The boy took pride of place within the ape family by fashioning weapons and creating fire. Mildin claimed to have been befriended by a group of benevolent apes who offered him food and shelter. Official insurance documents, Llewellan says, verify the ship’s destruction in 1868. Mildin’s ship was wrecked after a three-day storm and the young lad survived by clinging to a piece of driftwood that eventually washed him ashore somewhere between Pointe Noire and Libreville in French Equatorial Africa. Man on a mission: human rights campaigner George Washington Williams Credit: The earl’s story came to light only when family documents were made public following the death of his son in 1937.Īccording to Llewellan Jones, Lord Mildin left 1,500 pages of memoirs, which begin: “I was only 11 when, in a boyish fit of anger and pique, I ran away from home and obtained a berth as cabin boy aboard the four-masted sailing vessel, Antilla, bound for African ports-of-call and the Cape of Good Hope…”

Could it be that Tarzan was based on a real person?Īccording to journalist Thomas Llewellan Jones in a 1959 article for Man’s Adventure magazine, the 14th Earl of Streatham, William Charles Mildin, spent 15 years living in the wilds of Africa between 18. There has long been debate as to the inspiration behind one of literature’s most enduring characters.

#Jane and tarzan tarzan x shame of jane series

So begins a series of wild adventures as Tarzan fights numerous jungle beasts and bloodthirsty hunters as the head of his adopted family. The orphaned John Clayton is raised by a family of semi-literate apes who name him Tarzan, meaning “white of skin”. In Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stupendously successful books (and they really were a huge deal in their day), Tarzan is an aristocratic child left to fend for himself in the African jungle after he and his parents are marooned.

As The Legend of Tarzan arrives on UK cinema screens on 6 July, we investigate the possible inspirations behind the rope-swinging Lord of the Apes…