Meryl Streep, anybody who saw "The French Lieutenant's Woman" had a crush on her.

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His screenplays for film and television, include the 1981 movie The French Lieutenant's Woman based on John Fowles' novel.

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She became the inspiration for his greatest heroine, the French lieutenant's Sarah Woodruff.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman, written in 1969 and arguably Fowles's most famous novel, was set in Lyme Regis and was made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in 1981.

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Streep, up for her portrayal of cookery guru Julia Child in Julie and Julia, won the best actress Bafta for The French Lieutenant's Woman in 1982 and has been nominated a further nine times.

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Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.

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