H. E. Bates Lydia". His most popular creation was the Larkin family in "The Darling Buds of May". Pop Larkin and his family were inspired by a colourful character seen in a local shop in Kent by Bates and his family when on holiday. The man (probably Wiltshire trader William Dell, also on holiday) turned up to the shop with a huge wad of rubber-banded bank notes and proceeded to spoil his trailer load of children with Easter eggs and ice creams. The television adaptation, produced after his death by his son Richard and based on these stories, was a tremendous success. It
Lorenzo E. Darling held include county clerk and member of the board of supervisors of Outagamie County, Wisconsin. He was a Republican. Lorenzo E. Darling Lorenzo E. Darling was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Darling was born on August 9, 1829 in Warren Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. After residing in East Troy (town), Wisconsin, he moved to Greenville, Wisconsin in 1849 and later to Appleton, Wisconsin, Ellington, Wisconsin and Shiocton, Wisconsin. In 1854, Darling married Mary E. Morse. They would have three children. He died on December 23, 1895. Darling was elected to the Assembly in 1873. He had previously been