No Sinecure by the name "Sebastian Melmoth" in reference to the novel; this fact may have inspired Hornung to use the name "Maturin" for a Raffles living in social exile. BBC Radio adapted the story into part of the thirteenth episode of its Raffles radio drama, "No Sinecure", which first aired on 30 July 1992. The drama features Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The first half of the drama closely follows the plot of the original story, with some minor changes: No Sinecure "No Sinecure" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief
William Melmoth Walters the Rule Making Committee under the Land Transfer Acts. Walters was a Conservative in politics, and Chairman of Ewell, Cuddington and Malden Conservative Association. He enjoyed fishing in Norway and Scotland, and shooting in Surrey. He travelled on the Continent frequently in his earlier years, and visited the Cape, Tasmania and Australia, Madeira, Teneriffe. William Melmoth Walters William Melmoth Walters (1835-1925) was a former President of the Incorporated Law Society (1891-1892) and member of an old Somerset family. Walters was the eldest son of John Eldad Walters of Lincoln's Inn and Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom. He