Neil Stapleton is an assistant to the spymaster Hubert Bowles, and sometime guest at Lavender House.

Personal History

Events of the Lord John Series

Lord John and the Private Matter

Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

"Lord John and the Haunted Soldier"

Personality

Physical Appearance

Relationships

Name

• Neil is from the Gaelic name Niall, which is of disputed origin, possibly meaning "champion" or "cloud".^[1]
• Stapleton is a habitational name from any of various places in England, for example in Cumbria, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Shropshire, Somerset, and North Yorkshire, so named from Old English stapol "post" + tun "enclosure", "‘settlement". ^[2]

Trivia

TV Series

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