Eric George Whelpton (21 March 1894 – 13 February 1981) was a British writer, teacher and traveller.
[1] Whelpton taught English at Ecole Des Roches and ran an office for the interchange of pupils and teachers, together with Dorothy L. Sayers.
In 1920 he then moved and bought an estate agency in Florence and later worked in a girls' school and started a weekly newspaper called the Italian Mail.
[citation needed] At the University of Oxford, Whelpton became a close friend of Sayers, and was one of the models for the character of Lord Peter Wimsey in her detective novels.
[citation needed] From 1943 he was married to the artist and travel writer Barbara Crocker who illustrated a number of his books.