Sir John Stanier Waller, 7th Baronet (27 July 1917 – 22 January 1995) was an English author, poet and journalist.
During his time in Cairo, he founded the Salamander Society with Keith Bullen and John Cromer, and launched Oasis: the Middle East Anthology of Poetry from the Forces in August 1943.
[3] Waller lived in Isleworth, and was known both as "the sensitive man of literature", and "the hard-drinking, unashamed homosexual" who was not shy about his contacts with London underworld.
[4] He inherited a 250,000GBP trust fund from Lady Viola Waller; however, the full sum was under condition that he would produce a male heir.
The engagement was called off in June 1964, and the news of Bond being a trans woman (and thus unable to bear children) was made public in press.