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Lord, Ferrers. Ferrers Lord was created by “Sidney Drew,” the pseudonym of Edgar J. Murray (Royston Drake, Graydon Garth), and appeared in ten stories and serials and eleven novels and story collections from 1895 to 1935, beginning with “Wolves of the Deep” (Boys’ Friend #32, Sept. 3, 1895).

Ferrers Lord is a wealthy British nobleman and inventor who uses technologically advanced submarines of his own creation to explore the wonders of the ocean and to fight the Empire’s enemies. Lord is a staunch patriot who believes in the superiority and moral righteousness of Britain and Empire, and that it is Britain’s destiny to rule the waves and the world. In one serial Lord fights and defeats Michael Scaroff, a Russian prince and patriot and the chief of “a hundred thousand fierce Tartar horseman.” In a later serial Lord, in his flying submarines Victoria, Britannia, and Unconquerable, discovers a sinking island, Mysteria, which is surrounded by a rosy aura and is filled with overgrown plants, cannibalistic trees, carnivorous, armored crabs and giant predatory black owls. Lord destroys the island with his submarine’s super cannon. In later stories Lord is called to Greyfriars, the public school which Billy Bunter attends, and St. Jim’s, another public school created by Charles Hamilton, to investigate murders and kidnapings. Lord also teams up with Sexton Blake on several occasions.

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