Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gerald Lankester Harding" in English language version.
One [photo] is of a Man named Gerald Lankester Harding, whom I knew when I was stationed in Beirut. He was formerly Curator of Antiquities in Jerusalem at which time he was instrumental in bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls into view of the public: an old Bedouin led him to the cave containing the scrolls. Anyway, Gerald was the physical model in my mind when I created the character of Father Merrin [from The Exorcist], whose first name, please note, is Lankester.
