James Ulysses Bond

James Ulysses Bond

James Ulysses Bond, born Christopher Wilson,cite web
title=Moving ceremony for homeless man
url=http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2007/10/17/homepage2.lpf
date=2007-10-17
work=Cambridge News
accessdate=2007-10-19] was a homeless person who lived in a tent by the River Cam in Newnham, Cambridgeshire. After featuring in a documentary about homelessness, he was taken in over Christmas 2006 by Mick Lazarus of Milton, Cambridgeshire. Bond took a place with Emmauscite web
title='Help us give him dignity in death'
url=http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/city/2007/10/13/4647a09e-63d6-4aa0-bce6-dcad531b58ae.lpf
date=2007-10-13
work=Cambridge News
accessdate=2007-10-19] but left, and later developed kidney problems. He died of natural causescite web
title=Bid to find dead man's relatives
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/7015623.stm
work=BBC News
date=2007-09-27
accessdate=2007-10-19] and was found dead on September 20, 2007. Lazarus offered to fund a funeral, but appealed in the Cambridge Evening News for help with the costs as neither he nor Bond's sister Wendi Wilson could afford to pay the full £1500. The leader and deputy leader of South Cambridgeshire District Council donated to the appeal,cite web
title=Readers donate money to help pay for funeral
url=http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2007/10/16/b09a815f-9bf0-428f-a07f-b8cdfe6df987.lpf
date=2007-10-16
work=Cambridge News
accessdate=2007-10-19] which eventually raised £1250. The balance was paid by the newspaper's charity fund, "Press Relief". A funeral was held at Cambridge Crematorium on October 16, 2007.

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