![]() The Annotated Pratchett File notes that Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes is closely modelled on Oliver Cromwell, and that the name of his supporters, the Ironheads, is a portmanteau of Roundheads and Ironsides, Cromwell's faction and regiment, respectively. The City Watch apparently runs in the Vimes family. Whatever happened to him, she raised the young Sam on her own. His mother told the young Sam that Thomas was run down by a cart, but this is untrue. His "Blackboard Monitor" epithet is used like a title in Snuff, implying it may actually have been accorded some official weight by the Low King of the dwarfs. Vimes was educated at a dame school, where he was once blackboard monitor for a whole term. It was so poor that there was little crime, though Sam was part of a street gang (The Cockbill Street Roaring Lads) with Lupine Wonse (who later became secretary to Lord Vetinari). Sam Vimes was born in Cockbill Street as the son of Thomas Vimes, whose father was Gwilliam Vimes in the Rimwards part of the Shades, the poorest area of Ankh-Morpork. He is married to Sybil Ramkin, the richest woman in the city. Born into poverty, he is now a highly reluctant member of the nobility, having been made both a knight and a duke. ![]() His rise from alcoholic policeman to respected member of the aristocracy, and the growth and development of the Watch under his command, have together been one of the major threads of the Discworld series. Vimes is the Commander of the City Watch, the burgeoning police force of the Discworld's largest city, Ankh-Morpork. Artist Paul Kidby, who has collaborated with Pratchett on several works, portrays him as resembling Clint Eastwood. While no detailed description of his physical appearance shows up in any of the Discworld novels, Pratchett says in the companion work, The Art of Discworld, that he has always imagined Vimes as British actor Pete Postlethwaite. He first appeared in the novel Guards! Guards!. Other titles used occasionally are Ambassador for Ankh-Morpork as well as Blackboard Monitor Vimes (mostly by dwarfs, due to their near worship of words and therefore dislike of blackboards and their being monitored). His full name and title is His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. Samuel "Sam" Vimes is a policeman from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
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