Born in 1435 in Bumbleshire, Britain, to Brian, Earl of Surry and an unnamed serving girl. Fluebottom was a talented natural scientist who identified three new species of vole, and conducted experiments, detailed in his book, The Flammable Home, that investigated the chemical properties of a number of common substances, including urine and horses.

Despite his numerous achievements, Fluebottom is best known as the originator of the practice of flatulence ignition, which he perfected by the time he published his seminal work, Bottoms Up!, and has gone largely unchanged in the centuries since.

Late in life, Fluebottom developed a prototype for an “Ale Boung,” but passed away of alcohol poisoning before he could do more with it. Oddly, despite his professed desire to marry, Fluebottom died a bachelor.