Wallace Reyburn was a New Zealand-born humourist author and rugby writer who was responsible for a number of well-known urban legend

Urban legend

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true...

s, including the widespread belief that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas Crapper

Thomas Crapper

Thomas Crapper was a plumber who founded Thomas Crapper & Co. in London. Contrary to widespread misconceptions, Crapper did not invent the flush toilet. He did, however, do much to increase the popularity of the toilet, and developed some important related inventions, such as the ballcock...

 and that the brassiere was invented by Otto Titzling

Otto Titzling

Otto Titzling is a fictional character who is apocryphally described as the inventor of the brassiere in a book Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling, published by Macdonald in London in 1971 and by Prentice-Hall in the USA....

. Reyburn wrote several books, some humorous and some not, including on rugby and on the Canadian armed forces, as well as humorous yarns of pseudo-historical nonsense. Reyburn was also the editor of the Canadian magazine New Liberty before returning to the United Kingdom in 1950.

Books

• Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper (1969)
• Bust Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra (1972)