LONG NAMES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 261, 18 August 1930, Page 8

LONG NAMES.

THE RECORD IN ENGLAND. A paragraph in a London newspaper asked who is the most quaintly-nameu person in the world. It mentioned that during the Boer War an English eh?ld was g christened Bobs Kitchener Buller Magersfontein Bulawayo 'Smith. But there are men and women who as the result of the eccentricity of their parents have had to carry through life much longer names than that. One of the British casualty lists published during the Great War announced the death of Captain L. S. DO. F. F. 1. T de 0 P Tollemache-Tollemache, ot ' tlie Leicester Regiment. The full name of this officer, who was one of-a family of nine brothers and sisters, all ot whom bore great names, was Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudati Films Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana He was a son of Rev. Ralph Tollemache, who for some unexplained reason had doubled his name, and had apparently been so pleased with the result that he went on adding to iv. One of his sons declined to carry the burden of a long string of names, and in 1908 stripped himself of most ot them by legal process. He had been christened Leo Quintas Tollemache-To emache de Orelana Plantagenet .Tolle-mache-Tollemache and he shortened it to Leo de Orelana Tollemache. Another brother was still more heaviln burdened with Christian names. He was Lvonel Ydwallo Odm Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchen Wyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Neyill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle-mache Equally heavy burdens were laid on his sisters at the baptismal font The eldest was Mabel Ethel Helmingham Huntingtower Beatrice Blazonberrie" Evangeline Vise de Lou Orellana Plantagenet Saxon Toedmag Tollemache-Tollemache, and the next sister bore the names of Lyonesse Matilda Dora Ida Agnes Ernestine Curson Padget Wilbraham Joyce Eugenie Bentley Saxon Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache. Another eccentric parent was William Harris, who in the closing decades of the last century achieved fame in . London as a sausage maker, and was known as the Sausage King. He named his three sons William 1.. William 11., and William 111., and his throe daughters Elizabeth 1., Elizabeth 11., and Elizabeth 111.