More Remarkable Names
Published by Rick on Saturday, September 06, 2008.
Garnish Lurch, train driver for Jamaica Railways. He was at the throttle when his train derailed killing 178 passengers and injuring several hundred more. As reported in The Daily Gleaner, 1957, Kingston, Jamaica.
A. A. A. D’Artagnan Umslopagaas Dynamite Macaulay, as reported in The Times.
Serious Misconduct, from Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
A. Moron, Commissioner of Education, British Virgin Islands.
Marshall Outteridge, the Editor’s late uncle. Family lore maintains that he was named after Marshal Foch, the French commander during the Great War. Marshall’s mother thought Marshall was Foch’s first name (which was actually Ferdinand), not realising that Marshal was a French military rank.
Sir Edward Pine-Coffin, a Poor Relief Commissioner during the Irish Potato Famine.
Plummer and Leek, plumbers of Sheringham, Norfolk.
Hugh Pugh, landscape gardener of London.
Cupid Rash, father of nine, who managed to get eleven years behind in his rent before being evicted from his council house, as reported in the Western Morning News.
Mrs. Screech, Singing teacher, Victoria, British Colombia.
Sir Basil Smallpiece, sometime Chairman, Cunard Line.
Lee Bum Suck, sometime South Korean Foreign Minister.
Tetley Ironsides Tetley-Jones, sometime Chairman, Tetley Tea Company, London.
Pleasant Titty, baptised 3rd April 1768, Margate, Kent. She was named after her mother, so there was a pair of Pleasant Tittys in the family.
Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, resident of Bentleigh, Otumoetai, Tauranga, New Zealand.
Hannibal Toto, when, at a wedding in Rome, he was requested to fire a salute using his shotgun, he injured the groom and twelve guests. As reported in The Daily Mail.
Aristotle Tottle, pirate from Falmouth.
Mr. Vroom, motorcycle dealer, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Miss Wang married Mr King, Kensington and Chelsea, 1997.
A. A. A. D’Artagnan Umslopagaas Dynamite Macaulay, as reported in The Times.
Serious Misconduct, from Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
A. Moron, Commissioner of Education, British Virgin Islands.
Marshall Outteridge, the Editor’s late uncle. Family lore maintains that he was named after Marshal Foch, the French commander during the Great War. Marshall’s mother thought Marshall was Foch’s first name (which was actually Ferdinand), not realising that Marshal was a French military rank.
Sir Edward Pine-Coffin, a Poor Relief Commissioner during the Irish Potato Famine.
Plummer and Leek, plumbers of Sheringham, Norfolk.
Hugh Pugh, landscape gardener of London.
Cupid Rash, father of nine, who managed to get eleven years behind in his rent before being evicted from his council house, as reported in the Western Morning News.
Mrs. Screech, Singing teacher, Victoria, British Colombia.
Sir Basil Smallpiece, sometime Chairman, Cunard Line.
Lee Bum Suck, sometime South Korean Foreign Minister.
Tetley Ironsides Tetley-Jones, sometime Chairman, Tetley Tea Company, London.
Pleasant Titty, baptised 3rd April 1768, Margate, Kent. She was named after her mother, so there was a pair of Pleasant Tittys in the family.
Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache, resident of Bentleigh, Otumoetai, Tauranga, New Zealand.
Hannibal Toto, when, at a wedding in Rome, he was requested to fire a salute using his shotgun, he injured the groom and twelve guests. As reported in The Daily Mail.
Aristotle Tottle, pirate from Falmouth.
Mr. Vroom, motorcycle dealer, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Miss Wang married Mr King, Kensington and Chelsea, 1997.
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