On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:21 PM, alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>> - but secondly, don't force people's names to be subdivided.
>>>
>>> I like the French convention
>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nzpug/BJAPKnYHXb4/tfi30IqCPpUJ>.
>>
>> I may not have a family name at all
>
> Damn this would have been an ideal place to reference Fawlty Towers (not
> monty python but close).
>
>
> Basil: Your Name please could I have your name
> Lord Melbury: Melbury
> Basil: Could you fill it in please
> Basil: There There There
> Basil: BOTH Names Please
> Lord Melbury: I Beg Your pardon>
> Basil: Would you put BOTH Your names please.
> Lord Melbury: er I only use one.
> Basil: You Don't have a first name?
> Lord Melbury: No I am Lord Melbury, so i simply sign Melbury.
>
> (simultanious Telephone conversation deleted for clarity)
>
> Note with English titles such as Lordship, they may or May not have an
> relationship to the recipients actual family name, often they refer to
> the location of the lords residency.
Specific example: Lord Kelvin, after whom the SI unit of temperature
is named. He's most commonly known by something that isn't his given
name OR family name ("William" and "Thomson" respectively), but by the
name of a river.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Kelvin
I suppose you could put down Kelvin as a last name and either Baron or
Lord as a first name, but that'd just be cheating...
ChrisA
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