This amused me

[wellinghall]

"The longest surname in the United Kingdom was the six-barrelled one borne by the late Major LSDOF (Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius) Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantaganet Tollemache-tollemance, who was born in 1884 and died of pneumonia in France on 20 Feb 1917. Of non-repetitious surnames, the last example of a five-barrelled one was that of the Lady Caroline Jemima Temple-Nugent-Chandos-Brydges Grenville (1858-1946)."

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

They must have been a headache to whoever did the place cards when they were invited to dinner.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Somehow that feels like cheating. My surname would be long too if I called myself Pellegrina Stoat-Stoat Something Else Stoat Stoad.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Also, Fraudatifilius?????

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

There's a teacher at my school with three given names (one of them distinctly odd) and a triple-barrelled surname (including a repetition). Luckily, he is known as "Ed" to his colleagues.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Was this guy for real? If I was a bored archivist with a skewed sense of humour, I might be tempted to forge "historical" documents for people like the late Leone Sextus...

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that myself.

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

I have never been clear about the standards for English surname linking. But I've frequently had my curiousity aroused.

Anyone around here have an explanation?