On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:01:31 +0100, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: >I found this unusual tale of a man who became famous and had lots of children >named after him, largely for failing and being sacked from the army, so >interesting I felt I had to share it! Anyone know of a similar one? I knew a Redvers Rouse, and because he was the right age, assumed that he had been named after Sir Redvers Buller. Another, who married into my family, was named Harry Winston Churchill Bradbury, and called Win. He was born in Ladysmith about October 1899, which was the beginning of the Anglo-Boer War. I presume that he was named after Winston Churchill, who wasn't particularly famous at the time, just an embedded journalist who happened to be around. I also knew a Hitler Mabaso, who was about my age, and presumably got his name because Hitler happened to be in the news at the time. Perhaps as a reaction against his name, in later life he was a card carrying Liberal. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/