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[mercia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_de_Lotbiniere

[french frank]

Imagine trying to squeeze that on the back of a passport photo!

The advantage of being called Smith.

Lotbinière, then, is in Canada and the name tacked on to that of M. Joly.

[Nick Armstrong]

Hilarious during the introductions to hear "Barto Joly de Lotbinière" followed by "Sam Smith"

What a marvellous pageant of heterogeneity &c. &c. [Ed. - Two white males... ]

[Lat-Literal]

York Uni is a lot posher than it was in the eighties!

[gurnemanz]

York Uni is a lot posher than it was in the eighties!

I think it picks up a quota of Oxbridge rejects (cf Durham).

[vinteuil]

I think it picks up a quota of Oxbridge rejects (cf Durham).

... harsh!

[Pabmusic]

For what it's worth, here's the background to 'The Name' (courtesy of - - the Mail):

Bartolomeo Cuthbert Joly de Lotbiniere has a brother named Bede Massimo, 15, and an 18-year-old sister named Aphra Antonia. His parents are Max, 52, and 51-year-old Amanda...The Joly de Lotbiniere surname was first formed 127 years ago by politician Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere, the son of Huguenot businessman Pierre-Gustave Joly and Roman Catholic mother Julie-Christine Chartier de Lotbinière. He took on the double-barrelled name following the death of his mother in 1888. French-born Sir Henri-Gustave, who was also a lawyer and lived from 1829 to 1908, served as the Premier of Quebec, a federal cabinet minister in Canada and the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cuthbert and Bede? The parents enthusiasts of Anglo Saxon history, perhaps? (But not so far as to call their sister "Hilda"!)

(Let alone "Wallburga"!)

[Nick Armstrong]

For what it's worth, here's the background ...

Stalker alert...!!!

[gurnemanz]

Cuthbert and Bede? The parents enthusiasts of Anglo Saxon history, perhaps? (But not so far as to call their sister "Hilda"!)

(Let alone "Wallburga"!)

He should have gone to Durham.

[Lat-Literal]

I think it picks up a quota of Oxbridge rejects (cf Durham).

Yes.

Whereas in the very early days it was merely Harriet Harman and Greg Dyke.

One wonders what a different surname may have achieved.

Lat-Lit Verisimilitude ap Betws y Coed or something similar.

As for Hilda, whenever I see that name my mind immediately leaps to Muriel.

(as in wall)

[Pabmusic]

...As for Hilda, whenever I see that name my mind immediately leaps to Muriel.

(as in wall)

Rumpole for me!

[Beef Oven!]

Oscar Powell should be given his own programme!

[Nick Armstrong]

Rumpole for me!

[french frank]

What a marvellous pageant of heterogeneity &c. &c. [Ed. - Two white males... ]

There does appear to be a yellow duck (drake?) sitting alongside Mr Smith.