*Why is it that people of finer (?) English heritage often has a double second name? Someone once suggested to me that it originates from having (or an ancestor having) adopted the name of both one's 'marital' father and one's biological father, for reasons of property inheritance, but I never believed that one. Just curious.
I believe historically this would not be the case, for obvious reasons of reputation. Today, a few English people take both their mothers and fathers names, for example, a friend of mine is William Casson-Smith, of course, not all names sound good like this, ie. Paul Bradley-Hemsley, interestingly they only sound right if the second name has one less syllable than the first. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"