This year our Ten Things series – which surprisingly appears on the tenth of each month – continues concentrating on the amusing, both real and fictional. So this month we have …
Ten Real Historical Personages
- Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (pictured right; born 1876; 4th son of Revd Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache, and brother of Lyonel Felix Carteret Eugene Tollemache-Tollemache, 4th Baronet Tollemache)
- Nimrod Standing (Kent; born 1838; found doing family history)
- William le Cunte (Norwich; 1260s)
- Clarice la Claterballok (London; 1340; a woman of ill-fame)
- Robert Paternoster (1561-1596; Gentleman of the Chapel Royal)
- Wonderful Warwick (Cheshunt, Herts.; 17th century; nonconformist)
- Leonardi Da Vinci Williams (Lambeth; died 1846; found doing family history)
- Revd William Wing Fowle (18th-century; Rector of St Dunstan, Snargate, Kent)
- Thomas Strangeways Pigg-Strangeways (1866-1926; British pathologist)
- Admiral The Hon. Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunket-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1880–1967)