The Rev. Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache (1826-1895), a clergyman in the Church of England, gave his fifteen children some bizarre (and bizarrely long) names.
Here are the names of the children he had with his first wife, Caroline:
- Lyonel Felix Carteret Eugene Tollemache (b. 1854)
- Florence Caroline Artemisia Hume Tollemache (b. 1855)
- Evelyne Clementina Wentworth Cornelia Maude Tollemache (b. 1856)
- Granville Grey Marchmont Manners Plantagenet Tollemache (b. 1858)
- Marchmont Murray Grasett Reginald Stanhope Plantagenet Tollemache (b. 1860)
And here are the names of the children he had with his second wife, Dora:
- Dora Viola Gertrude Irenez de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1869)
- Mabel Ethel Helmingham Huntingtower Beatrice Blazonberrie Evangeline Vise de Lou de Orellana Plantagenet Saxon Toedmag Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1872)
- Lyonesse Matilda Dora Ida Agnes Ernestine Curson Paulet Wilbraham Joyce Eugénie Bentley Saxonia Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1874)
- Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1876)
- His first fifteen initials spell “Lyonel the second.”
- Lyona Decima Veronica Esyth Undine Cyssa Hylda Rowena Viola Adele Thyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche Lelias Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1878)
- Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1879)
- Lyonella Fredegunda Cuthberga Ethelswytha Ideth Ysabel Grace Monica de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1882)
- Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1884)
- He was his father’s sixth son, hence “Sextus.” “Fraudatifilius” comes from the Latin phrase fraudati filius, meaning “son of the defrauded one.”
- Lyonetta Edith Regina Valentine Myra Polwarth Avelina Philippa Violantha de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1887)
- Lyonulph Cospatrick Bruce Berkeley Jermyn Tullibardine Petersham de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache (b. 1892)
What are your thoughts on these names?
Sources:
- Lodge, Edmund. The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. London Hurst and Blackett, 1882.
- Ralph Tollemache – Wikipedia
- Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache-Tollemache – The Peerage
- Leone Sextus Tollemache – Wikipedia
