Names: and Their Meaning

Why is it called Lloyd's? Why the Green Man? Leopold Wagner traced the origins of everything the Victorians had a name for — countries, tavern signs, flowers, wines, London streets, nicknames and battles — and found a story behind nearly all of them.

Sobriquets and Nicknames

4 pages in this part of Names and Their Meaning.

Sobriquets and Nicknames

T HE list of historical personages whose sobriquets and nicknames are even better known than their proper names is very large; we must…

Sobriquets and Nicknames: George

Surely the possessor of such varied accomplishments deserved a better fate than that which befell him in the very prime of his life! He was…

Sobriquets and Nicknames: House

William Gerard Hamilton, the Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1729, died 1756), has been handed down to posterity under the name of…

Sobriquets and Nicknames: Bradlaugh

Mr. W. E. Gladstone (born 1809) first received the nickname of The Grand Old Man on the occasion of the unseating in the House of Commons…

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