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

3 pages in this part of Names and Their Meaning.

Sobriquets

HE Roman Manlius (appointed Consul in the year 224 B.C.) received the name of Torquatus from the incident of having torn the golden tongue…

Sobriquets: Battle

The Duke of Cumberland (born 1721, died 1765) rightly deserved the opprobrious surname of The Bloody Butcher on account of his merciless…

Sobriquets: Digby

Admiral Sir Henry Digby received his well-known sobriquet of The Silver Captain under the following interesting circumstances: - On the…

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