Have you ever received a letter where the signature at the bottom of the page accurately reflects the profession of the person writing? Or perhaps in a newspaper you have come across an appropriate name which matches the type of job the person has. For example an editor of the Christian Science Monitor had the name of Silence Bellows.
Guy and Will have researched some more which may make you smile. Where possible we have shown where the names come from. Sadly we cannot guarantee their accuracy:
Bankers, Wallowa County, Oregon: Cheatham & Steele
Chorister, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey: Justin Tune
Gynaecologist, New York Hospital, New York City: Dr Zoltan Ovary
Chairman, Tetley Tea Company, London: Tetley Ironsides Tetley Jones
Dentist, Roslyn Heights, New York: Dr. E. Z. Filler
Phlebotomist, St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth, UK: Lavinia Blood
Plumber Worcester UK: Mr Turner-Heaton
Lloyds/TSB Bank Manager, Waterlooville, UK: Mr F. Knox
Mr. Vice, Malefactor, New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrested 890 times and convicted 421, probably a record (International Herald Tribune)
Interior decorator, Reading, UK: Derek Paynter
Municipal Tax Collector, Brazil (Financial Times): Cardiac Arrest da Silva
Funeral Director, Sydney, Australia: C. D’ Eath and Sons [Will once knew a Mrs Pine-Coffin from Devon, UK but she was an owner of holiday cottages not an undertaker]
Landscape Gardeners from Salisbury, UK called: Budd and Bush
Silent Movie Organist, Rochester, New York: C. Sharp Minor
Central City, Kentucky automobile salesman: Henry Ford Carr
Never Fail is a builder in Tulsa, Oklahoma
This one does fit in at all with the others but we couldn’t resist it: Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet, Commissaire de Police, Paris, France in the 1930’s
If you know others like these send them into us and you will be accredited with the research.
