Note 124 — Chapter XII
Reading edition
"The last two centuries have seen the practice made popular of using surnames for baptismal names. Thus the late Bishop of Carlisle was Harvey Goodwin, although for several centuries Harvey has been obsolete as a personal name" (Bardsley). Camden already complains that "surnames of honourable and worshipful families are given now to mean men's children for christian names." Forty years ago there was hardly a more popular name than Percy, while at the present day the admonition, "Be'ave yerself, 'Oward," is familiar to the attentive ear.