Sept. 25. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



287 



should perliaps be able to find one for yon. I 

 have a person in my eye to whom I would speak. 



I recollected upon sending my last letter that I 

 said nothing in reply to your suggestions about 

 l)r. Ogilvie, &c. There is, however, no chance of 

 our finding employment for them, the departments 

 in which they would co-operate being already en- 

 gaged. I have put my own Dictionary into hands 

 in which I think it will be completed, but I have 

 determined to call it only a Shakesperian Dic- 

 tionary, and to make it in fact very little more. 



Be assured of my regard, and of my assistance 

 when possible, for I am, with much esteem, 

 Your obliged friend, &c. &c. 



KoBEHT Nases. 



FAVOURITE CHRISTIAN NAMES IN FAMILIES. 



Most persons must have noticed the frequent 

 occurrence of one or more Christian names in the 

 same family. The following list, which is chiefly 

 compiled from the Peerage and Baronage of Sir 

 Kobert Douglas, may perhaps prove interesting to 

 Scottish readers. In his Lives of the Chief Justices 

 (vol. i. p. 121.), Lord Campbell incidentally men- 

 tions that William is the leading Chi'istian name 

 among the Gascoignes ; and I dare say some of 

 your southern correspondents will be able, without 

 much trouble, to furnish many other similar En- 

 glish examples : 



Blair, Alexander, Thomas, James, John. 



JSoswell, David, John, James. 



■Boi/d, Robert. 



Biodie, Alexander, James. 



Bruce, Robert, David, Thomas. 



Buchanan, John, Walter. 



Burnett, Alexander, William, 



Cameron, John, Ewen. 



Campbell, Duncan, Colin, Archibald, John. 



Carnegie, David, James. 



Cdquhoun, Humphrey, John, Robert. 



Crawford, Hew, John. 



Guninghani, William, John. 



Dalri/mple, John, James, Hevr. 



Douglas, William, Archibald, James. Sholto. 



Drammond, James, John, Malcolm. 



Dunhar, Patrick, George, William. 



Dundas, George, James, Robert. 



Erskine, John, Henry, David, Alexander. 



-Fleming, John, Malcolm. 



Forbes, William, James, Alexander. 



Foulis, James. 



Fraser, Hugh, Simon, Alexander. 



Graham, James, William, Robert, Patrick. 



Grant, John, Patrick. 



Gordon, George, Alexander, Charles, Cosmo. 



Hamilton, James, John, Thomas, Claude. 



Hay, William, Robert, John. 



Home, Alexander, Patrick, George, David. 



Hope, John, Charles, Thomas. 

 ■ Hunter, Robert, James, Patrick. 



Inglis, John. 



Jnnes, Robert. 



Irvine, Alexander. 



Johnston, James. 



Keith, William, Robert. 



Kennedy, Gilbert, .Tohn, Archibald. 



Ker, Mark, John, William, Robert. 



Leslie, Norman, Alexander, John. 



Lindsay, David, James, John, Patrick. 



Livingston, William, Alexander. 



Lockhart, James. 



Macdonald, Donald, Angus, Alexander. 



Macfarlane, Duncan, Walter. 



Macgregor, Duncan, Malcolm, John. 



Mackenzie, Kenneth, Roderick, Alexander. 



Mackintosh, Lauchlan, .lEneas (or Angus). 



Maclean, Hector, Lauchlan. 



Macleod, Roderick, Norman, John. 



Macpherson, Donald, John. 



Maitland, John, William. 



3Iaule, William, Thomas. 



Maxwdl, Jolm, Robert, William, Herbert. 



Mimcrciff, William. 



3Ionro, Hectcr, George, Robert. 



Montgomery, Alexander, Hugh. 



Murray, William, Patrick, Andrew, John, Mungo. 



t^upier, Archibald, William, Charles. 



Ogilvy, David, Walter, John. 



Oliphant, Lawrence, William. 



Pringle, Robert, James. 



Ram»ay, Alexander, George. 



Riddell, Walter, John, James. 



Robertson, Duncan, Robert, Alexander. 



Ross, William, Hugh, George. 



Scott, Walter, William, Francis. 



Seton, George, Alexander, Christopher. 



Sinclair, William, John, George, James. 



Somerville, William, James. 



Stewart, Walter, Robert, James, John, Charles. 



Swinton, John. 



Wedderburn, John, Alexander. 



Wemyss, David, John. 



E.X. 



THE LATE REV. R. H, BARHAM. 



As the object of the " N. & Q." is to remove, 

 and not to cause or perpetuate, eri-ors, I trust your 

 correspondent W. L. Jewitt (Vol. vi., p. 158.) will 

 pardon me if I suggest to him that the late Mr. 

 Barham's name was not Thomas, although it is 

 Thomas Ingoldsb?/, but Richard Harris Barham. 

 There can be no mistake in this, on my part, for 

 I knew him well at school. 



It may be new to many of your readers to add, 

 what there seems to me to be little doubt of, that 

 if not wholly the author, he at least had a very great 

 share in writing the popular afterpiece oi Bombastes 

 Furioso. My reason for saying this is, that there 

 are allusions in it to school matters, which could 

 have been given by no one but himself. Two lines 

 I have often heard him there repeat ; a phrase 

 at the end was in perpetual use with him ; Fusbos 



