Mark Hailwood
Puritan names are of course the most well known for their originality – famously satirised by Ben Jonson in the character ‘Zeal-of-the-land Busy’ in Bartholomew Fair – but here is one I hadn’t encountered before: the seventeenth-century Yorkshire nonconformist and autobiographer Joseph Lister named his son ‘Accepted’.
If this seems a bit presumptuous, you might appreciate the cruel irony of the fact that Accepted had been partially disabled following a fall from a horse – hardly an encouraging sign of providential favour.
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A name from Early Modern John (who blogs at http://earlymodernjohn.wordpress.com) that I came across:
– Brodie
Could Lister Snr have got the inspiration for his son’s name from Accepted Frewen, archbishop of York from 1660? http://0-www.oxforddnb.com.lib.exeter.ac.uk/view/article/10179
Well spotted – and making archbishop with the name Accepted scores a point for nominative determinism I’d say!