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Names that associate with jobs

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Have been watching the preparations for the Chelsea Flower Show when the president of the Royal Horticultural Show was introduced. His name is Keith Weed!

Our French teacher at school was Mr. Croker, "affectionately" known of course as Froggy.

Anyone else know of names associated (appropriately or inappropriately) with occupations?
 
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The person who used to do our wages at the NHS was called Mr Money. :)
 

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Is this effectively what is sometimes known as 'nominative determinism'? :?:
 

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Remember a driver Driver back in the day. Chances are there may be one currently working. A mate whose surname was Beer worked in a pub for a while.
 

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I know of a Sargent Sargent who worked for the Police (most certainly retired by now)
 

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Nina Nannar should definitely have been an ambulance driver rather than a TV journalist.
 

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I know of a Sargent Sargent who worked for the Police (most certainly retired by now)
Constable is a common enough name, could there be a Constable Constable, and even CCC, Chief Constable Constable? Would the name be good or bad for career chances?

Apparently Dennis is a particularly common name among Dentists, is nomen omen?
 

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Constable is a common enough name, could there be a Constable Constable, and even CCC, Chief Constable Constable? Would the name be good or bad for career chances?
Imagine if Constable Sargent and Sargent Constable teamed up together? A recipe for confusion.

When the National Lottery launched, Camelot had a spokesman who was often on the news called David Rigg. I thought that was an unfortunate surname for someone associated with the lottery.
 

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My driving instructor was Mr Ridout (pronounced “ride-out”).

And the driving examiner when I took my test was Mr Corteen (just missing an ‘a’ at the end, which would’ve rounded his name off fittingly).
 

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Just picked up a slim volume of verses by William WORDSWORTH. I understand he was born with that name, but perhaps an ancestor earned it by her/his pen.

Perhaps the name was a coincidence, but it inspired him to write. Or perhaps it comes from a time when most people were illiterate, and in the village only the Wordsworths could read and write.
 

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Suzuki Aguri was a former racing driver and had an F1 team.
On the topic of F1:
  • Scott Speed, former Toro Rosso driver
  • Kai Ebel, RTL F1 presenter (sounds/reads almost like ”cable” - probably only makes sense from a bilingual perspective)
 

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Mrs 32475 had surgery a few years ago. Her surgeon to whom we are indebted was Miss Sharp.
 

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Scott Speed, former Toro Rosso driver
I can't believe I forgot him, considering his apt (or not, depending on your view) name. There's also Senna Proctor in the BTCC, although I feel like he was named after, rather than coincidentally.

On the subject of fitting names, there must've been a Mr or Mrs Major in the military, a Firefighter Burns and someone in a courtroom with the name Judge or Law at some point in time. I also find Marco Pierre White and Raymond Blanc to have fitting names, considering what chefs wear.
 

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There's also Senna Proctor in the BTCC, although I feel like he was named after, rather than coincidentally.

Definitely, ditto Ayrton Simmons who races in GB-3 - slightly more popular than Senna as a first name in the UK but certainly not common by any means!
 

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On the subject of fitting names, there must've been a Mr or Mrs Major in the military ...

There is of course the character Major Major Major in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22: "Major" is his army rank; his surname is Major, and his father gave him the first name "Major" as a joke. One might muse along the lines of the father having been a real fiend, and also naming a later son, "Major"; and if the two had attended a British boarding school; but "enough already" ...
 
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