Talk:Milsom Rees

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There was a request to move this page back to John Milsom Rees. I have declined to enact it based on the comments of the original mover that he was "known by his middle name". If this be true it is a question of WP:COMMONNAME and best settled by discussion. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As the proposer of the move back to "John Milsom Rees", I will, on re-consideration, concede on this one. Although most of the more modern references to him (i.e. post his knighthood) refer to him as "Sir John Milsom Rees", it seems irrefutable that he was known during his heyday, even officially, as "Milsom Rees" without the John. See these entries from The London Gazette:

10 Jun 1910 : Milsom Rees, Esq., F.R.C.S. (appointed Laryngologist to His Majesty's Household)
19 Jun 1911 : Milsom Rees, Esq., F.R.C.S. (created Commander of the Royal Victorian Order)
19 Feb 1916 : Milsom Rees, Esq., C.V.O., F.R.C.S. (knighted)
12 Mar 1918 : Sir Milsom Rees, C.V.O., F.R.C.S. (mentioned)
01 Jan 1923 : Sir Milsom Rees, C.V.O. (created Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order)
04 Jun 1934 : Sir Milsom Rees, K.C.V.O. (created Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)

--Picapica (talk) 10:59, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quite possible. There are other examples of this with eminent Welsh people who have common names but unusual middle names, e.g. Henry Brinley Richards is often just known as "Brinley Richards" and Henry Walford Davies as Walford Davies. Deb (talk) 22:16, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]