Appropriate surnames

[thatonesmine]

Prompted by learning that the new president of the Royal Horticultural Society is Keith Weed, I got to thinking about other surnames that are appropriate to the persons occupation or station in life.
When my son was in secondary school the RE teachers were Mrs Dove and Mrs Furness.
Any more?

When my son was in secondary school the RE teachers were Mrs Dove and Mrs Furness.

That's amazing!

Igor Judge, former lord chief justice

Tennis player Tennys Sandgren

That's a first name though

The caretaker at my school was Mr Moss, he used to run gardening club!

@JaneJeffer

That's a first name though

But it works! Just remembered gardening presenters Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood.

Our old school dinner lady was Mrs savage and i once had a pilates class with a ms shufflebottom😳🙈

These ones always make me laugh but my favorite is the photo:

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@baumwolle

Igor Judge, former lord chief justice

When I was a child I used think it was a great coincidence how many judges had the first name "justice". As in Mr/Mrs/Ms Justice xxx or Lord/Lady Justice xxx.

Paul Nurse won the 2001 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. He is a geneticist, not an actual nurse but it is still cool.

I had a dentist a few years ago called Mr Payne. Apt

Sorry to derail the thread but this reminds me of a conversation I had with my late MIL, who had dementia.

Me: Which doctor did you speak to?
MIL: Dr Piss
Me: What, actually Dr Piss?
MIL: Yes!

DH and I then spent a happy few hours thinking up consultants names based on their specialism - Dr Marbles the psychiatrist, Dr Onions the liver specialist, etc, etc.

Turned out Dr Piss was really called Dr Bisch!

Nominative determinism seems rife among medics - DM knew Drs Body, Blood and Bones, we've also come across Butcher, Cutting and Mr Carver (a surgeon).

Don't forget Cardinal Sin.

@thatonesmine

Prompted by learning that the new president of the Royal Horticultural Society is Keith Weed, I got to thinking about other surnames that are appropriate to the persons occupation or station in life. When my son was in secondary school the RE teachers were Mrs Dove and Mrs Furness. Any more?

I went to a secondary school with an RE teacher called Mrs Dove and I'm sure there was a Mrs furness as well. Did the school start with a B?

We had a Dr Kidney on the ward when I was a nurse.
My friend's surname is Driver, his father is a driving instructor.

My daughters orthodontist is called Ms Brace!

I had an English Literature professor who specialised in Jane Austen and Romantic novels who had married...

Mr Darcy

Her name wasn’t Elizabeth though.

I was once treated by Jessica Doctor - Dr Doctor!
I didn't even go there with the jokes!

my mother's surname was Cook and her profession was a chef. This was in Denmark so the words are the same and I as a child recall her on the phone many times going my name is.. xxx Cook and profession is also Cook. She never tired of it either she enjoyed it and I suspect why she never changed back to her birth name after my parents divorce.

My GP's Dr was Dr Love

@SedentaryCat that made me giggle. Dementia is so cruel a sickness but every now and then it gives you a pearl

There's a doctor at our local hospital called Dr D'eath

It's called nominative determinism.

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