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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    You seem to have bought into this idea that tall people don't live long. That's not really true. Yes, there's a slightly higher chance that people (particularly men) who are considerably tall will die a few years before their shorter counterparts, but it's not as big a factor as you're letting on.

    Christopher Lee lived to 93 and he was 6'5 (1.96m). Angus Scrimm (the actor in drol's display pic) was also around the same height and he lived  to 89/90. 

    If you're healthy and look after your diet, and exercise etc. then your circulation should be good. Therefore it's not difficult for these people to live to their 80s, 90s etc.

    A lot of living centenarians won't have their heights on record but Philippe de Gaulle is 101 and he was 6'2 (Charles de Gaulle was 6'4).

    Bill Gates Senior was about 6’7 (2.01m) and lived till 94 as well. 

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    9 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    A useless fact. The death of Baroness Berners means that there are now just 10 living female hereditary peers (in their own right).

    The 21st Lady Saltoun, 92
    The 28th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 88
    The 10th Baroness Howard de Walden, 87
    The 11th Baroness Arlington, 83
    The 31st Countess of Mar, 82
    The 8th Baroness Braye, 81
    The Marchioness of Lothian/The 16th Lady Herries of Terregles, 78
    The 13th Lady Kinloss, 65
    The 9th Lady Balfour of Burleigh, 49
    The 29th Baroness Dacre, 39

    They've been dwindling in numbers for some years. Rewind back several decades ago and there were many more. Why that was the case I'm not entirely sure, but my educated guess would be that two consecutive world wars wiped out a lot of the men, and with certain peerages the women were able to inherit them.

    Following the retirements of Lady Saltoun in 2014, and the Countess of Mar in 2020, there are no female hereditary peers currently sitting in the House of Lords.

     For majority of peerages that women can’t inherit I imagine for the generation having children in the last twenty years or so some members of the nobility are flying out to America and having gender selection IVF.  
     

    For the current living 10 Lady Saltourn  inherited it as her only brother was killed in WW2 fitting what you said. The rest are too young to be affected by the World Wars. A couple of these do have women heirs so female hereditary peers will not be extinct anytime soon. 

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    2 hours ago, ladyfiona said:

     

    I have a cousin called Gary (but he is 40+) and I know so many Steven or Stephen's of any age. My friend's younger brother is called Steven. I knew one Paul at college and I only know Tony's not Anthony's.

    I know a Tony who is early 30 but named after his dad - but his dad’s full name is Anthony but never ever called that. 
     

    I know someone with three kids with unique names that sound similar to ordinary names but are not and one correctly spelt and pronounced name

  6. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Toast said:

    It's a mystery to me how people sneer at the idea of Barry or Gar(r)y, yet Harry has  been popular in recent years.

    When I was a child Harry was an old man's name. 

    Maybe that was why. Barry/ie and Gar(r(y were not so common before WW2 so wouldn’t have been old man names in that era. Now they increasingly old man names (Particularly Barry) they not so common. My name is odd in that they were loads of old people with it but they all had the full version on their birth certificate (Which is a timeless name) but I don’t and that version is starting to date a bit. 

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    33 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

     

    Brother in law of Julian Sands

    Ex brother in law. His sister Sarah (former editor of Today on Radio 4) and Julian divorced in 1987. They did have a son together so obviously the family likely remained in touch and that boy is now effectively morning his uncle on top of his dad.

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    2 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


    You can’t be that old if your nephew is only 21! 

    Unlikely but can be. On one side of my family my oldest aunt will be 90 if she makes it (Currently 76) before her youngest nephew is 21. 

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    On 13/11/2022 at 05:17, BabyBlue said:

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