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Excerpt from Tom Brown at Oxford
As to the name, which has been, perhaps, the chief cause of offence in this matter, the simple facts are, that I chose the name fbrown because it stood first in the trio of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, ' which has become a sort of synonym for the middle classes of Great Britain. It happens that my own name and that of Brown have no single letter in' common. As to the Christian name of 'tom, ' having chosen Brown, Iscould hardly help taking it as the prefix. The two names have gone together in England for two hundred years, and the joint name has not enjoyed much of a reputation for respectability. This suited me exactly. I wanted the commonest name I could get, and did not want any name which had the least heroic.
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