have you ever considered how "Arthur Wellesley," "Garnet Woleseley," and "Redvers Henry Buller" are all names someone would make up to sound English?

"'avin' a pint with me m8 Arthur Wellesley down the local. Positively buzzin' really." Like he'd be this little man in a mac and a flat cap.

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actually along those lines "William Schwenk Gilbert" and "Arthur Sullivan" sound very stereotypical too. Like Sullivan would be this serious gentleman's gentleman who was Gilbert's batsman during the Great War, and they'd solve murders in absolutely beautiful countryside in the 1920s.

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