Talk:Margaret Benn, Viscountess Stansgate

Incorrect display name
Can someone please explain why Lady Benn has been given the display name "Margaret Wedgwood Benn"? Her husband's surname wasn't "Wedgwood Benn", it was just "Benn"; "Wedgwood" was his second given name. (His father's surname, and on up the tree, was just "Benn", as was that of all of his father's siblings.) And wives don't take their husbands' middle name as part of their married name. As it states in her husband's article, "He was given the name Wedgwood because his mother, Elizabeth (Lily) Pickstone, was distantly linked to Josiah Wedgwood of the pottery family." So despite the pretense of giving her son the given name of "Wedgwood", because she happened to be "distantly linked" to it (whatever that might entail) it was never, AFAIK, part of her legal name unless she at some point in her adult life she legally changed it; she certainly wasn't born with it as part of her name. Bricology (talk) 08:28, 12 June 2016 (UTC)