Talk:Ormsby Vandeleur

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Hi, what was your source for changing the article name? I've checked a couple of biographies to hand and don't see any reference to him using Ormsby over John. Thanks, Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 16:27, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Sir Hussey Vivian's reply to George Gawler's The Close and Crisis of Waterloo published in the United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, 1833: "Sir Ormsby Vandeleur's brigade, which had [...] been posted on my right and rear in support" p. 316; "the 11th light dragoons, of Sir Ormsby Vandeleur's brigade" p. 321.
 * Cavalié Mercer, Journal of the Waterloo Campaign, posthumously published 1870, vol. I: "a handsome chateau, where Sir Ormsby Vandeleur had his divisional headquarters" p. 170; "we found Sir Ormsby Vandeleur's brigade of light dragoons" ... "Sir Ormsby cut my queries short with an asperity totally uncalled for" pp. 236–7; "Meantime Sir Ormsby Vandeleur's brigade of light dragoons having formed up in front of the houses" p. 263; "the little dip that separated me from Sir O. Vandeleur" p. 267; "Sir Ormsby came furiously up" ... "[Lord Uxbridge gave] some orders to Sir Ormsby, of whom I saw no more that day" p. 268.
 * The Duke of Wellington mentioned "Sir J. Vandeleur" in his memorandum of 30 April 1815 but "Sir O. Vandeleur" in his dispatch of 19 June 1815.
 * Opera hat (talk) 18:52, 4 October 2022 (UTC)