Talk:Timothy Yeats Brown

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Hello ! Thank you for adding so much to this page

A question about which form of the name to use... "Timothy Yeats Brown" seems to have been his preference, rather than the hyphenated Yeats-Brown. For example, in Family Notes (pg 5) by '"F. A. Y. Brown" there is a very brief list of the Brown ancestry,  with him written  as "Timothy Yeats Brown".

Maybe we could call the main page "Timothy Yeats Brown", with a redirect from "Timothy Yeats-Brown"?

Somej (talk) 09:07, 6 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi :) This is definitely something it would be worth establishing! I'd been going on sources like the Bodleian's collection of his papers. I agree that he was definitely born with Brown as his surname. E.R. Vincent says that he adopted the name Yeats to avoid confusion with his father's name, with Yeats coming from the family of his paternal grandmother, born Ann Yeats (or Yates/Yeates) according to Marrache. But it looks like at some point he took "Yeats-Brown" as his surname: his second wife (unclear about the first) seems to have taken the surname "Yeats-Brown", as well as his children. If you like, I'd be happy for it to change back to being without a hyphen until we've got a good secondary source that clarifies it one way or the other? &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 12:41, 6 April 2022 (UTC)


 * after looking into it a bit more, I think you're right, sources overwhelmingly seem to be without a hyphen. I've put in a request to move the page back to Timothy Yeats Brown at WP:RMT. I've also found a good source for the addition of Yeats: p.72 of this Italian book says that he added it as part of his surname after a disagreement over a promisory note with his father. I'll add details about this as a new section to the article. Would you object if the article used "Yeats Brown" as his surname, rather than just "Brown"? &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 16:53, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi yes i'd fully support him being referred to as Yeats Brown in the text as well as the article name
 * Thank you also for the link to the "Storia Patria" - i photographed a few pages in an Italian library but never went back to translate it properly, it's great to have a full copy. And nice to have that story about why the name changed from Brown to Yeats Brown.
 * Somej (talk) 23:32, 6 April 2022 (UTC)