From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 at 22:29:36, MB  wrote:   
   >On 18/08/2020 18:45, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   >> One well known example in the UK (well known if you know some organic   
   >>chemistry, anyway) is that of William Henry Perkin senior and William   
   >>Henry Perkin junior -- father and son, both very distinguished. I   
   >>think  the usual abbreviations are sen. and jun., not Sr. and Jr., but   
   >>now that  we're so much influenced by what the Americans do that's   
   >>probably  changing (or changed).   
   >   
   >I know there are examples in the UK but it tends to be amongst the   
   >"upper classes".  It is far more common in the US and more "ordinary"   
   >people.   
   >   
   >   
   Then there was the version used in (especially boarding) schools, major   
   and minor. I think this was used where two boys (don't know about   
   girls!) had the same surname, regardless of whether they were related or   
   not. (I don't know what happened when there were three: I have a vague   
   thought that they might have used minimus, but that might be my   
   imagination.) At the one I was at (boarding, but certainly not a posh   
   one! Popular with service families) - by the time I was there (1970s) at   
   least, I don't know if they'd used major/minor earlier - they just used   
   numbers, i. e. Jones I and Jones II (pronounced one and two, not the   
   first and second). I can't remember for sure if they even used Roman   
   numerals; I think by the time I left, they weren't, but it's a _long_   
   time ago ... (-:   
   >   
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