From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   On 22/08/2020 08:56, John Armstrong wrote:   
   > It happened once while I was at a Scottish boarding school in the 60s.   
   > Major, minor, and the youngest was "terts", short for "tertius", Latin   
   > for "third".   
   >   
      
   An uncle-by-marriage of my mother's had a brother whose forenames were   
   John Middleton Tertius and he was known generally as Tertius.  Their   
   father's forenames were John Middleton as I presume their grandfather's   
   were also.   
      
   --   
   Jenny M Benson   
   Wrexham, UK   
      
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