Family History
A History Lesson: I had always been proud of my paternal family surname. I had a proud family history. It was always been a bit of am embarrassment to me that my father had agreed to preserving my mother's maiden name of Shirley as the second part of my surname. This was particularly at school, when the teachers were cross with me they would call me Miss Shirley or DSS instead of calling me by my real name of Daniel Stephenson-Shirley. So it came as something of a surprise to my...