Three name weather
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What's the story with that one they introduce as Sarah Keith Lucas?
Is her real name Sarah, or Keith, or Lucas?
Is her real name Sarah, or Keith, or Lucas?
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Blimey.
That's got to be pretty rare, to end up with three first names and no surname!
She isnt married herself, even though she has at least 2 kids.
I don't know the person but there is a birth of a 'Sarah Dorothy Keith-lucas' registered in Hastings in 1982. Her father was 'Keith-lucas' when he married her mother. There are quite a number of marriages for that name going back to the 1940s.
It's not just the Beeb. I've heard ITV has three girls who do the weather - Lucy, Vera and Sammy. Surely they could manage with just one?
Don't forget there's Becky, Mann and Tin.
And the unforgettable Manali, Lu and Khan.
She looked a little plump I noticed at 555 this morning!
In Farnborough, where Keith Lucas worked at the Royal Aircraft Factory, there is a road in named after him in the Rafborough estate of houses built in the First World War to house drafted in workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Lucas_%28scientist%29
Given how scientific interests tend to run in families and the rarity of the surname there must be a strong chance that Sarah and Keith are related. His three sons also get Wikipedia pages in their own rights. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Sarah features on 'Who do you think you are' at some time in the future.
I mean who would have thought a couple would be happy on their marriage to saddle a child who was to become a future athletics star with the surname Johnson-Thompson?
I think it all started with fire engines.
In the old days, the fire service were happy to name their fire engines "Dennis."
Then someone had the bright idea of changing it to the pretentious "Seddon-Atkinson."
And then you get those who decide to double-barrell their surnames themselves, as in the case of Aaron Taylor-Johnson (he was just Aaron Johnson until he married Sam Taylor-Wood).
That's like an example I quoted. The parents may be happy enough with a double barreled name, some are OK but others seem a bit odd, but the kids haven't a choice.
This makes it a pretty unusual surname. When I first saw her on TV, I was struck by the name and the strong family resemblance. I knew her great-uncle, Bryan Keith-Lucas, for over 25 years until his death in 1996.
first name - middle initial - last name,
...so anyone using a double-barrelled name for whatever reason found themselves stripped of one half of it.
I recall that when James was the news reader on Radio One that Noel Edmonds always refered to him as JAG!
Yep.that was his nickname at the Beeb!:)