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It just screeches 'right-wing Brit politician' to me, I'm afraid. He was John Enoch but cannily went by his unusual mn.
But ancestors trump dead politicians, so I think in your case it'd be fun to use, and actually too good to throw away on a cat. (My DH loved Katie, would not listen to how megapopular it was, and my only way of saving future daughters was to use it for a cat. But I wouldn't be surprised if one of my children named a daughter Alice or Dinah, also after cats.)
Enoch Joshua
Enoch Martin
Enoch Lawrence
Enoch George
But ancestors trump dead politicians, so I think in your case it'd be fun to use, and actually too good to throw away on a cat. (My DH loved Katie, would not listen to how megapopular it was, and my only way of saving future daughters was to use it for a cat. But I wouldn't be surprised if one of my children named a daughter Alice or Dinah, also after cats.)
Enoch Joshua
Enoch Martin
Enoch Lawrence
Enoch George
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I daresay most Americans have never heard of whatever British politician it was who went by his middle name Enoch. I never have. We Americans have had our politicians also who chose to go by their middle names rather than their overused first names: Stephen Grover Cleveland, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, John Calvin Coolidge.
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Anyone who's never heard of him (Enoch Powell, btw)or, worse, heard him is fortunate. But Enoch has a vintage feel which rather matched his outlook on life!
Another Brit politico, left-wing this time, was James Harold Wilson. James comes across as rather upper-class, or did in his day, though Jim is very populist; he was always known as Harold, which has a working-class vibe that he played for all it was worth, public pipe-smoking etc. Doesn't seem to happen in South Africa, or not yet anyway.
Another Brit politico, left-wing this time, was James Harold Wilson. James comes across as rather upper-class, or did in his day, though Jim is very populist; he was always known as Harold, which has a working-class vibe that he played for all it was worth, public pipe-smoking etc. Doesn't seem to happen in South Africa, or not yet anyway.
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