Lives of the First World War

Leo de Orellana Tollemache was the sixth son of the second marriage of the Reverend Ralph William Lyonel Tollemache, a clergyman who distinguished himself by the steadily increasing strings of names bestowed upon his fifteen children, and by his doubling his surname to Tollemache-Tollemache in 1876, three years before Leo’s birth. Leo was born on 19 November 1879 at South Witham, near Grantham in Lincolnshire and was given the Christian names Leo Quintus Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet. Add to this string the surname Tollemache-Tollemache, and it is hardly surprising that in 1908, he abbreviated it, by Deed Poll, to Leo de Orellana Tollemache-Tollemache.

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