What’s In A Name?
It will astonish the average person to hear that there can be any serious “moral and social evil” in the facility with which surnames can be changed by legal process (only surnames; the Christian or given name is irrevocable). Yet the Archbishop of Canterbury, reporting to the Lower House of Convocation on their resolution asking him to bring their objection to the notice of the State authorities, so described it when regretting his failure to get any action. The Archbishop had passed it on to.the Lord Chancellor, who had consulted the Home Secretary, and had then replied that while he could understand that the facility might be used to ease the path of the transgressor, he would be reluctant to introduce legislation making it more difficult for people to do what they had been doing for centuries.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 27, 1 December 1948, Page 3
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141What’s In A Name? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 27, 1 December 1948, Page 3
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