He has now replaced Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, who oversaw the Princess Diana death commission.
Is Britain really populated by characters from P.G. Wodehouse books?
I so want to name a cat that!
Was his nickname “Brazen” ?
He comes from a long line of Husseys.
I wonder if Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington is married? I’d love to be Baroness Stevens of Kirkwhelpington–I’d glare haughtily at the peasantry through a diamond-studded lorgnette!
Is it possible for a man to be a hussey? I thought that only women could be husseys.
That was hilarious, Eve. Thanks! 
Was his wife named Olivia, perchance?
I still remember Zonker’s (purchased) British noble title in Doonesbury: Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade Brixham. Wacky and whimsical, sure, but not so much that there might not actually be a lordling out there somewhere with such a moniker.
he was invariably known as Duke Hussey
My current favorite American name is that of our current Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne. It sounds like a made-up Monty Python name, though it’s not as good as Eve’s choice. The British always win the Ridiculous Name Contests.
Slight nitpick
His title was Baron Hussey of North Bradley. He should therefore have been referred to as Lord Hussey, not Lord Marmaduke Hussey. It’s a common mistake in newspapers.
Oh, darling, like you’d need an excuse to do that in the first place. 
and only a Life Peer, which is not a proper Lord at all (in my book, anyway).
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I met Duke Hussey once, years ago. He seemed a nice enough person, and was rather smarter than he was given credit for being. It wasn’t his fault he was called Marmaduke, and he never used the full name anyway.
No, wasn’t Olivia married to Dean Martin, Jr? The handsome pilot who crashed into a mountain and before that was the lead singer of a 60’s pop group.
Marmaduke’s wife - widow now - is Lady Susan Hussey, a lady in the Queen’s household. The decedent was not “Lord Maraduke Hussey.” That’s incorrect: he was “Lord Hussey.” (If there were other Lords Hussey you could speak of him as “Marmaduke, Lord Hussey” to differentiate him from the others but as he was a Life Peer and neither inherited nor passed down the title, that’s a quibble.)
Susan, on the other hand, can properly be referred to (now this gets complicated, so bear with me) either as Lady Susan Hussey or just Lady Hussey. That’s because she is the daughter of an earl and holds the title “Lady” in her own right. As the daughter of an earl, she holds a rank equivalent to that of a viscountess, which is one degree above that of a baron. That means she outranks her husband, who was a baron, and therefore she was entitled to call herself either “Lady Hussey” (which means she was adopting her husband’s rank), or “Lady Susan Hussey,” (which indicates she was keeping her own, slightly more elevated, rank.) I believe she was known as “Lady Susan Hussey” even after her husbamd was ennobled.
A couple of other British knights with silly names for your collection :
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Sir Rhodes Boyson He looks like this : http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/candidates/photos/85.jpg
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Sir Menzies Campell (pronounced Mingiss)
Another goody:
Sigh…
Oh, yeah, but come on–if you’ve got a “Marmaduke” in your name, there’s no way people are going to let that go to waste.
A friend named her son “Oscar”. She wanted his middle name to be “Marmaduke” but her family talked her out of it.
I kinda hope Marmaduke aspires to a title on the continent, say, in Denmark. Then he could seize power and rule as “Marmaduke, the Great Dane.”