Word: trenchard
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...sort of legal conundrum that could exist only in a country that still has titles and a nobility. The two opposing claimants in the case sat stone-faced in the chamber, refusing to meet each other: Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, 54, a prosperous London theater producer, and John Hugo Trenchard Russell, 25, an accountant who may-or may not-be Geoffrey's half brother...
...Cato," the nom de plume of the early 18th century Whigs Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, who wrote Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious. Also for Cato the Censor, the Roman statesman. Publius, whose name was taken by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, was a Roman moralist of the 1st century...