Talk:George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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Why this article was originally entitled "George Lyttelton": baronetcies in the Hanoverian era were somewhat transient. Since he was the first baron, the title was known after him, but not before, and he spent his whole life as George Lyttelton, with the baronetcy tacked on late. Would Robert Walpole be more naturally sought by students as Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orrery? Not that I disagree with the move, but there was reason to my choice of article name. So long as the redirect keeps working (and no other George Lyttelton gets an article that seizes the redirect), we're fine. Geogre 13:51, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• (Oh, and grr, folks. I don't know much, but I know punctuation, and one uses apostrophes to distinguish plurals of ordinals and acronymns. Thus, if one had more than one BMW automobile, they would be "BMW's." Additionally, the decade of the 1971 to 1980 is the "1970's." This is a rule, and it's a good rule. It's so that the s is not considered part of the number, just as the apostrophe after the BMW is to keep one from thinking that it's a BMW-ess. The Wikipedia style sheet is wrong. One uses apostrophes after numbers.) Geogre 01:57, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)