"Recliner" wrote in message
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George Brown, the tired and emotional Labour politician, became Lord
George-Brown on his elevation to the peerage because he still wanted to
be
called George Brown, even though peers are conventionally known only by
their surnames. He had to change his name to George George-Brown to do
it,
though. Boutros Boutros-Ghali did something similar but I don’t know the
details.

I never knew that!

I'd forgotten all about Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Sounds like a made-up name
invented by The Fast Show ("Scorccio!") but he was always in the news in the
1990s as president of the UN. "Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in Cairo,
Egypt, on 14 November 1922 into a Coptic Christian family. His father Yusuf
Butros Ghali was the son of Boutros Ghali Bey" (Wikipedia). Seems as if
Boutros/Butros was a family name that was so important that his parents used
it as a first name as well.