My husband was lucky – or unlucky, depending on your point of view: his mother, wife & daughter all had birthdays which fell in the same week.
Sir John Mellor – a nineteenth century High Court judge whose famous cases included those of the Tichborne Claimant & the Manchester Martyrs – had nine children, all but one of whom had a birthday in July.
Interesting stories, at least to those closely involved. Sir John Mellor’s story may, indirectly, also tell us more about the life of a nineteenth century barrister, out on circuit or handling private railway cases in the House of Lords, his wife at home in the country until both parliament & the courts went into recess, free to spend the autumn at home with his family.
Not, statistically speaking very attention-grabbing, nothing much Fancy that! about them, but they demonstrate the tension between stories and statistics
