Who Was Horace?

[Pompeyla33]

When growing up around Pompey people would affectionately refer to other people as Horace. As in 'come on Horace, we're going to be late', or 'Horace over there has the keys'.

[ToraToraTora]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace

[douglas9401]

He was the brains of the family in The Broons.

[burlyshirley1]

It was common in my neck of the woods too (north west England). We used to call people Horace in a jokey way !