Bamber

[missmoore]

If you are known as Bamber, like Bamber Gascoigne, what's your real name?? Or is Bamber a real name?!

[dot.hawkes]

It is a surname used as a Christian name, the way my Dad's middle name was Spencer, taken from the surnbame of his paternal grandmother. Bamber was used as A male Christian name from the late early 1800s, as was the trend for making surnames into christian names to add more choice,especially for boys. Bamber was probably a surname in his family.

[dot.hawkes]

sorry late 1700s - early 1800s

[Grunty]

Apparently he is not the first Bamber Gascoigne
http://www.spectator.co.uk/archive/22430/the-m urder-of-bamber-gascoigne.thtml