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Originally Posted by HarryT
Multiple word surnames aren't that unusual. Eg Arthur Conan Doyle's surname was "Conan Doyle", not "Doyle" (ie he should be sorted under "C", not "D"), and Alexander McCall Smith's surname is "McCall Smith" ("M", not "C").
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The Spencer family who succeeded to the Dukedom of Marlborough obtained permission in 1817 to call themselves Spencer-Churchill, in memory of the 1st Duke, John Churchill.
But many members of the family, most notably Winston, have dropped the hyphen, and are generally listed under "Churchill", rather than Spencer-Churchill or Spencer Churchill.
The 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to "Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill".