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 Full Name  

D H Lawrence's full name was ""David Herbert Lawrence"" and NOT ""David Herbert Richards Lawrence"".

It is not acceptable for Wikipedia authors to simply cite sources  - not all sources provide reliable information, however reasonable they may at first sight seem - as is the case here. For anyone who wants to check this then they can go to the ""freebmd"" website and search for ""David H Lawrence"" born in 1885. The reader will see that the birth of ""Lawrence, David Herbert"" was registered in Basford registration district in the December quarter of 1885, and the page showing the birth registration can be downloaded. There are no other names. Perhaps (I am not an expert on this author by any means) he added the name ""Richards"" at some point, but it was certainly not a part of his official name and indeed the author's marriage in 1914 is also registered as ""David Herbert Lawrence"" (this can also be verified on the same website). Surely, this ought to be obvious anyway - if the author's full name was ""David Herbert Richards Lawrence"" then he would have been known as ""DHR"" Lawrence.   

New topics go at the end of talk pages, not the beginning. And the ""freebmd"" website is reliable why?   "