Longest personal name in the world
Hello I am originally from Ponsonby having grown up in Hepburn Street and going to school at St Paul’s college and was wondering if your readers would be interested in a boy from Ponsonby getting into the Guinness book of world records for having the longest personal name in the world.
So I changed my name by deed poll back in 1990 and after a High Court ruling I was granted 2310 names and got into the Guinness book for having the most Christian names in the world but recently Guinness contacted me and issued a new certificate for having the longest personal name in the world with 2253 names.
It seemed like I miscounted the original names back in 1990. These days I live in Sydney. There has been a lot of interest in the news about it and since I grew up in Ponsonby I thought it might be of some interest to my old school and those who might still remember me and of course it’s always nice when a Kiwi brings attention to his country.
LAURENCE WATKINS
SYDNEY
