• Lady Sybil Grant (pictured), the eldest daughter of the British Prime Minister Lord Dalmeny, in her later years, became an eccentric, spending most of her time in a caravan or up a tree, communicating to her butler through a megaphone?
• Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian, and eccentric in the 17th century?
  
• English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache?

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Miss Havisham

• the jilted bride Eliza Emily Donnithorne, who is buried in Camperdown Cemetery, may have been the model for Charles Dickens' reclusive Miss Havisham?