Don't know any RL examples (John seems to have gone quite out of use, unless your surname is Johnson) but it was the same in the Master and Commander series - Jack Aubrey was christened John.
Now if anyone can tell me why he signed himself "Jno. Aubrey"...
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Date: 2011-06-17 10:25 pm (UTC)Now if anyone can tell me why he signed himself "Jno. Aubrey"...