When being created an Earl, I picked the title of Burlington simply because I had once fought a beautiful, enjoyable, challenging, and finally victorious battle on this field against His Excellency General Cox. Imagine my delight when, upon first approaching the British National Archives in Kew, I found that the neat little residential road that leads the visitor from the railway station to the archive is named
Further inquiry turned up more fitting coincidences. The road appears to be named after the actual holder of my title, the 3rd Earl of Burlington.
I hadn't even been aware that there was such a family. The Earl, who lived 1694 to 1753, was a well-known architect in his time, one of whose most famous buildings is the manor house in Chiswick near London:
Now Chiswick is where I actually lived during my stay in London--another coincidence. [:)]
Maybe it all has a deeper meaning? I always thought that I may already once have lived--in the 19th century. Maybe in the 18th as well? [:D]