Is this the name of a prizewinning showcat, or a striking but forgotten example of eighteenth-century masculine nomenclature? YOU DECIDE.

1. Charles Skrymsher-Boothby-Clopton
2. Nicodemus Aloysius
3. Felix Tike
4. Holdermanes Prowler
5. Cloudesley Shovell
6. Mordaunt Ricketts
7. Wynterwynd Clair de Lune
8. Marclich Archibald
9. Dairymaine Chestaton
10. Oneciphorus Chisle
11. Clotworthy Skeffington
12. Lesplushes Aniel
13. Crisp Gascoyne
14. Bamber Gascoyne
15. Azwegie Knock
16. Eurocastle Mandalay
17. Colonel John Pollexfen Bastard
18. Blackerby Fairfax
19. Archibald Hammon
20. Cornelius Throft
21. Quodlibet Alina
22. Arundel Coke
23. Kabao von Aristoteles
24. William Whisker
25. Atticus of Snugglerags

 

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Answers (with citations! For the men, not the cats):

1. Man
2. Cat 
3. Man
4. Cat
5. Man
6. Man
7. Cat
8. Cat
9. Cat
10. Man (plasterer and chapman, announces his bankruptcy in Daily Journal, 3 November 1735)
11. Man
12. Cat
13. Man
14. Man
15. Cat
16. Cat
17. Man
18. Man
19. Man
20. Man
21. Cat
22. Man
23. Cat
24. Man
25. Cat