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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/36536/
- Published: 2015-04-22T07:57:32.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-22T07:57:32.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

This from Brocard Sewells biography of Cecil Chesterton:

"Marie Chestertons maiden name was Grosjean. On her fathers side the family was Swiss, and was not very long settled in England; her mother was Scots, a descendant of the Earl Marshal Keith of whom there is a picture in the National Portrait Gallery. In all branches of the family one son in each generation was given the name Keith; which is how Gilbert Chesterton came to acquire it."

No word, however, from Father Sewell on the inside story behind Gilbert's first name. \[*Habit of a Lifetime*, Whitefriars: Saint Alberts, 1975, 2\]