In what might prove to be highly embarrassing to the Prime Minister it has been revealed that the name 'Gordon' came to his father John in a drunken dream. John was having a crafty kip behind the cricket pavilion when taking a short cut across Eaton playing fields.
The event reportedly took place in January 1951 when an inebriated John was returning from a meeting of The Presbyterian Ministers Society at a nearby hostelry.
John claims he awoke with the name 'Gordon' implanted in his mind and a bottle of 'Gordon's Gin' implanted in his hand.
Seeing this as a message from God John determined that should the child, (soon to be born to his wife Jessie}, turn out to be a boy he would name him 'Gordon'.
Gordon initially was christened in the full family name 'Gordon Brown-Hatter' but on entering politics in 1983 dropped the hyphenated surname to the more grounded plain 'Gordon Brown'.
It was considered that not only was this more politically appropriate for a member of the Labour Party but more importantly his advisers felt there was little chance of a 'Brown-Hatter' becoming Prime Minister.
