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Fanshawe is too clichéd,
Armstrong-Jones was the name of Princess Margaret's husband so also a little... clichéd. Plus - Armstrong-Ellis you would need to research border reiver allegiances to check if these two families were rivals or allies.

Wife's maiden name might well be the first born son's middle name,

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There were naming traditions in lowland (but also Gaelic) Scotland.

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First son - father's father;
Second Son - mother's father (tho it may be different in Gaeltacht)
Third son - father's brother or uncle;

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First daughter - mother's mother
Second daughter - father's mother
Third daughter - mother's sister or aunt.

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So in any generation you may have a slew of cousins with the same first name and even last name,
Or through the generations a slew of people with the same first name and different last names.

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John Scott Chalmers would have been born to a man whose father was John and whose wife's maiden name was Scott (my great, great grandfather). But infant mortality can skew patterns. My great, great, great grandmother, born 1826, was Barbara Ewing Maxell; she had an older sister named Mary (so we can presume Barbara's mother was Mary as proven by Barbara's death certificate in 1902) and that Ewing was likely her grandmother's maiden name (maternal or paternal) as her mother's name was MacCorquadale, - however before 1855 births did not have to be registered so I cannot find either Barbara Ewing (with certainty and the Barbara and Ewing might not go together) or Mary MacCorquadale, but I can find that she likely came from Lissmore in Argyll).

I'd streer away from Colquhoun or Urquhart as people cannot pronounce them. Your family might want also to consider whether the names below are traditionally Jacobite (supporting Charles Edward Stuart) or not (supporting the Hanoverians), and also their allegiances during the Covenanter debacles of the 17th C.

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The poshest name is of course Stuart (as in the Royal House of ...but only if soellt Stuart);

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Bruce (Robert the... King whose family became the Stuarts)
Douglas (first and last name)
Angus (first and last name)
Duncan (first and last name)
Fraser (first and last name)
Gordon (first and last name)
Grant (first and last name)
Ainsley (first and last name)

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Kelso (place name - but also the name of a character in Aileen Yempleton novels);
Kirkconnell (place name/last name?)
Cromarty (place name/area).
Moray (place/last/first name, regal name= Earl of Moray - there have been several)
Roxburgh (place name/last name)
Montrose (place name/last name)
Sutherland (place name/last name)
Dunbar (place name/last name)
Haddington (place name/last name)
Tobermory (place name but also one of the Wombles)

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In Scottish culture people (especially nobles) are often referred to by the house or estate they own or tenent. So, Tam Kerr that farms the land called Inverdarroch is referred to and known by the name Inverdarroch.

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Menteith (mpn-teeth) sounds very posh but pronunciation
Bredalbane (place name/land and earldom belonging to Clan Campbell)
Hawick (place name)
Huntly (land/earldom belonging to Clan Gordon)
Strathearn (place name)
Strathyre (place name)
Glenlogie (place name/estate belonging to Clan Gordon)
Lomond (place name)
Annachie (an - ach - ee) place name (and character in old ballad)
Alford (af ford) (place name)
Crimmond (place name, ?last name)
Erskine (place name, last name of Earls of Mar)

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Badenoch (placename - Bay den och)
Glenlovat (a name/land belonging to Clan Fraser)
Lochiel (a name/land belonging to Clan Cameron)
Seaforth (area)
Atholl (area)
Galloway (area)

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Featherstonehaugh pr Fanshaw

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Farquharson

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Ollerenshaw

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Heatherington

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Hawkesworth

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Warwick-Jardine

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Arrandale

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Curren-Teed

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Armstrong-Haldane

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Cranston

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Tansley

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Thoumire-Montrose

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Cullen-Montgomery

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Mountford-Fox

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Montford

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Paton-Ward

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Hurst

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Trevellick

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Willoughby

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Rollo

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Wallington

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Brocklebank

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Glendinning

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Drummond

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McCorquadale

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Ainscough

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Bucknell

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Hazeldine

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Dudley :)

Smith, Jones, Williams, Taylor, Brown, Davies, Evans, Thomas, Wilson, Johnson, Green

I dont know much about British names but these sounded pretty posh to me:

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Atterberry
Endicott
Burgess
Crawford
Morton
Winthrop
Townsend
Pickering
Holloway
Sutcliffe
Whittemore
Langford
Smythe
Hurst
Sutton
Wyndham
Devereaux
Winslow
Copeland
Abernathy
Cromwell
Everton
Heathcote
Marchbanks
Welton
Whitley
Livingston
Gresham
Breckenridge
Moorhead
Hargrave/Hargrove
Crowell
Hightower
Gladstone
Beauchamp
Beasley/Peasley
Heatherton
Hetherington
Newberry/Newbury
Skelton
Willoughby
Blackburn
Pemberton
Wiggins
Wakefield
Moxham
Carrington
Tipton
Hollingshead
Hollingsworth
Penrose
Rolston
Whitcomb
Grimshaw

Fenwick would be FEN-ick.

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I'm currently rotating a story in my head about English characters with varying levels of poshness whose surnames are Satterthwaite, Worthington, Forsythe, Tallis, and Hayward.