Apocryphal? Truth is often stranger than fiction!!
So ...
Name Plates ... RAF Locking, late 70s.
In the middle of the exec's OMQs on Flowerdown Road lay the residence of the Stn Cdr. A charming, witty and very astute gentleman whose only downside was a large and slightly inept German Shepherd. However.
He decided to, not unreasonably, call the residence "Hector's House". For the benefit of younger readers ...
Hector's House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Needless to say his less humorous successor renamed it Flowerdown House.