High-toned names

It is common practice today for lawyers to go by their first initial and middle name because it makes them sound more high-class (or so they think, I suppose). Something like J. Benchley Mulkes of Fibber McGee and Molly fame.

It is also fairly common for people to use both middle initials for the same reason, such as Oliver H. P. Harrington on the movie (and the Screen Directors Playhouse old radio show) It Had To Be You.

I had an uncle who went by his third name. It was L. C. Garvin Green, although he did not use the first two initials.

What I have never seen is someone who went by the second of three given names, and used the initials, like maybe T. Simpson W. Smith.