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This practise in the [[Royal Navy]] was a concern of the reforming admiral [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher|Fisher]] who wrote, "Going by seniority saves so much trouble. 'Buggins's turn' has been our ruin and will be disastrous hereafter!"<ref>{{citation | page=181 |title=Fear God and Dread Nought: The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone |volume=Vol. 1 |author=John Arbuthnot Fisher Baron Fisher |editor=Arthur Jacob Marder |publisher=Jonathan Cape |year=1953}}</ref> |
This practise in the [[Royal Navy]] was a concern of the reforming admiral [[John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher|Fisher]] who wrote, "Going by seniority saves so much trouble. 'Buggins's turn' has been our ruin and will be disastrous hereafter!"<ref>{{citation | page=181 |title=Fear God and Dread Nought: The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone |volume=Vol. 1 |author=John Arbuthnot Fisher Baron Fisher |editor=Arthur Jacob Marder |publisher=Jonathan Cape |year=1953}}</ref> |
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Buggins previously appeared in an [[epigram]] of [[Robert Herrick]].<ref>{{citation |page=39 |title=Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature |author=Alastair Fowler |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780191650994}}</ref>{{quote| |
Buggins previously appeared in an [[epigram]] of [[Robert Herrick (poet)|Robert Herrick]].<ref>{{citation |page=39 |title=Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature |author=Alastair Fowler |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780191650994}}</ref>{{quote| |
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''Upon Buggins''<br>Buggins is Drunke all night, all day he sleepes;<br>This is the Levell-coyle that Buggins keeps.}}[[Level-coil]] was an old party game in which the players changed seats. |
''Upon Buggins''<br>Buggins is Drunke all night, all day he sleepes;<br>This is the Levell-coyle that Buggins keeps.}}[[Level-coil]] was an old party game in which the players changed seats. |
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Revision as of 17:10, 1 January 2016
Buggins' turn or Buggins's turn is appointment to a position by rotation or seniority rather than by merit.[1]
This practise in the Royal Navy was a concern of the reforming admiral Fisher who wrote, "Going by seniority saves so much trouble. 'Buggins's turn' has been our ruin and will be disastrous hereafter!"[2]
Buggins previously appeared in an epigram of Robert Herrick.[3]
Upon Buggins
Buggins is Drunke all night, all day he sleepes;
This is the Levell-coyle that Buggins keeps.
Level-coil was an old party game in which the players changed seats.
References
- ^ Stroud Francis Charles Milsom (2003), "Management, Custom, and Law", A Natural History of the Common Law, Columbia University Press, p. 54, ISBN 9780231129947
- ^ John Arbuthnot Fisher Baron Fisher (1953), Arthur Jacob Marder (ed.), Fear God and Dread Nought: The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, vol. Vol. 1, Jonathan Cape, p. 181
{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Alastair Fowler (2012), Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature, Oxford University Press, p. 39, ISBN 9780191650994
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