Joly Braga Santos

This composer's full complement of names was José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, with the first two being bracketed by Grove -indicating their optionality- and the article about him therein continually referring to him as 'Braga Santos', so that the 'Braga' bit is essentially considered part of his surname, rather than just another first name. So, he's Joly by nature, but Braga Santos for short.

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Lord Berners

There are only two examples I can think of where including someone's title in the Composer tag is probably appropriate: Lord Berners and Sir John Blackwood McEwan, since no-one ever seems to mention their names without the title.

If you wanted to strictly apply the normal rules of title-less tagging, you'd really have to refer to the second example as “John Blackwood McEwan”, which sounds fine and works quite well (apart from the fact that it means there's one more 'J' to add to the enormous list of composers whose names begin with 'J'!) [...] 

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