This s a good one, Deskman!
With it being a name, we are going to have to guess and hope. Unless the name crops up somewhere else...
I was thinking William (abbreviated to Wm) for the first word, but it could be an "r" on the end, so possibly simply "Mr".
As for the surname: I immediately thought "Sh" at the beginning. Obvious. But now I am not so sure.
Seeing as he rarely crosses a "t", it
could be "Strxxxx".
If it were an "h", it is certainly more elaborate then the "h" in "shop".
It certainly looks like a "p" in there.
Having said that, the rounded bit is actually a little high, when you compare it to the "p" in shop.
It
could be a "k"...
What looks at first glance to be an "a" could also be an "o" - it wouldn't be the first time that he has joined an "o" from the bottom. (Back to the left-handed theory...
)
The end of it is bugging me. I am waving my hand around in the air, trying to follow the pen stroke. It is a weird connection. The last stroke of the "p/k" forms a sort of "E" which is open at the top, but whose base is joined to whatever the last bit is.
If we look at the "e" in "met" at the beginning of the line - which is his "standard" lc "e", then it could be a sloppily written "e(
x)".
However, the last squiggle could also be an "e" - he often writes "e" in this way at the end of a word.
Having said that, his "r" on the end of a word often looks like that, too.
Add to all this his penchant for leaving letters out, almost anything is possible...
But we terriers do not give up.
So...
My suggestions:
Wm or
MrIn order of personal preference:
Stroker
Straker
Stropes
Stroper
Straper
Strapes
Shaker
Let's see what the others come up with!
Karen