Adele, now set to claim that honour, has declined to licence her chart-topping single Hello to the potential rival.
An unusual choice of hobby means that Chloe H is currently the youngest hot air balloon pilot in the UK, gaining her licence on her seventeenth birthday.
It is the family way, Waterhouse having inherited her licence from her father Tommy J Smith, a legend of Australian racing not just by common consent, but official sanction too.
I had just read Greekonomics, her book on the Greek economy and Euro crisis, and I was so surprised by how engaging she made the dreary business of triple-dips and fiscal cliffs that I half forgot that she had latterly become better known as someone who took penalty points on her driving licence for her ex-husband and then lied about it, rather than a big-brained economist.
Davis cited "God's law" as she turned the couples away, telling them that they would be welcome to drive to another nearby county to obtain a licence, but that her conscience did not permit her to issue them one in the county where they lived and worked and hoped to be wed.
She had her import licences, and took her own crates; when there were not enough of these the ship's carpenter knocked up a few more.
Hester Piozzi, one of the most influential literary women of the era, petitioned for a royal licence for her husband's nephew to take her birth name of Salusbury.
Many of its features described by Oxenham, who visited Cleeve in the early years of the twentieth century, can be identified at the site today, although literary licence allowed her to add features from elsewhere or from her imagination.
In other words a few photocopied scraps – her divorce certificate, hotel receipts, airline tickets and even a licence for her dog.
A woman in Hawaii whose surname is 36 characters long has finally been given a driving licence with her name printed in full – 22 years after she first adopted it as her own.
