Not just his own name, nobody at that time could spell English consistently. Which might have had something to do with not even being able to read or write. Pe

Not just his own name, nobody at that time could spell English consistently. Which might have had something to do with not even being able to read or write. People's names are fundamentally oral and spelling is just an encoding to communicate them in writing. Being worried about spelling correctness it like being worried about the choice of binary encoding of the spelling. My name is only correctly encoded in binary as ASCII, not some bastardized similar-looking unicode codepoints, and certainly not that archaic IBM encoding! Future generations had better respect my preference! /s