In the same vein but literarily, Patrick O'Brian's hero Captain Jack Aubrey is once or twice in the book series said to scour the Royal Navy's Navy List for mention of the Admiral Crichton he was sure had to be in there somewhere. He knew he'd heard of the guy.
A Page of Aubreyisms -- scroll down to The Fortune of War, about a fifth of the way.
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