Did patronage lineages have names?

Did these patronage lineages have names?

The names were informal labels developed by historians, sometimes in conversation with colleagues.

Alex Clarke distinguishes his own names for patronage groups from official naval terminology. Some labels emerged in conversations with colleagues including Andrew Lambert. He identifies an engineering lineage beginning in the 1880s or 1890s and claims it supplied most senior engineering officers for more than a century. The dating and prevalence remain his account of the pattern, without a list of members in this exchange.