The word "father" when used in direct reference to the fathers of the church, and to the Pilgrim leaders of New England, and the word "reformers" when used of the leaders of the Reformation.
_The ante-Nicene Fathers._ _Luther, Calvin and the other Reformers._ The word "father" is not capitalized when the reference is general, as in the first sentence of this section.
The capitalization of "reformer" is intended to distinguish persons connected with a certain definite historical movement from persons interested in reform.

Many persons might consider that the Reformers were not reformers.
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Names of persons.
_John Smith,_ _George V._ But write _John o' Groat_, _Tam o' Shanter_, and the like where _o'_ is an abbreviation of _of_ and not the Gaelic _O'_ as _O'Neil_, etc.
In writing foreign names which contain particles, capitalize the particles when not preceded by a Christian name or title.
_Alfred de Musset_ but _De Musset_, _le Due de Morny_ but _De Morny_, _Prince von Bismarck_ but _Von Bismarck_.
By exception the Dutch particle "van" is always capitalized.
_Van Hoorn_, _Stephen Van Rensselaer_.
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Epithets appended to proper names or substituted for them.
_Frederick the Great_ _Peter the Hermit_ _William Red Head (Rufus)_ _the Conqueror_.
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Names of races of men.
_Aryan_, _Caucasian_, etc., but generally _negro_ and _gypsy_, by exception.
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