Durston (surname)
Durston is an English toponymic surname. The name was first recorded in 1641 in A Somerset Petition of 1641. The name is taken from the village of Durston in Somerset.[1] It is derived from the Old English: deór-tún, a combination of "deer" (deór) and "fenced enclosure" (tún). The most likely interpretation is "deer park".[2]
People
[edit]- Adrian Durston (born 1975), Welsh rugby union player
- Albert Durston (1894–1959), RAF officer, Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
- David E. Durston (1921–2010), American screenwriter and film director
- Jack Durston (1893–1965), English cricketer
- Wes Durston (born 1980), English cricketer
Fictional characters
[edit]- Colonel George Durston, pseudonym for various ghostwriters of Saalfield Publishing
References
[edit]- ^ P. H. Reaney, R. M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames, p. 146, Oxford University Press, 1995 ISBN 0-19-863146-4.
- ^ Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz. Retrieved 9 October 2014./
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