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From: Alex Bell <>
Subject: Re: Towns as Christian Names
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 18:21:43 +0000 (GMT)
References: <tttllh8g24j566@corp.supernews.com>, <4ad1c001f5alexbell@argonet.co.uk>, <na.66e79e4ad2.a80420pmoynagh@argonet.co.uk>


In article <>,
Paul Moynagh <> wrote:
> In article <>, Alex Bell
> <> wrote:
> > One curious middle name I came across was Blizzard, as in Thomas
> > Blizzard Bell, minister of Leswalt, Wigtonshire c1840

> Sir William Blizard (one 'z', but spelling not a strong point then?) was
> an influential late 18C / early 19C London surgeon - a co-founder of The
> London Hospital and an early President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
> I have no info on where his surname originated.

Thanks Paul. TBB would have been born c1815 Edinburgh. Don't seem to have
his parents on file, but maybe a possible connection there. Note Blizard
(or any obvious variant spelling) is not in Hanks & Hodges' Dictionary of
Surnames or Reaney's Origin of English Surnames, so must be pretty rare.

Alex.

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