wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (04/30/85)
More on the name of Piers Anthony: The following quote is from THE MALLING OF AMERICA, a rather good book on the development of the shopping mall, by William Severini Kowinski, pp 219-20: "Piers Anthony Weymouth, the sixth Lord Wedgwood, appeared at South Coast Plaza [Orange County, CA] as part of a United States tour promoting Wedgwood bone china. There, in the mall court, for the first time anywhere, he demonstrated the strength of his china by balancing a one-and-a-half-ton Silver Spirit Rolls-Royce on Wedgwood demitasse cups, one under each tire." OK, this has naught to do with SF, but notice the name at the quote's beginning. It now must be determined whether: a) "Piers Anthony" is a very common British name combination, and many people, of all walks of life, have those names, or, b) "Piers Anthony" is a family name for the noble family that includes Lord Wedgwood, and the writer we know as "Piers Anthony" (P. A. D. Jacob) is one of that family (black sheep or otherwise...), or, c) The parents of P. A. D. Jacob named him "Piers Anthony" after the above Lord Wedgwood or some other person bearing those names, for some reason or another. Now is the time for a British reader of this digest or newsgroup to do a little local investigation... Regards, Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
@RUTGERS.ARPA:wmartin@BRL.ARPA (05/01/85)
From: Will Martin <wmartin@BRL.ARPA> More on the name of Piers Anthony: The following quote is from THE MALLING OF AMERICA, a rather good book on the development of the shopping mall, by William Severini Kowinski, pp 219-20: "Piers Anthony Weymouth, the sixth Lord Wedgwood, appeared at South Coast Plaza [Orange County, CA] as part of a United States tour promoting Wedgwood bone china. There, in the mall court, for the first time anywhere, he demonstrated the strength of his china by balancing a one-and-a-half-ton Silver Spirit Rolls-Royce on Wedgwood demitasse cups, one under each tire." OK, this has naught to do with SF, but notice the name at the quote's beginning. It now must be determined whether: a) "Piers Anthony" is a very common British name combination, and many people, of all walks of life, have those names, or, b) "Piers Anthony" is a family name for the noble family that includes Lord Wedgwood, and the writer we know as "Piers Anthony" (P. A. D. Jacob) is one of that family (black sheep or otherwise...), or, c) The parents of P. A. D. Jacob named him "Piers Anthony" after the above Lord Wedgwood or some other person bearing those names, for some reason or another. Now is the time for a British reader of this digest or newsgroup to do a little local investigation... Regards, Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
csw@ukc.UUCP (C.S.Welch) (05/09/85)
Appropos of nothing, I had a flatmate by the name of Piers Anthony Fenn Letcher
when I was at university.(I'm British by the way, and so was he) Apart from
indicating that we in the U.K. have a penchant for strange names, I agree that
it is rather strange that this combination of christian names is cropping up.
Since this flatmate of mine was an ex public (i.e. private in the U.S.) school
boy by it may well indicate, shall we say, an "upper class" connection. I shall
look into it...
Chris Welch (csw@ukc)
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