around, I found that Chandler was an English
surname meaning one who makes and sells candles—a good person to know during an
age without electricity. In fact, a man
by the name of Chandler was aboard the ship Hercules that in 1610 landed in a
place later known as Jamestown.
Attebury, too, is an English surname and means , “the dweller at the
borough.” An Attebury of note popped up
in one Francis Attebury (1663-1732) who was the Dean of Carlisle and later in
life, the Dean of Westminster. Churchill
withstanding (no need to go there), the big one is Beckett—as in Thomas
Beckett, as in Saint Thomas of Canterbury—who was the Archbishop of Canterbury
from 1162 until his murder in 1170 by the king’s knights right there in the
cathedral. (I visited Canterbury
Cathedral a few years ago and stood where Beckett was slain.) Apparently, he and King Henry II of England
didn’t get along. Beckett had the king
in a tizzy, and the rumor goes that Henry II, thinking aloud, said, “Will no
one rid me of this turbulent priest?” A
few knights overheard him, took it as a command, and did the dirty deed,
cheaply (for you AC/DC fans). Now, while Godiva, or Lady Godiva, is not a
street in Canterbury...
from "Bridge of Doon"--2011
