Wolton (surname)
Wolton or Woolton is an English toponymic surname, deriving from a place name (Woolton) in Kent or Lancashire.[1] People with the name include:
- Althea Wolton (née Willoughby, 1904–1982), British artist
- Bert Wolton (1929 – 1990), English cricketer
- Dominique Wolton (b. 1947), French sociologist
- Douglas Wolton (1898 – 1988), British communist activist
- Georgie Wolton, (born 1934), British architect
- Thierry Wolton (born 1951), French journalist and essayist
- John Woolton (1535?–1594), Bishop of Exeter
See also
[edit]- Earl of Woolton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
- Wolton (disambiguation)
References
[edit]- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, Volume 4. Oxford University Press. pp. 2397–8. ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
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