People or Places? Answers.
Places
The following are all real British place names.
Thurston Planche
Melton Constable
Wendens Ambo
Swanton Morley
Charles Bottom
Burton Coggles
Curry Mallett
Linstead Parva
Thurlton Links
Weston Super Mare
Ixworth Thorpe
Bardfield Saling
Shudy Camps
Kelvedon Hatch
Coney Weston
Badwell Ash
Stanford Rivers
Miller Beach
Nempnett Thrubwell
Rubha Robhannais
People
The following are all authors or illustrators in the Portico’s collection.
Hartpole Lecky
Gerit Quealy
Maximilien Misson
Ray Lankester
Flinders Petrie
Frognall Dibdin
Hesba Stretton
Milbry Polk
Roderick Cave
Mortimer Menpes
Adeline Irby
Morison Wimperis
Lacy Hillier
David Vale
Somerset Maugham
Conrad Wimpina
William de la Zouche
Wicken Bonhunt
Denon Heath
George Street *
A map of Saxon England from Britannia by William Camden, 1594 (The Portico Library collection) with illustrations of Conrad Wimpina and Ray Lankester.
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*Did you spot our trick entry? George Street is both a Victorian author on Mediterranean Gothic architecture and a street near the Library in Manchester’s Chinatown.