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Subject: More on the name of Piers Anthony
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 12:29:14 EDT
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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

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