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From: devine@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine)
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> Does  anyone know the origin of the name "Jethro Tull"?   I'm told by a
> friend that it comes from literature,  as does "Uriah Heap" (you all do
> remember Uriah Heap don't you?).  Uriah Heap, I believe, had its origin
> in a story by Charles Dickens.

  I believe Jethro Tull is the name of an early British farmer that
advocated some new ideas in farming (fertilizer?).

Bob Devine