Royston

English

Etymology

From a place name in Hertfordshire, from the medieval given name Royce + Old English tūn (“settlement”)

Proper noun

Royston

1. A habitational surname from Old English
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A town in North Hertfordshire, England, on the Cambridgeshire border.
4. A large village in Barnsley borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3611).
5. A suburb of Glasgow, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6066).
6. A seaside hamlet on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
7. A city in Franklin, Hart and Madison Counties, Georgia in the United States.
8. A ghost town in Fisher County, Texas, United States.

Quotations

1. • 1838 Thomas Miller, Royston Gower, or, The Days of King John, Henry Colburn, London, page 235:

     Royston Gower was the man to whom De Marchmont had trusted this mission; he was a hardy old soldier, one who had been to the Holy Land, and seen blood spilt as plentifully as water; - - -