Bottomley
Bottomley is an English surname. It comes from the place name formed by combining geographic terms "Bottom" and "Ley (landform)", and which refers to two small settlements each on opposite sides of a hill near Walsden and Halifax, West Yorkshire. It first appears in written records from 1277.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Bottomley (1907–1995), British Labour politician
- Christine Bottomley (born 1979), English actress
- (born 1979), Canadian entertainer
- Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet
- Horatio Bottomley, British fraudster
- James Bottomley (diplomat) (1920–2013), British diplomat
- James Thomson Bottomley (1845–1926) British physicist
- , (1971-) English engineer. A.k.a “Oldcock” “gorillaboarder”
- Jim Bottomley (1900–1959), baseball player
- John Bottomley, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Laura Bottomley, American engineer
- Norman Bottomley, senior Royal Air Force commander
- Peter Bottomley (born 1944), British Conservative politician
- Virginia Bottomley (born 1948), British politician
- William Lawrence Bottomley, American architect
See also[]
- Bottomley Home Girls' High School, in Bangladesh
- Bottomley projection
References[]
- ^ "Surname: Bottomley". Surname Database. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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