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Norman Spencer Knight (30 March 1914 – 30 May 2009) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial administrator. Knight was born at Eltham in March 1914. He began his early education in Eastbourne at St Andrew's Prep , from which he gained a scholarship to Uppingham School . [ 1 ]
William Peverel the Elder is the son of Randulph Peverel of his immediate family, only the name of a brother, Robert, is known. [1]The name Peverel is an Anglo-Norman variant form of the Old French surname Pevrel, Peuvrel diminutive form in -el of Pevrier, Peuvrier meaning "pepper or spice seller".
G. Norman Knight (1891–1978), British barrister Norman L. Knight (1895–1972), American chemist and author Norman Knight (English cricketer) (1914–2009), English cricketer and colonial administrator
It is a well-stirred mix of Old English, Middle English and Norman French, with some Norse and Celt, in which it is English that dominates. To see it in context, Norman French was the language of power and rank until Henry IV made English the tongue of kings at the end of the fourteenth century when most surnames already existed." [2]
Kender are a type of fantasy race first developed for the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game published by TSR, Inc. in 1984. The first kender character was created by Harold Johnson as a player character in a series of role-playing adventures co-authored by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.
Races of Stone was written by David Noonan, Jesse Decker, and Michelle Lyons, and published in August 2004.Cover art was by Adam Rex, with interior art by Thomas Baxa, Steve Belledin, Wayne England, Jeremy Jarvis, Doug Kovacs, Chuck Lukacs, Dennis Crabapple-McClain, Jim Nelson, Wiliam O'Connor, Scott Roller, Ron Spencer, Joel Thomas, Franz Vohwinkel, and Brad Williams.
Others think the name is a Saxonized form of Bryn y Gest from the Welsh bryn meaning hill and gest a lenition of cest which means belly or swelling or a deep glen between two mountains having but one opening. It could also lessly come from Pren-dwr-gwest, the inn by the tree near the water.