Scales (surname)
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The surname
Scales has at least two origins:
People with the surname Scales include:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
Scales has at least two origins:
- a variant spelling of the surname ScholesScholesScholes could refer to the following places:in the United Kingdom:* Scholes, Greater Manchester, in Wigan* Scholes, South Yorkshire* Scholes, Cleckheaton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire* Scholes, Holme Valley, Kirklees, West Yorkshire...
- someone from the manor of Scales, NorfolkNorfolkNorfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
People with the surname Scales include:
- Lord Scales, English Barony
- Prunella ScalesPrunella ScalesPrunella Scales CBE is an English actress, known for her role as Basil Fawlty's long-suffering wife in the British comedy Fawlty Towers and her award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in the British film A Question of Attribution.-Career:Throughout her long career, Scales has usually been cast...
(born 1932), English actor best known for Fawlty TowersFawlty TowersFawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Twelve television program episodes were produced . The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom played major characters...