Somerville (surname)
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Derivation of the name
Sir Gualtier de Somerville was one of William the Conqueror's knights, who came to EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in 1066. The name most likely comes from "Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer , a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais. The town is named after Saint Audomar, who brought Christianity to the area....
," a town about 20 miles south of Dunkirk in Normandy
Normandy
Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...
, France
France
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History of the Somerville Name
The name itself comes from a French village of the same name in Normandy, France. In 1066 the Lord of Somerville, Sir Gualtier de Somerville joined William the conqueror on his invasion of England, for his support Sir Gaultier de Somerville was given land in the North of England.People
The following people have the surname Somerville (or the variant Somervile):- Amanda SomervilleAmanda SomervilleAmanda Somerville is an American singer-songwriter and vocal coach.- Personal life :Somerville was born in Flushing, Michigan, and attended Flushing Senior High School and the University of Michigan in Flint, Michigan...
(b. 1979), American pop, metal singer - Andew William Somerville (b. 1975), Chartered Engineer and son of Robert Somerville.
- Annesley SomervilleAnnesley SomervilleSir Annesley Ashworth Somerville was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.Somerville was born in County Cork, Ireland and was educated at Queen's College, Cork and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was a Mathematical Scholar. He then became a school master, first at Wellington...
(1858–1942), British politician - Bonnie SomervilleBonnie SomervilleBonnie Somerville is an American actress and singer. As an actress, she has had roles in a number of movies and television series, most notably NYPD Blue, Grosse Pointe, Friends, The O.C. and Cashmere Mafia....
(b. 1974), American actress - Carla SomervilleCarla SomervilleCarla Somerville is a former field hockey player from Canada, who earned a total number of 97 international caps for the Women's Senior National Team during her career...
(b. 1973), Canadian field hockey player - Daniel SomervilleDaniel SomervilleDaniel Gerald Somerville was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness...
(1879–1938), British politician - Dave SomervilleDave SomervilleDave Somerville, a.k.a. “Diamond” Dave Somerville , in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Best known as co-founder and original lead singer of The Diamonds, one of the most popular vocal groups of the 1950s.-Biography:...
(b. 1933), Canadian singer - Ed SomervilleEd SomervilleEdward G. Somerville was a major league baseball player from 1875 to 1876. He played with the Philadelphia Centennials, New Haven Elm Citys, and Louisville Grays as an infielder. He had a .200 batting average for his career....
(1853–1877), American baseball player - Edith Anna SomervilleEdith Anna SomervilleEdith Anna Œnone Somerville was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross"...
(1858–1949), Irish novelist - Geraldine SomervilleGeraldine SomervilleGeraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville is a British actress best known for her roles as Detective Sergeant Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon in Cracker, and Lily Potter in the Harry Potter film series.-Early life:...
(b. 1967), Irish-born British actress - Greg SomervilleGreg SomervilleGreg Mardon Somerville is a New Zealand rugby union player. He is a former All Black and a specialised tighthead prop who can also play loosehead. Somerville made his All Black debut in 2000 against Tonga, a match in which the All Blacks won 102–0...
, NZ rugby player - Henry Boyle Townshend SomervilleHenry Boyle Townshend SomervilleHenry Boyle Townshend Somerville Somerville joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1877. He trained as a Hydrographic Surveyor, was promoted to Captain in 1912 and Vice Admiral on August 1, 1919...
(1863–1936), brother of Edith, sailor, antiquarian, anthropologist, murdered by IRA - James Somerville (Canadian politician, Bruce)James Somerville (Canadian politician, Bruce)James Somerville was an Ontario businessman, notary public and political figure. He represented Bruce West in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1882 to 1887....
(1826–1898), Canadian businessperson, notary and Member of Parliament (Bruce West electoral district) - James Somerville (Canadian politician, Brant)James Somerville (Canadian politician, Brant)James Somerville was an Ontario journalist, newspaper editor and political figure. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons who represented Brant North from 1882 to 1896 and Wentworth North and Brant from 1896 to 1900.He was born in Dundas, Upper Canada in 1834 and educated there...
(1834–1916), Canadian journalist, editor and Member of Parliament (Brant North, Wentworth North and Brant electoral districts) - James Somerville (admiral) (1882–1949), British admiral during World War II
- Jimmy SomervilleJimmy SomervilleJames William Somerville is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career. He is known in particular for his falsetto singing voice...
(b. 1961), Scottish pop singer - John Somerville (1939–1984), Australian rules footballer with EssendonEssendon Football ClubThe Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...
(1960–1967) - John Somerville (1846–1919), Canadian church administrator
- John SomervilleJohn Somerville (footballer)John Somerville was an English footballer and manager, serving in both capacities, as well as that of secretary, for Bolton Wanderers.Joining the club in 1890, he went on to make 293 appearances for the club, playing in the 1894 FA Cup Final...
, English football player and manager - Julia SomervilleJulia SomervilleJulia Mary Fownes Somerville is a British television news anchor and reporter, who has worked for the BBC and ITN.-Education:...
(b. 1947), ITN newsreader - Marcel Somerville (b. 1986), Musician, Blazin Squad
- Margaret SomervilleMargaret SomervilleMargaret Anne Ganley Somerville, AM, FRSC is a conservative Australian/Canadian ethicist and academic. She is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill...
(b. 1942), Canadian ethicist - Mary SomervilleMary SomervilleMary Fairfax Somerville was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged...
(1780–1872), British scientific writer, after whom Somerville College is named - Peggy SomervillePeggy SomervillePeggy Somerville was a child prodigy who learned to paint at the same time that she learned to talk. When she was three some of her watercolours were selected for an exhibition held by the Royal Society of Drawing...
(1918–1975), British Impressionist painter - Peter SomervillePeter SomervillePeter Somerville is a former Australian rules footballer who appeared 160 times for Essendon in the AFL throughout the 1990s.A ruckman, and son of John Somerville, he shared rucking duties with Paul Salmon for much of his career...
(b. 1968), Australian rules footballer - Phyllis SomervillePhyllis SomervillePhyllis Somerville, born 1944, is an American stage, screen, and television actress. Her most prominent role to date was in 2006 as the mother of the sexual predator played by Jackie Earle Haley in Todd Field's Little Children....
, American actress - Richard SomervilleRichard SomervilleRichard C. J. Somerville is a climate scientist who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA, where he has been a professor since 1979.-Early life:...
(b. 1941), American climatologist - Robert SomervilleRobert SomervilleRobert Eugene Somerville is the Ada Byron Bampton Tremain Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. He has taught at Columbia since 1969, except for a year at the University of Pennsylvania Somerville did his doctoral work under Stephan Kuttner at Yale...
(b. 1940), American historian of Christianity - Robert Brown SomervilleRobert Brown SomervilleRobert Brown Somerville was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Huntingdon in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1866....
(1812–1904), Scottish-born merchant and politician in Quebec - Robert Charles Somerville (b. 1940), Chartered Engineer and Founder of Robert Somerville Associates, Consulting Engineers UK
- Ross SomervilleRoss SomervilleCharles Ross "Sandy" Somerville was a Canadian golfer and all-around athlete.Somerville was born in London, Ontario. He won six Canadian Amateur Championship golf titles between 1926 and 1937, and in 1932 became the first Canadian to win the U.S. Amateur...
(1903–1991), Canadian golfer - Shirley-Anne SomervilleShirley-Anne SomervilleShirley-Anne Somerville was a Scottish politician and SNP MSP for the Lothians region from 2007 to 2011.-Early life:Somerville was born on 2 September 1974 in Kirkcaldy and attended Kirkcaldy High School, followed by the University of Strathclyde, where she took a B.A...
(b. 1974), member of the Scottish ParliamentScottish ParliamentThe Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament... - Thomas David SomervilleThomas David SomervilleThomas David Somerville was the sixth Bishop of New Westminster and eighth Metropolitan of British Columbia....
(b. 1915), former Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster - William SomervileWilliam SomervileWilliam Somervile or Somerville was an English poet.-Ancestry:The name Somervile is derived from a town near Caen in Normandy subsequently named Somervile....
(1675–1742), English poet (Somerville is alternate surname spelling) - William Somerville (Australian politician) (1869–1954), Western Australian politician and industrial arbitrator
- William Somerville (cricketer)William Somerville (cricketer)William Edgar Richard Somerville is a first class cricketer who played 3 matches for Otago, against Wellington in March 2005 and Canterbury and Northern Districts in March 2006. He also appeared for the New Zealand Academy in the 2005/06 season....
(b. 1984) - Kevin Somerville (producer) (b. 1976), American producer
- David Boyd Somerville (Science Educator) (b.1944)