Featherstonhaugh
Featherstonhaugh, also spelt Fetherstonhaugh and Featherstonehaugh, is an old English surname that was originally Fetherston. The name comes from Featherstone Castle in Northumberland, from the Old English {{lang|ang|feðere}}, 'feather', {{lang|ang|stān}}, 'stone', and {{lang|ang|healh}}, 'corner'.{{cite book |last=Fancher |first=Patrick A. |date=2013 |title=Diana, Princess of the Royal Forest of the Peak: From Domesday to Derbyshire with the Eyres, Fanshawes, Featherstonehaughs, and Fanchers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mW3tBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |publisher=Lulu |pages=39–48 |isbn=978-1-300-88178-0 }}
The name is usually pronounced as speltDebrett's Correct Form, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 1976, p. 381{{cite news |last1=Doughty |first1=Eleanor |title=How to pronounce English names, from Belvoir to Featherstonhaugh |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/comment-opinion/how-do-you-pronounce-belvoir-featherstonhaugh-and-bagehot-227460 |access-date=12 November 2024 |work= Country Life |date=29 May 2021 |language=en}} though commonly shortened to Fetherston.{{cite news |title=How Do You Pronounce Fetherstonehaugh? B.B.C. Announcers Have Now Got The Key |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003150/19390413/068/0004 |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=Bradford Observer |date=13 April 1939 |page=4}} The popularly known pronunciation of {{respell|FAN|shaw}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|æ|n|ʃ|ɔː}}) originated with Irish holders of the name. Other pronunciations include {{respell|FEE|stun|hay}} or {{respell|FEE|ster|hay}}.{{cite news |title=Is Your Name? FEATHERSTONE. |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003329/19300919/247/0018 |access-date=12 November 2024 |work=Leicester Evening Mail |date=19 September 1930 |page=18}}{{cite journal |last1=M. |first1=O. |title=Featherstonehaugh |journal=Plum Lines|date=Summer 2001 |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=13 |url=http://www.wodehouse.org/extra/PL/PL_v22_nr2.pdf |access-date=12 November 2024}}
Notable people
- Francis Fetherston ({{circa|1575}} – after 1624), an English statesman
- George William Featherstonhaugh (1780–1866), an English-American geologist
- George W. Featherstonhaugh Jr. (1814–1900), an American legislator and businessman
- Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh (1859–1928), an Irish politician
- F. B. Fetherstonhaugh (1863–1945), a Canadian patent lawyer
- Constance Featherstonhaugh (later Benson; 1864–1946), an English actress
- Francis Featherstonhaugh Johnston (1891–1963), an Anglican bishop of Egypt
- Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh (1887–1971), a Canadian architect
- Buddy Featherstonhaugh (1909–1976), an English jazz saxophonist
- Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton (1928–2014), an English civil servant
- Robert Fetherstonhaugh (born 1932), an English cricketer
- Alexander Featherstonhaugh Wylie (born 1951), a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Fetherstonhaugh baronets
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- Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh (1714–1774), 1st Baronet
- Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh, known as Harry (1754–1846), 2nd Baronet
Artistic and fictional works
- The Featherstonehaughs, a British dance company
- "Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh", an episode of the TV series Nanny and the Professor.
- Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge (the middle name pronounced "Fanshaw"), a fictional character in the short stories of P. G. Wodehouse.
- Marcus Featherstone's terrier "Foon" ("written 'Featherstonehaugh'") in the detective novel Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham (1931).
- Harry Featherstonhaugh in the Lady Hardcastle Mystery Books by T.E. Kinsey.
- Piers Featherstonehaugh is the protagonist in the game The Gene Machine.
- In E. M. Forster's Maurice, Clive Durham refers to a Featherstonhaugh who has a pianola. In the film, he pronounces it "Feestonhay".