Stanley

From an English surname meaning "stone clearing" (Old English stan "stone" and leah "woodland, clearing") [1] [2] [3] . A notable bearer of the surname was the British-American explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the man who found David Livingstone in Africa. As a given name, it was borne by American director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), as well as the character Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).

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1. Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford, 1998, page 509.
2. Bosworth and Toller. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), page 910, available from http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html.
3. Bosworth and Toller. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898), page 624, available from http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html.

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