Amyas

Amyas is a surname and male forename thought to be derived either from the Latin verb amare or the French city of Amiens.

People

Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1560–1626), English politician and Member of Parliament for Devon in 1597
Amyas Borton (1886–1969), British air marshal
Amyas Connell (1901–1980) , New Zealand architect
Amyas Godfrey, Canadian actor
Sir Amyas Morse, British auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office
Amyas Northcote (1864–1923), English writer
Amias Paulet (1532–1588), English diplomat

In literature

Amyas Burdett, architect and love interest in Call Dr. Margaret by Ray Dorien
Amyas Crale, artist and victim of murder in Agatha Christie's crime-novel Five Little Pigs AKA Murder in Retrospect
Amyas Leigh, protagonist in Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
Amyas le Poulet, nicknamed Clarence, character in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

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gollark: Most people have VDSL which does something like 34Mbps max.

gollark: Yes, most of the infrastructure is ancient copper cables.

gollark: Gigabit Ethernet can consistently deliver 1Gbps basically regardless of conditions and is widely supported and various fibre optic standards can do 10Gbps or 40Gbps (much higher is ridiculously expensive).

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