Horton (surname)

Horton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, deriving from the common English place-name Horton. It derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.[1]

List of people surnamed Horton

Fictional characters

gollark: That wouldn't actually work.
gollark: I don't see why the binary would help.
gollark: no u.
gollark: So recompiling MultiMC has *not* made it work. What joy.
gollark: Apparently a software update *somehow* made all the Qt applications I have installed segfault, so I'm recompiling MultiMC right now in the vague hope that it will fix it.

References

  1. Watts, Victor (Editor) (2004). "HORTON". The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

See also

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