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Society for the Preservation
and Promulgation of the Name Arthur
Purposes (the purposes are serious, the society is less
so)
- To foster use of the name Arthur
- To encourage new parents to name their boy babies Arthur
Origin of the name Arthur
Famous Namesakes
- King Arthur
links, and more
and more
- Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle- author of Sherlock Holmes stories
- Arthur
Ashe - premier tennis player
- Arthur Lydiard
- road running coach
- Arthur
Anderson of accounting fame
- Arturo
Toscanini - supreme conductor of opera
- Artur Rubinstein,
classical pianist
- Art
Carney - comedian
- Artie Shaw - bandleader,
jazz clarinetist
- Art
Donovan - pro football player
- Art Aragon,
- boxer
- Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli, classical pianist
- Arthur Stillwell - railroad
builder
- Arthur Schopenhauer,
philospher
- Arthur
Sylvester, one-time Assistant Secrtetary for Defense in the Nixon
administration.
- Art Hickman -
premier jazz innovator, first to use string bass, first to use a sax
section
- Arthur
Miller - playwright
- Sir
Arthur Bliss - composer
- Arthur Rimbaud
- poet
- Sir Arthur
Sullivan - composer of light opera
- Art Linkletter,
TV actor
- Arthur
Godfrey, entertainer
- Art Tatum, jazz pianist
extraordinaire
- Arthur
M. Schlesinger, Jr., historian and social critic
- Art Garfunkel,
songwriter
- Arthur
Murray, dancer
- Arthur Treacher,
actor and namesake for fish and chips
- Arthur Holmes,
geochemist, father of radiometric dating of rocks, proposed the first geologic time scale in 1913 based on radiometric dating, one of the first
to foresee the principles of plate tectonics
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur
Goldberg
- Arthur
Marx
- Arte Johnson
- Arturo de
Cordova
- Art
Baker
- Art Pepper
- Arthur Kennedy
- Arthur
Lake
- Arthur
Davidson
- Artur
Schnabel - first to record all of Beethoven's piano concerti and
sonati
- Arthur John Ditmar - Major League baseball pitcher
Add Your Name to the Membership (addresses of members
are purposely not supplied unless they so insist)
Dues: None
Responsibilities: Adhere to the purposes of the Society
Founders
- Arthur Gibbs Sylvester (Goleta, CA)
- Arthur Feinfield (Los Angeles, CA)
Charter Members
- Arthur Herbert Pritchard (+)
- Arthur Aldritt (Goleta, CA)
- Arthur Ayres (Santa Barbara, CA)
Members in Good Standing
- Arthur Gilbert (Santa Barbara, CA)
- Arthur Preston
- Arthur Wahl (Oxnard, CA)
- Arthur Wesley Pritchard (New York)
- Arthur Donald Haykin (Bend, Oregon)
- E. Arthur Wiessner (Yonkers, NY)
- Arthur Richards (Tucson, AZ)
- Arthur Richard Hirsch (Laguna Beach, CA)
- Arthur Percy White (Manhattan, NY)
- Arthur Twinamatsiiko (Uganda, Africa)
- Arthur Llewellyn Moore (London)
- Ezra Arthur Alvarez (Las Vegas, NV)
- Arthur Swalley (Santa Barbara, CA)
- Arthur Wilkie (Lucerne, CA)
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