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Sturge
Sturge
is a
Middle Ages
surname of Norse-Viking origins, meaning son of
Turgis
or Thurgis, Turgeus etc., which meant "Thor’s follower".
People:
Alfred Sturge – British cleric who ministered in
Devon
,
India
and Kent.
David Sturge – British
athlete
in
rowing
.
Edmund Sturge – British
Quaker
businessman and campaigner for liberal causes.
Ernest Adolphus Sturge –
American missionary
, organiser of Japanese Presbyterian churches in California.
Joseph Sturge – British
founder
of the
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
.
William Allen Sturge – British physician and archaeologist.
H. Winifred Sturge, Headmistress of
The Mount School, York
Places:
Sturge
Island
, one of the three main islands in the
uninhabited
Balleny Islands
group located in the
Southern Ocean
.
Sturge Park, former
cricket ground
in Montserrat, destroyed by the
volcanic eruption
of 1997.
Others:
Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare congenital neurological and
skin disorder
.