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Mortimer

masc. proper name and surname, from Mortemer, name of a place in Normandy.

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Mortimer

Mortimer is an English surname.

Mortimer (disambiguation)

Mortimer is an English surname.

Mortimer may also refer to:

Mortimer (given name)

Mortimer is a masculine given name which may refer to:

  • Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001), American philosopher, educator and author
  • Mortimer Caplin (born 1916), American lawyer and educator
  • Mortimer Cleveland (1883-?), American architect
  • Mortimer Collins (1827–1876), English poet and novelist
  • Mortimer Davis (1866–1928), Canadian businessman and philanthropist
  • Mortimer Durand (1850-1924), British diplomat and civil servant in British India
  • Mortimer Fitzland Elliott (1839-1920), American politician
  • Mortimer Hogan (1862–1923), American Major League Baseball outfielder
  • Mortimer von Kessel (1893-1981), German World War II general
  • Mort Leav (1916-2005), American comic book and advertising artist
  • Mortimer Dormer Leggett (1821–1896), American lawyer, school administrator, professor and Union Army major general during the American Civil War
  • Mortimer Lewis (1796–1879), English architect and surveyor; Colonial Architect in New South Wales
  • Mortimer von Maltzan (1793-1843), Prussian diplomat and Foreign Minister
  • Mortimer Menpes (1855–1938), Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator
  • Mortimer Mishkin (born 1926), American neuropsychologist
  • Mortimer L. Neinken (1896–1984), American stamp collector
  • Mortimer Planno (1929-2006), drummer and Rastafari elder best known as the Rasta teacher of Bob Marley
  • Mortimer R. Proctor (1889-1968), American politician, 66th governor of Vermont
  • Mortimer Sackler (1916–2010), American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist
  • Mortimer L. Schiff (1877-1931), American banker and Boy Scouts of America leader
  • Mortimer Singer (1863–1929), Anglo-American landowner, philanthropist, sportsman and early pilot
  • Mortimer Thomson (1832–1875), American journalist and humorist
  • Mort Weisinger (1915-1978), American magazine and comic book editor
  • Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976), British archaeologist
  • Mortimer Wilson (1876–1932), American composer of classical music
  • Mortimer Zuckerman (born 1937), Canadian-born American businessman

Usage examples of "mortimer".

Sir Charles Baskerville, has died of a heart attack and James Mortimer thinks that he might have been scared to death.

Mortimer thinks that the Hound of the Baskervilles might have scared Sir Charles to death and he is worried that his son and heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, will be in danger when he goes to the hall in Devon.

Sherlock Holmes sends Doctor Watson to Devon with Sir Henry Baskerville and James Mortimer.

Right at that second I would have been hard pressed to tell you which of them I hated more, Cuddles or Sir Mortimer, but I think Sir Mortimer was in the lead.

Dorothy Mortimer, a seventh daughter, wife of John Mortimer, Esq., died 14th May 1681, in the 21st year of her age, but left no issue.

You can have no idea, Mortimer, of how much room there is in the charities field for proper organization.

Both Chas and Mortimer had agreed to meet with Silver Anderson, and the moment he returned from Vegas he was setting a time and a place.

I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.

Mortimer Ostow, invited me to be discussant to a paper that he was about to read before a meeting of The Society for Adolescent Psychiatry.

Mortimer grasped the hands of the hero, and it was with some difficulty that Alvord Hendricks restrained Miss Abby Ames from getting out of his car and rushing to congratulate the successful treasure seeker.

Within a week, Ward Mortimer was duly installed in his new set of rooms, and had become the autocrat of the Belmore Street Museum.

He hoped that Mortimer would not refer to his presence at the communion service.

He told me, over a long dinner accompanied by a bottle of non-vintage wine, that it was well known that Mortimer had run up debts all over Cambridge.