What is "featherstonhaugh"

Featherstonhaugh (also spelt Fetherstonhaugh and Featherstonehaugh) is an English surname. The name comes from Featherstonhaugh in Northumberland, from Old English feðere, "feather", stān, "stone", and healh, "corner". Notable people with this surname include:

• Francis Fetherstonhaugh ( 1575 – after 1624), an English statesman
• Matthew Fetherstonhaugh (1714–1774), an English baron
• George William Featherstonhaugh (1780–1866), an English-American geologist
• George William Featherstonhaugh, Jr. (1814–1900), an American legislator and businessman
• Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh (1859–1928), an Irish politician
• Frederick Barnard Fetherstonhaugh (1863–1945), a Canadian patent lawyer
• Constance Featherstonhaugh (later Benson; 1864–1946), an English actress
• Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh (1887–1971), a Canadian architect
• Buddy Featherstonhaugh (1909–1976), an English jazz saxophonist
• Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton ( Featherstonhaugh; 1928–2014), an English civil servant
• Robert Fetherstonhaugh (born 1932), an English cricketer

• The Fetherstonhaugh baronets
• The Featherstonehaughs, a British dance company