Bottomley and its homophone Bottomly are English surnames. They come from the placename formed by combining geographic terms " bottom" and " ley", and which refers to two small settlements each on opposite sides of a hill near
Walsden
Walsden (; ) is a large village in the civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts a ...
and
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Halifax () is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. It is the commercial, cultural and administrative centre of the borough, and the headquarters of Calderdale Council. In the 15th cen ...
. It first appears in written records from 1277. Notable people with these surnames include:
* Arthur Bottomley (1907–1995), British Labour politician
* Christine Bottomley (born 1979), English actress
* Gordon Bottomley (1874–1948), English poet
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Horatio Bottomley
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was an English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his editorship of the popular magazine ''John Bull (maga ...
(1860–1933), British journalist, newspaper proprietor and fraudster, MP for Hackney South
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James Bottomley (diplomat)
Sir James Reginald Alfred Bottomley, (12 January 1920 – 5 June 2013) was a British diplomat.
He was born in London,The village being Cheswardine. the son of Sir (William) Cecil Bottomley, one time Senior Crown Agent, and Alice Bottomley, on ...
(1920–2013), British diplomat
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James Thomson Bottomley
James Thomson Bottomley (10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926) was an Irish-born British physicist.
He is noted for his work on thermal radiation and on his creation of 4-figure logarithm tables, used to convert long multiplication and division ca ...
(1845–1926), British physicist
* Jim Bottomley (1900–1959), baseball player
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John Bottomley
John Bottomley (September 17, 1960 – April 6, 2011) was a Canadian singer-songwriter.
He started in music in the early 1980s with the band Tulpa, which also included his brother Chris,Bottomly v. Passamaquoddy Tribe
*John Wallace Bottomley (1934–2017), English television presenter, better known as John Noakes
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Laura Bottomley
Dr. Laura Bottomley, from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an electrical engineer.
In 2016. Bottomley was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for increasing student interes ...
, American electrical engineer
* Norman Bottomley, senior Royal Air Force commander
* Peter Bottomley (born 1944), British Conservative politician
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Susan Bottomly
Susan Dunn Whittier Bottomly (born October 1, 1950), also known as International Velvet, is a former American model and actress. She is known for her appearances in several of Andy Warhol's underground films.
Early life and career
Born in Boston ...
(born 1950), aka International Velvet, American model and actress
* Virginia Bottomley (born 1948), British politician
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William Bottomley
Rev. Victor Montgomery Keeling James (19 March 1897 – 1984) was a Unitarian minister in Melbourne, Victoria from 1947 to 1969. He was the target of right-wing hostility in the 1950s and 1960s due to his activities in the peace movement and link ...
(1882–1966), Unitarian minister in Melbourne, Australia
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William Lawrence Bottomley
William Lawrence Bottomley (February 24, 1883 – February 1, 1951), was an American architect in twentieth-century New York City; Middleburg, Virginia; and Richmond, Virginia. He was known for his Colonial Revival designs of residential buildings ...
(1883–1951), American architect
Fictional
* Bottomly, disruptive student in Australian radio comedy ''
Yes, What?
''Yes, What?'' is an Australian radio comedy first broadcast in 1936 and one of the best known examples of Australian radio drama. Originally called ''The Fourth Form at St Percy's'', it was a comedy set in a school classroom. The program ran for ...
''
See also
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Bottomley Home Girls' High School Bottomley Home Girls' High School is a single-sex secondary school in the Tejkunipara neighborhood of Tejgaon Thana, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established as a primary school in 1946, it was upgraded to a secondary school in 1969. As of 2018, it had 35 ...
, Bangladesh
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Bottomley projection
The Bottomley map projection is a pseudoconical equal area map projection defined as:
:x = \frac, \qquad y = \frac - \rho \cos E \,
where
:\rho = \frac - \varphi, \qquad E = \frac
and ''φ'' is the latitude, ''λ'' is the longitude from th ...
