Amyas

Amyas is a surname and male forename thought to be derived either from the Latin verb ' or the French city of Amiens.

People

Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1560Ã¢ÂÂ1626), English politician and Member of Parliament for Devon in 1597

Amyas Borton (1886Ã¢ÂÂ1969), British air marshal

Amyas Connell (1901Ã¢ÂÂ1980), New Zealand architect

Amyas Godfrey, Canadian actor and British Army Officer

Sir Amyas Morse, British auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office

Amyas Northcote (1864Ã¢ÂÂ1923), English writer

Amias Paulet (1532Ã¢ÂÂ1588), English diplomat

In literature

Amyas Burdett, architect and love interest in Call Dr. Margaret by Ray Dorien

Amyas Crale, artist and victim of murder in Agatha Christie's crime-novel Five Little Pigs AKA Murder in Retrospect

Amyas Leigh, protagonist in Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley

Amyas le Poulet, nicknamed Clarence, character in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

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