Wotton

Wotton may refer to:

Places
  • Wotton, Devon
  • Wotton, Gloucester
  • Wotton, Surrey
    • Wotton House, Surrey, a Grade II listed building. Originally a country house and the seat of the Evelyn family, it is now a training and conference centre.
  • Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
  • Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire
    • Wotton House (or Wotton), a Grade I listed building a country house in the English Baroque style, that was for many centuries the Grenville family seat.
  • Wotton, Quebec, Canada
People
  • David Wotton, Australian politician
  • Edward Wotton, English zoologist
  • Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat
  • Mark Wotton, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
  • Paul Wotton, football player for Plymouth Argyle
  • Rob Wotton, sports news presenter/reporter
  • William Wotton, linguist, historian, and critic
Other
  • Lord Henry Wotton, a character in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Wotton (hundred), an ancient subdivision of the county of Surrey, England
  • Wotton Tramway
    • Wotton Tramway locomotives
  • Wooton School, fictional prep school from the book, The Catcher in the Rye

Famous quotes containing the word wotton:

    “And mother almost always sighs,
    When father carves the duck.
    Then all of us prepare to rise,
    And hold our bibs before our eyes,
    And be prepared for some surprise,
    When father carves the duck.”
    —Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton (1872–1939)

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    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

    “Then, though darkened, you shall say,
    When friends fail, and Princes frown,
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    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)