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Harley

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Harley ♂, ♀ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from places in Shropshire and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English hær ‘rock, heap of stones’ or hara ‘hare’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’. Among bikers it has been used with the Harley Davidson motorcycle in mind.

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Harley

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Harley,
1. the principal character in The Man of Feeling by H. Mackenzie;

2. Adrian Harley, in Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, the cynical ‘wise youth’ and tutor of Richard, drawn from Meredith's friend Maurice Fitz-Gerald.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Harley." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Harley." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Harley.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Harley." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Harley.html

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Harley

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Harley Shrops. Harlege 1086 (DB), Herleia c.1090. Probably ‘rock wood or clearing’. OE *hær + lēah.

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