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Merton

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Merton outer borough (1991 pop. 161,800) of Greater London, SE England. The area is largely residential with some industry, including tanning and the manufacture of silk and calico prints, varnish and paint, and toys. An annual fair dating from Elizabethan times is held within the borough at Mitcham, and one of the largest mosques in Europe is in Morden. Merton also contains Wimbledon, England's tennis headquarters; the first Wimbledon Championship match took place in 1877. Cricket and golf matches are also played. George Eliot lived in Wimbledon. Merton has remains of a priory that was founded in 1115 and destroyed by Thomas Cromwell . Walter de Merton , Lord High Chancellor to Henry III and founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Thomas à Becket were educated at the priory. Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton lived together in Merton Park.

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Merton

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Merton ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of several places named in Old English as mere tūn ‘settlement by the lake’. Use as a given name may have been influenced by its similarity in sound to the traditional given name Martin.

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