Salusbury

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A surname of Welsh origin carried by a prominent gentry family ; a road name given to a street in north-west London
2. The family name of a notable Welsh gentry line ; the title of a thoroughfare located in the northwest of London
3. Denotes a Welsh family name associated with landed gentry ; also names a London street in the northwest part of the city

Etymology: The name is English in origin, a variant spelling of Salisbury, the Wiltshire city, and families who bore it took it from that place. The branch that became Welsh gentry settled in north-east Wales, in the Vale of Clwyd near Denbigh, where they built Lleweni Hall. Over the centuries the surname spread through several Welsh estates, and the spelling stayed distinct from the English place-name. The family's most famous member was Hester Lynch Salusbury, born in Caernarfonshire, who became Hester Thrale after marrying the brewer Henry Thrale. She was a close friend of the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, and later a diarist and writer under her second married name, Piozzi.