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Sturge

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Sturge may refer to:

People

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Sturge is a Middle Ages surname of Norse-Viking origins, meaning son of Turgis or Thurgis, Turgeus etc., which meant "Thor's follower".[citation needed]

Surname

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  • Alfred Sturge (1816–1901), British cleric who ministered in Devon, India and Kent
  • David Sturge (born 1948), British athlete in rowing
  • Diana Catherine Sturge, Viscountess Eccles DL (born 1933), British Conservative peer and businesswoman
  • Edmund Sturge (1808–1893), British Quaker businessman and campaigner for liberal causes
  • Eliza Sturge (1842–1905), British women rights activist based in Birmingham
  • Emily Sturge (1847–1892), British campaigner for women's education
  • Ernest Adolphus Sturge (1856–1934), American missionary, organiser of Japanese Presbyterian churches in California
  • Hannah Sturge, born Hannah Dickinson, (1816–1896), British Quaker philanthropist
  • Joseph Sturge (1793–1859), British founder of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
  • Mary Sturge (1865–1925), British doctor, known for her pioneering work with alcoholism
  • Matilda Sturge (1829–1903), British Quaker minister, poet and essayist from Bristol
  • Michael Sturge (1931–2003), English experimental physicist, worked in solid-state spectroscopy
  • Sophia Sturge (1849–1936), British Quaker suffragist, social reformer and peace campaigner
  • Sophia Sturge (abolitionist) (1795–1845), British slavery abolitionist based in Birmingham
  • Thomas Sturge (1787–1866), British oil merchant, shipowner, cement manufacturer, railway company director, social reformer and philanthropist
  • Thomas Sturge the elder (1749–1825), London tallow chandler, oil merchant, spermaceti processor and philanthropist
  • William Allen Sturge (1850–1919), British physician and archaeologist

Given name

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Places

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  • Sturge Island, one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group in the Southern Ocean
  • Sturge Park, former cricket ground in Montserrat, destroyed by the volcanic eruption of 1997

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