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Silver Screen: Basil Rathbone
Basil

Name origin: Greek

Name meaning: Royal

 
Rathbone

Name origin: English

Name meaning: probably a habitational name from Radbourn in Warwickshire or Radbourne in Derbyshire, both of which get their names from Old English hrēod ‘reeds’ (a collective singular) + burna ‘stream’.

 
 
 
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