Amyas

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Amyas Leigh is the main character in Charles Kingsley's 1855 novel "Westward Ho!" He was based on the real-life Elizabethan naval commander Sir Amyas Preston. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Preston,_Amyas
I have heard the name pronounced as Amy-us [/eɪ/mjəs]
― SandyK  1/2/2022
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Amyas le Poulet is the real name of Clarence in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."
― chelamarie  1/21/2012
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A famous bearer of this name is Amyas Godfrey, a child actor on the Classic Nickelodeon show "You Can't Do That On Television". The name on the show was pronounced "Amy-us".
― laura617  5/16/2007
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In Agatha Christie's "Five Little Pigs" (a Hercule Poirot mystery), the victim's name is Amyas Crale. The television show "Poirot" used the story (and character names) for one episode.
― Laurea  7/10/2006
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Yeah, I first & last heard this name in the Poirot episode. And I kinda like it.
― Anonymous User  1/12/2007
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