Submitted Name Revision History

Transferred use of the surname Lyndall. This was (first?) used as a given name by the South African author, political activist and feminist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) for the heroine in her most famous novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). It was the maiden name of Schreiner's mother, Rebecca Schreiner née Lyndall. Known bearers South African politician Lyndall Shope-Mafole (1957/8-), South African-born British author and academic Lyndall Gordon (1941-), South African model and television presenter Lyndall Jarvis (1983-), and American painter Lyndall Bass (1952-). A male bearer was Lyndall Fownes Urwick (1891-1983), a pioneering business management thinker from the United Kingdom.