Bell & Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong Bell & Spurling are an English comedy-music duo, Martin Bell and Johnny Spurling. They are best known for the 2001 football novelty single "Sven, Sven, Sven", which entered the UK Singles Chart at number seven.
Claribel Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong Claribel Spurling (1875–1941) was an English history teacher and headmistress who became a First World War codebreaker with British military intelligence (MI1(b)). She was the only candidate to score 100% on its supposedly impossible entrance test, and later worked for the Government Code and Cypher School.
Early English records of Spurling and Sperling · The Surnamestrong Forms of the name appear in English records from the late 12th century, such as Alexander Sperling (Yorkshire, 1187). Nicholas Sperlyng sat for Wycombe in Parliament in 1402, and Tudor and Stuart records place Spurlinges in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, west Middlesex and Buckinghamshire, and East Anglia, including the serjeant-at-law and MP John Spurling (d. 1603).
Hilary Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong Hilary Spurling (born 1940) is an English biographer known for her two-volume life of Henri Matisse and biographies of Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pearl Buck and Anthony Powell.
J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw (1956) · Historystrong J Spurling Ltd v Bradshaw [1956] EWCA Civ 3 is an English Court of Appeal decision on exclusion clauses, best known for Lord Denning's "red hand rule". The claimant, J. Spurling Ltd, was a London warehousing company; its name uses the related surname Spurling, not Spurlin.
Jack Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong Jack Spurling (1870–1933) was an English marine painter known for his paintings of clipper ships and his covers for The Blue Peter magazine.
John Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong John Spurling (born 1936) is a Kenyan-born English playwright, novelist and art critic who won the 2015 Walter Scott Prize for The Ten Thousand Things.
Sir John Spurling (Spurling variant) · Peoplestrong Sir John Spurling (born 1939) is a British businessman who built up the pet insurer Pet Protect and founded PetPartners. He was appointed OBE in 2000 and KCVO in 2012 for charitable services.
Spurling (surname) · The Surnamestrong Spurling is the fuller spelling from which Spurlin derives. Unlike Spurlin, it is well established in England, Australia and especially Bermuda as well as the United States.
Spurling athletes in Britain and Australia (variant spelling) · Peoplestrong Sportsmen and sports figures with the related surname Spurling outside the United States. They include the England rugby international Aubrey Spurling (1856–1945), the Footscray footballers Bill Spurling (1907–1972) and Bob Spurling, the Australian lightweight rower Stephen Spurling and his mother, the Tasmanian rowing administrator Marj Spurling, and the English rugby hooker Scott Spurling.
The Spurlin name outside the United States · Culturestrong Spurlin is an overwhelmingly American surname today, with about 98% of bearers in the United States. The spelling is older than American settlement: English archives record Spurlins in Middlesex and Bristol between 1670 and 1717, and 18th-century leases name a field called 'Spurlins' in Hertfordshire. Outside the U.S. the related form Spurling is far more common.