Herrick

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  • Herrick or Eric: Jonathan Swift's mother was Abigail Herrick or Erick
    • F. Elrington Ball [055.36]: The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., vol. I, 37 (1910): 'the name is spelt variously Herrick and Erick')
  • Earwicker: this English surname is correctly pronounced Erricker
  • Herrick: Robert Herrick (1591-1674), English poet, wrote about 1200 poems, mostly religious