Cluer

Cluer is an English surname and given name. It comes from an "occupational name for a nailer". In some cases it may be a variant of Clewer.[1] One Cluer family of London was granted arms in the eighteenth century.[2]

Surname

Nigel Cluer, Australian swimmer
Sebastian Cluer, Canadian film director, producer, developer and writer

Given name

Cluer Dicey (1715–75), English newspaper proprietor

See also

Clewer, Berkshire

References

Parkin, Harry (19 August 2021). "Cluer". Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-886825-5. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. G. Bohn.

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