Ackroyd
Proper noun
Meaning
Ackroyd (plural Ackroyds)
A surname from Middle English.
Examples
According to Ackroyd, other than these, perhaps the most important literary influence on him was derived from the fables of The Arabian Nights.
According to historian Peter Ackroyd, "a public lavatory on London Bridge showered its contents directly onto the river below, and latrines were built over all the tributaries that issued into the Thames."
Ackroyd, Peter, Blake, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995, p. 82 William and Catherine's first daughter and last child might be Thel described in The Book of Thel who was conceived as dead.
Ackroyd, Blake, p. 391 John Linnell erased sexual imagery from a number of Blake's drawings.
… Ackroyd manages to raise most of the ongoing debates about Shakespeare, often subtly, often humorously."
And I teach Murder of Roger Ackroyd regularly too!