Heppenstall
Proper noun
Meaning
Heppenstall (plural Heppenstalls)
A surname.
Examples
A stream of visitors came to see him including Common, Heppenstall, Plowman and Cyril Connolly.
Geoffrey Gorer – recorded for Melvyn Bragg BBC Omnibus production The Road to the Left 1970 When he shared a flat with Heppenstall and Sayer, he was treated in a patronising manner by the younger men.
Orwell later wrote to Heppenstall that Porteous, "who had not read the book, grasped what was happening after a few minutes."
Rayner Heppenstall Four Absentees in Audrey Coppard and Bernard Crick Orwell Remembered 1984 He was at Booklovers' Corner for fifteen months.
The relationship was sometimes awkward and Orwell and Heppenstall even came to blows, though they remained friends and later worked together on BBC broadcasts.
When he complained, Orwell hit him across the legs with a shooting stick and Heppenstall then had to defend himself with a chair.