Jolyon
Proper noun
Meaning
Jolyon
A male given name from Latin, in quiet use since the 1920s.
Examples
1949 movie A 1949 adaptation, called That Forsyte Woman in its United States release, starred Errol Flynn as Soames, Greer Garson as Irene, Walter Pidgeon as Young Jolyon, and Robert Young as Philip Bosinney.
Ever since he announced on Boxing Day that he had clubbed a fox to death wearing his wife’s kimono, the formerly prominent Remain barrister Jolyon Maugham QC has been quiet on Twitter.
For Jolyon, a keen surfer, Victoria’s second wave of coronavirus was an ugly shore breaker threatening to dump his academic ambitions face-first in the sand.
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) In a short interlude after The Man of Property, Galsworthy delves into the newfound friendship between Irene and Old Jolyon Forsyte (June's grandfather, and by now the owner of the house Soames had built).
Once Soames, Jolyon, and Irene discover their romance, they forbid their children to see each other again.
Soames, though it seems he is the polar opposite of Jolyon, has those same inclinations toward doing what he desires.