Towneley
Proper noun
Meaning
Towneley (plural Towneleys)
A surname from Old English.
Examples
The deadbeat escapement invented in 1675 by Richard Towneley and popularized by George Graham around 1715 in his precision "regulator" clocks gradually replaced the anchor escapement Milham 1945, p.181, 441 and is now used in most modern pendulum clocks.
It was once thought that this anonymous author wrote a series of 32 plays (each averaging about 384 lines) called the Towneley Cycle.