Pedler is an
Anglo-Saxon
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...
occupational surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
originating from the term
peddler
A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of good (economics), goods. In 19th-century United States the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exem ...
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Notable persons with the surname
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Alexander Pedler
Sir Alexander Pedler (21 May 1849 – 13 May 1918) was a British civil servant and chemist who worked in the Presidency College, Calcutta where he influenced early studies in chemistry in India by working with pioneer scientists like Prafulla ...
(1849–1918), British civil servant and chemist.
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Ern Pedler (1914–1989), Australian-born American writer.
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John Pedler (1870–1942), Australian politician.
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Kit Pedler
Christopher Magnus Howard Pedler (11 June 1927 – 27 May 1981) was an English medical scientist, parapsychologist, and science fiction screenwriter and author.
Career
Pedler was the head of the electron microscopy department at the Institute ...
(1927–1981), British medical scientist, parapsychologist and science fiction author.
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Margaret Pedler
Margaret Pedler (1877 – 28 December 1948) was a British novelist, who wrote popular works of romance novel, romantic fiction.
Biography
Initially Pedler studied piano and singing at the Royal Academy of Music, and published several songs for ...
(1877–1948), British novelist.
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Surnames of Irish origin