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Buick (name)
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The surname Buick is ultimately of English origin, derived from the place name of Bewick, which is found in both Yorkshire and Northumberland. Later, the name made its way across the border to Scotland and came to prominence in the person of David Dunbar Buick, the Angus-born, Scottish American founder of the Buick Motor Company.
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The logo used on the Buick automobile is said to be derived from the ancient Buick (a.k.a. Buik) coat of arms, as located in Burke's General Armory in the 1930s by a General Motors researcher. The blazon was interpreted as: "a red shield with a checkered silver and azure (light purplish blue) diagonal line running from the upper left corner to lower right, an antlered deer head with a jagged neckline in the upper right corner of the shield and a gold cross in the lower left corner. The cross had a hole in the center with the red of the shield showing through." [1] However, Burke's has nothing for "Buick" or "Buik" and the arms of "Bewicke/Bewike" (essentially the same name) bear boars' heads, not a deer.
Note that the forms Bewick and Bewicke are more common in England, Buick in Scotland.
- Distribution of the surname Buick in Great Britain, 1881
- Distribution of the surname Buick in Great Britain, 1998
- David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American inventor of the OHV engine, and founder of the Buick Motor Company
- William Buick, notable apprentice jockey in the UK 2007.
- Buick Invitational
- Bewick's Swan often mis-spelled as Buick's Swan
- The Surnames of Scotland by George F. Black
- A Dictionary of British Surnames by P.H. Reaney
- Burke's General Armory
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