Imagine the possibilities for a high-toned name. J. Scriventhorpe Brown. A fellow could go a long way with a monicker like that!
It is the opinion of one researcher that this name appears to have been the invention of that master wit, Sir Pelham Wodehouse. See this LINK.
This name seems to be unknown to all the usual search tools. Scriven appears occasionally as a surname (e.g. Joseph Medlicott Scriven, 1819-1886, author of the well-known hymn “What a friend we have in Jesus”), and is the name of villages in Kent and North Yorkshire. The Danish suffix “-thorpe,” meaning village, is common in place-names in the North-East. Perhaps a coincidence, but Scriven Park, near Knaresborough, was the seat of the Slingsby family. The name Slingsby appears in several places in Wodehouse - including Horatio Slingsby, author of Strychnine in the Soup ... and Slingsby of the Superb Soups.
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