Jago

Etymology

The name Jago is etymologically related to James, the name of two of Christ's disciples, via the, late 12c, middle english vernacular form of the low Latin Jacomus, altered in turn from the high Latin Jacobus (Jacob). Whilst the Welsh form of James was Iago, in another Celtic language, Cornish, James becomes Jago.

Variant Spellings

Iago, Jaygo

History

Jago was first mentioned as a legendary king of the Britons in the account of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was the nephew of Gurgustius and was succeeded by Kimarcus. In 1896, the art collector and journalist Arthur Morrison, highlighted the horrors of poverty in Victorian England through his descriptions of the fictional slum, the Jago, in London's East End. The 'Jago' described by Morrison was an area in which a life of starvation, violence and crime dominated and its inhabitants fought and failed to escape. Reference: Morrison, Arthur, A Child of the Jago, Academy Chicago Publishers, July 1995 Since then 'Jago' has been mostly used as a surname, it appears however as a forename or an abbreviation:

Famous Persons/Objects with the Name Jago

The English poet - Richard Jago (17151781) whose most famous poem, the four book long 'Edge-Hill', described the famous battle of Edge Hill during the English Civil War in 1642. Absence WITH leaden foot Time creeps along
While Delia is away:
With her, nor plaintive was the song,
Nor tedious was the day.
   
Ah, envious Pow'r! reverse my doom;
Now double thy career,
Strain ev'ry nerve, stretch ev'ry plume,br
And rest them when she 's here! Reference: Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900 JAGO - a manned research submersible built by Germanischer Lloyd, and also a kit car Jeep and SUV made with parts from Ford. St. Jago an island within the Cape Verde island system, discussed by Darwin in chapter one of his Voyage of the Beagle, and a hill in Ghana. There is however, no St. Jago recognised by the Vatican.

 

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