When Oliver George Best was born on 24 July 1879, in Lee St Margaret, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, Oliver Best, was 22 and his mother, Eliza Wickenden, was 22. He married Agnes Maud Cook in 1916, in West Ham, London, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Fulham, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1921 and Southall, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died on 21 April 1964, in Southall, Middlesex, England, at the age of 84.
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English and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English best(e) (Old English betst) ‘best, finest (person)’.
English, northern Irish, and French: nickname from Middle English best(e), Old French beste ‘beast, animal’ (especially those used for food or work), applied either as a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after beasts, such as a herdsman, or as a nickname for someone thought to resemble an animal. Compare English Bester 1.
English: from a Middle English adverbial expression of the Best, but the meaning is unknown.
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