The brontosaurus or “thunder lizard” got his name from Brontes. The novelist sisters from Yorkshire may have too. Their father was born ‘Brunty’ but changed it to Brontë, perhaps to lend a grand peal of classical thunder to his Irish name, perhaps in honor of Admiral Nelson who had been made Duke of Brontë—the dukedom was located on the slopes of Etna and is believed to have derived its name from the Cyclops slumbering beneath.
