6 NOVEMBER 1953, Page 15

YE NEWE KNOTT

SIR,—Mr. Ashley Courtenay states that the name Westbury for the new hotel is mean- ingless.

But is it ? The word has municipal con- nections, as it distinguishes a town in Wilt- shire; historical associations as the White. Horse of Westbury is cut on a slope of Weit- hub; Down;. legal and aristocratic affiliations, as the first Baron Westbury was an eminent laWyer and his descendant is a member of the -House of Lords. Besides,, it is British and euphonious, which Knott is not. Why should the new hotel be Americanised? Let us say certainly not Knott.—Yours faithfully,