claim: Benjamin Walker (actor) is a thespian.
evidence: Gwendolen is a feminine given name , in general use only since the 19th century .. given name. given name. Gwendolen. Gwendolen Harleth. It has come to be the standard English form of Latin Guendoloena , which was first used by Geoffrey of Monmouth as the name of a legendary British queen in his History of the Kings of Britain .. Latin. Medieval Latin. Guendoloena. Queen Gwendolen. Geoffrey of Monmouth. Geoffrey of Monmouth. legendary British queen. List of legendary kings of Britain. History of the Kings of Britain. Historia Regum Britanniae. He reused the name in his Life of Merlin -LRB- c. 1150 -RRB- for a different character , the wife of the titular magician `` Merlinus '' , a counsellor to King Arthur ; the metre shows that Geoffrey pronounced it as a pentasyllable , Guendoloena , with the `` gu '' pronounced -LSB-  /  ɡw  /  -RSB- .. Life of Merlin. Vita Merlini. Merlinus. Merlinus. King Arthur. King Arthur. Dr. Arthur Hutson suggests that `` Guendoloena '' arose from a misreading of the old Welsh masculine name Guendoleu ; Geoffrey may have mistaken the final U for an N , then Latinized * Guendolen as a feminine name to arrive at Guendoloena .. Welsh. Welsh language. Guendoloena. Queen Gwendolen. old Welsh. old Welsh. Guendoleu. Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio. Latinized. Latinisation of names. In the Vita Merlini , however , Geoffrey Latinizes the masculine name of Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio as Guennolous .. Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio. Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio. Spelled Gwendoloena , the name reoccurs in the anonymous Latin romance De Ortu Waluuanii belonging to Arthur 's queen Guinevere .. Latin. Medieval Latin. Gwendoloena. Gwendoloena. De Ortu Waluuanii. De Ortu Waluuanii. Guinevere. Guinevere. It did not become a common English given name until the 19th century .. given name. given name. Gwendoline was in use in England by the 1860s -LRB- an early example being Lady Gwendoline Anson , born c. 1837 , a daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield -RRB- , and Gwendolen appeared in Daniel Deronda , written by George Eliot and published in serialized form 1874 -- 6 .. Gwendoline. Gwendoline. 1st Earl of Lichfield. Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield. Gwendolen. Gwendolen Harleth. Daniel Deronda. Daniel Deronda. George Eliot. George Eliot