Meet Lloyd...The Bear With A Winning Name

The teddy who arrived at the Yorkshire Museum with no name is now a very happy bear, thanks to a Show Me surfer. Annierose has won our competition to find a name and chosen to call him Lloyd.

Here's Lloyd. Do you think the name suits him?

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The teddy was donated to the Museum by an old lady from York, who asked the staff to take care of him after her death. The only problem was, he had no name.

We asked visitors to Show Me and the Museum to send in their ideas for a name, and to tell us why they'd choose that name.

Here's Annierose with the teddy she was given as her prize by staff at The Yorkshire Museum.

We were really thrilled to get entries from as far afield as Holland and the USA. The difficult task of judging the winner went to the museum staff, who chose Annierose's entry as they liked the history behind it.

Here's the reason ten-year-old Annierose gave for her choice -

'I think the bear should be called Lloyd after David Lloyd George who was an mp in 1890 and later he became prime mininster in 1916 just after the war had started and Alices dad had given her the bear.'

The other entries were so fantastic that we've published a few of our favourites below. We all really liked the way you all thought lots about the meaning behind the names you chose.

We really loved this colourful pic of the teddy by Lizzie, aged five, from York. It came with a poem, which went:

'My name is Bow
I come from long ago
I have soft golden fur
And a little brown bow.'

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Kaitlyn e-mailed us from Cedar City, which is in Utah, USA. her entry said -

'My idea for the name of the bear is Prem, it means love in hindi. I think it would be a good name, because Alice loved him lots.'

This chalk teddy was drawn by Rowen, aged six, from the Isle of Wight. She thought the bear should be called 'Postlethwaite' - a traditional Yorkshire name.

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Eirinie, from Newcastle, has such a beautiful name that she thought we should it would suit the bear too. She said - 'I think that you should call the teddy "Eirinie" because was given to Alice by her Dad before he went to the war and because Eirinie means Peace in Greek language.'

The fab picture below is by eleven-year-old Holly. She said 'I think his name should be Mortimer-Nathan, because Mortimer means living in French and Nathan means a gift in Hebrew.'

This colourful pic was drawn by Holly to go with her entry, above.

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Thanks ever so much all of you who entered the competition, and well done Annierose!