Named after David Herbert Llewellyn; Surgeon to The Confederate War Steamer Alabama,who was a Marlborough College old boy. During an engagement with USS Kearage at Cherbourg France on June 19th 1864 the Alabamo was sunk.

LLewellyn refused to abandon his patients and thus went down with the ship. He was posthumously awarded the "Confederate Medal Of Honor" One of any a few non-Americans to have done so.