Forgive me please, all you astronomy experts, for this is not my field, but tell me if you will - what was/is the covention for naming the moons of the planet Uranus?
OK, the recently discovered ones just followed the pattern, I presume, but why Miranda and Ariel and Oberon and all the others in the first place? Who chose the names back when? And was it out of deference to us arts students or what?

I'm not an expert either but I think it was all quite arbitrary and arrived at by the various scientific societies of the 18th and 19th centuries. These were composed mainly of people with classical educations so leaned heavily on Greek and Roman myth, and European classics. for example Uranus' satellites are named after some of Shakespeare's and Pope's characters. But one astrononer wanted to name Uranus after George III of England, but got outvoted.