William N. Bilbo (circa 1815–1867) was an American attorney, journalist, and entrepreneur. He lived in Tennessee until 1864, when he moved north. Bilbo is best remembered for helping Secretary of State William H. Seward lobby for passage of a constitutional amendment banning slavery.

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William Beroza is an American lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.Beroza played lacrosse at Hempstead High School and was an All-Division honoree. After graduating high school, he was the goalie for Roanoke College where he was honored as Honorable Mention All-American in 1976 and Second Team All-American in 1977. In his senior year, he helped lead the team to the NCAA Division II/III semi-finals where he set an NCAA record 30 saves in a playoff game. In 1987, he was inducted into the Roanoke College Athletic Hall of Fame. During the next 20 years, Beroza played for numerous different post-collegiate club teams, winning many honors and championships, including Player of the Year in 1978 and Championship Game Most Valuable Player in 1980. In 1982, he was named to the USA national team.Since college and as part of the LILC, Bill was a three time member of the USA Lacrosse Team (1978-Alternate, 1982-Goalie, 1986-Alternate). As a co-captain of the USA team, Bill was a member of the 1982 World Championship team that defeated Australia in the summer of 1982 in Baltimore, MD. He was also an alternate to the team in 1978 and 1986. In 1998, Beroza was named an assistant coach to the 1998 World Lacrosse Tournament's USA Team. That team went on to defeat Team Canada, 14-12, in the Championship Game. In 1996, William Beroza was inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1996. Beroza started two professional lacrosse teams and played for both: the NJ Saints (now the NY Saints) and the Detroit Turbos. Beroza was an assistant coach of the Leopards at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston Ma for 4 seasons. William was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.Beroza currently serves as the head coach of lacrosse team. The Israeli Men's Team finished in 7th place at the 2014 Lacrosse World Championships in Denver, CO. As one of the original board members, Bill Beroza continues to focus on growing lacrosse in Israel at the grass roots level, to bring lacrosse to any child, boy or girl that wants to play in Israel.

William Besse (born 10 March 1968 in Bruson) is a Swiss former alpine skier. He took four wins and 13 podiums in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, all of them in the downhill discipline, including winning the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen in 1994. He retired from competition in 1999, in part because he struggled to adapt to the introduction of carving skis in the mid-1990s.

William Baxter Godbey (June 3, 1833 - September 12, 1920) was a Wesleyan evangelist.

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Admiral William Alexander Baillie-Hamilton (6 June 1803 – 1 October 1881) was a British naval commander. He served on the Arctic Council when it was searching for Sir John Franklin.

Sir William Barrott Montfort Bird (11 July 1855 – 13 November 1950) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician.The son of William Frederic Wratislaw Bird, of Wilmington in Kent, he was educated at Bruce Castle School, and admitted as a solicitor 1880. He was a director of Williams Deacon's Bank, and of other companies, and was Justice of the Peace for West Sussex. In 1895 he married Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Spencer, and widow of James H. Murray.He was elected unopposed as Member of Parliament for Chichester at a by-election in April 1921 following the resignation of the sitting Conservative MP Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot, who had been appointed as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.At the 1922 general election, Bird was re-elected with a massive majority over his only opponent, a Labour Party candidate. However, he faced a Liberal Party opponent for the first time at the 1923 general election, and lost his seat. He did not stand for Parliament again.

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William Batty (1801–1868) was an equestrian performer, circus proprietor, and longtime operator of Astley's Amphitheatre in London. Batty was one of the most successful circus proprietors in Victorian England and helped launch the careers of a number of leading Victorian circus personalities, such as Pablo Fanque, the versatile performer and later circus proprietor (best known today from his mention in The Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), and W.F.

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William Bather (12 December 1861 – 3 January 1939) was an English cricketer. He played six first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1882 and 1883.

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William Lennox Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst (14 February 1791 – 24 February 1878), styled The Honourable William Bathurst from 1794 to 1866, was a British peer, Tory Member of Parliament and civil servant.Bathurst was the second son of Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and his wife Lady Georgina (née Lennox). He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1812.

William Bates, or William Bate, (died November 8, 1700) and other Quakers emigrated from Ireland to Gloucester County (now Camden County), New Jersey where in 1682 they established Newton Colony, the third English settlement in West Jersey. William Bates was the first English-speaking settler of present-day Oaklyn, New Jersey.

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Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS (6 April 1864 – 23 January 1934) was a British biologist and food scientist. The William Bate Hardy Prize is named in his honour.

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William R. Bascom (1912–1981) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and museum director.

William Bayard (21 August 1814 – 17 December 1907) was a distinguished physician in New Brunswick. He was the son of Dr. Robert Bayard, also a noted physician and author.Bayard was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, and received his medical training in New York State and at the University of Edinburgh. He received his MD in 1837. He then practiced medicine with his father, Robert Bayard, in Saint John, New Brunswick and continued the practice after his father's death. He was the coroner of that city for 30 years.

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Sir William Barrott Montfort Bird (11 July 1855 – 13 November 1950) was a British solicitor and Conservative Party politician.The son of William Frederic Wratislaw Bird, of Wilmington in Kent, he was educated at Bruce Castle School, and admitted as a solicitor 1880. He was a director of Williams Deacon's Bank, and of other companies, and was Justice of the Peace for West Sussex. In 1895 he married Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Spencer, and widow of James H.

William Basil Weston (3 January 1924 – 3 March 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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William Bingham (March 8, 1752 – February 7, 1804) was an American statesman from Philadelphia. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801.

William Best (ca 1707 – November 17, 1782) was a political figure in Nova Scotia. He was a member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1758 to 1759 and from 1761 to 1770.He came to Halifax in 1749 and later settled at Cornwallis. In 1779, with John Burbidge, he helped establish an Anglican church there. In 1783, he was named a justice of the peace for King's County. Best died in Halifax at the age of 75.One of his descendants, Charles Herbert Best, discovered insulin with Frederick Banting.

William Boyd Dunlap was a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.He worked as a riverboat captain. He was a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention. He represented the 46th senatorial district in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1891 to 1894.William B. Dunlap Mansion, his home in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Sir William Bassett (1628 – 25 September 1693) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1669 and 1693.Bassett was the son of William Bassett of Claverton and his second wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir Joseph Killigrew of Lothbury, London and Landrake, Cornwall. He was baptised on 17 April 1628. He succeeded to the estate of Claverton on the death of his father in 1656. He was knighted on 7 July 1660 and one of those recommended as Knight of the Royal Oak with an estate of £1,800 per annum. He was a commissioner for assessment for Somerset from August 1660 to 1680. In 1661 he was made freeman of Bath and was also a captain of militia horse for Somerset. He became J.P. for Somerset in 1662.In 1669, Bassett was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for recusants for Somerset in 1675. By 1679 he was a major in the militia, He was re-elected MP for Bath in first election of 1679, but lost his seat in the second election that year. He was Deputy Lieutenant from 1680 to 1687. In 1681 he was elected MP for Bath again. He became a member of the Honourable Artillery Company in 1681. He was J.P. for Cornwall from 1683 to 1685 and for Bath from 1684 to October 1688. In 1685 he was re-elected MP for Bath and again in 1689 From 1689 to 1690 he was commissioner for assessment for Somerste and became Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset in 1689. He was commissioner for assessment for Bath in 1690. In 1690 he was re-elected MP for Bath.Bassett died at the age of about 65 and was buried at Claverton.Bassett married firstly Philadelphia Cambell, daughter of James Cambell of Woodford, Essex, and coheir to her brother Sir John Cambell, 1st Baronet. She died without issue and he married secondly on 28 September 1685, Rachel Biddulph, daughter of Sir Theophilus Biddulph of Westcombe Park, Greenwich, Kent.

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William Blair-Bell FRCS (né Bell, 1871 – 25 January 1936) was a British medical doctor, founder of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He was subject of a biography by Sir John H. Peel.

The William Baumgardner Farm is a historic farmstead located near New Carlisle in Miami County, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1857, the site remains typical of period farmsteads, and it has been named a historic site.William Baumgardner was one of Miami County's wealthiest farmers, and his landholdings were among the county's widest.

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Sir William Henry Bodkin (5 August 1791 – 26 March 1874) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1847, before becoming a judge.

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The William Blake Archive is a digital humanities project first created in 1996. The project is sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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William Billings (October 7, 1746 – September 26, 1800) is regarded as the first American choral composer.

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The William Bailey Plantation was a large cotton plantation of 2510 acres (10 km2) located in central Leon County, Florida, United States established by William Bailey.

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Sir William Bathe (c.1530-1597) was an Irish judge and landowner. He is commemorated by the Wayside Cross (also known as the Dowdall Cross) in Duleek, which was erected by his widow Janet Dowdall. He should not be confused with his much younger cousin William Bathe of Drumcondra Castle, who was a Jesuit and noted musicologist.William was the elder son of John Bathe, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas; little seems to be known about his mother. The Bathes were a long established family which settled in County Meath, and had several branches in Meath and Dublin : William's branch of the family lived at Athcarne, near Duleek, which William inherited in about 1559: he built Athcarne Castle (which is now a ruin) in 1590. He also built a bridge nearby.He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1557, and was called to the Bar there in 1563. In 1562 he was one of a number of law students who wrote and presented to the English Crown a book describing what they called the "wretched condition" of English rule in the Pale; The Queen and her ministers naturally took offence at these strictures on their Irish government, and regarded those responsible for the book with suspicion; but unlike some of the other students involved, notably Henry Burnell, William was never seen as an active opponent of the Crown. When he subsequently became an office holder, he was required to swear the usual oath to recognise Queen Elizabeth I as head of the Church of Ireland. It is not known whether, like his cousins the Bathes of Drumcondra, at least two of whom became priests, he privately inclined to the Roman Catholic faith, although his father had been in high favour with Elizabeth's Catholic sister Queen Mary, while his wife was a cousin of the Catholic martyr James Dowdall.He returned to Ireland, and was appointed Recorder of Drogheda in 1567. He was a noted authority on the law of municipal corporations. He became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) in 1581. He acted as the judge of assize in Ulster in 1591-2, but shortly afterwards his health declined seriously: it was said that both his judgment and his memory failed, although he apparently remained on the Bench until his death in 1597. He was remembered as "a man of much distinction".He married Janet Dowdall, daughter of Patrick Dowdall of Termonfeckin, but had no issue, so Athcarne passed at his death to his brother. The Bathe family lived at Athcarne until about 1700. Janet in 1601 erected the impressive memorial to her husband which can still be seen in Duleek, as well as a number of other memorial crosses nearby. She remarried Oliver Plunkett c.1600.
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William Boyce Thompson, (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930), was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the significant early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and reaped for themselves tremendous fortunes.

William Lennox Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst (14 February 1791 – 24 February 1878), styled The Honourable William Bathurst from 1794 to 1866, was a British peer, Tory Member of Parliament and civil servant.Bathurst was the second son of Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and his wife Lady Georgina (née Lennox). He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1812. The same year, aged twenty-one, he was elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Weobley (succeeding his elder brother Lord Apsley), a seat he held until 1816. He then returned to Christ Church and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1817. In 1821 he was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn. Bathurst was a Deputy Teller of the Exchequer between 1816 and 1830 and a Commissioner for victualling the Royal Navy between 1825 and 1829 and served as Joint Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1830 to 1847 and as Joint Clerk of the Privy Council from 1830 to 1860. In 1866, aged seventy-five, he succeeded his elder brother in the earldom and entered the House of Lords.Lord Bathurst died in February 1878, aged eighty-seven. He never married and was succeeded in his titles by his nephew Allen.

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William Bladen (1585-1663) was a bookseller and printer in London and Dublin in the 17th century. He served as Sheriff, Alderman and Mayor (1647–48) of Dublin and was present in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion in 1641-42.

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The William Baumgardner Farm is a historic farmstead located near New Carlisle in Miami County, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1857, the site remains typical of period farmsteads, and it has been named a historic site.William Baumgardner was one of Miami County's wealthiest farmers, and his landholdings were among the county's widest. He was able to pay for the construction of the entire complex in 1857, including the house, a separate summer kitchen, one large barn for animal shelter and hay storage, a granary, a spring house, a barn for seed storage, and a carriage house. Comparatively few changes have been made to the complex, which accordingly remains among the region's best-preserved farmsteads from the middle of the nineteenth century.Baumgardner's house is a two-story brick building placed on a stone foundation. Chimneys sit on either end of the roofline, which is created by gables on either side. Both the side and the facade comprise three bays, with the middle bay of the facade occupied by a portico-sheltered door on the first story and a secondary door opening onto the portico roof on the second story. A single-story extension sits at the rear, causing the general floor plan to have the shape of the letter "T". Inside, the original features are still present. Buildings throughout the complex possess decorative features such as cupolas and miniature gables, giving the farmstead an appearance of architectural harmony. None of the buildings in the farmstead have been moved since their construction.In early 1978, the Baumgardner Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant architecture. The complex comprises six contributing properties, all of which are buildings. The complex is one of three National Register-listed locations near New Carlisle, along with Olive Branch High School and Ollie's Tavern in Clark County to the east.

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William Brown Ide (March 28, 1796 – December 19 or 20, 1852) was a California pioneer who headed the short-lived California Republic in 1846.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Blacker (1 September 1777 – 25 November 1855) was a British Army officer, Commissioner of the Treasury of Ireland, and author. His published work is sometimes attributed under the names Fitz Stewart or Colonel Blacker.

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William Salter Blackledge, son of the William Blackledge below, was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1821 and 1823.William Blackledge (died 19 October 1828) was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1803 and 1809 and between 1811 and 1813.Born in Craven County, North Carolina (his birthdate remains unknown), Blackledge was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from 1797 to 1799 before being elected to the 8th United States Congress in 1802. He served three consecutive terms, during which he was one of the House managers for the impeachment of John Pickering. He ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1808, but served briefly in the state house in 1809 and returned to serve one more term in the 12th United States Congress from 1811 to 1813. He ran for Congress unsuccessfully one final time before retiring from politics.Blackledge died in Spring Hill, North Carolina in 1828. He was also the father of William Salter Blackledge, who served one term in the 17th United States Congress in the 1820s. This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

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William Beroza is an American lacrosse goalie, coach and member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.Beroza played lacrosse at Hempstead High School and was an All-Division honoree. After graduating high school, he was the goalie for Roanoke College where he was honored as Honorable Mention All-American in 1976 and Second Team All-American in 1977. In his senior year, he helped lead the team to the NCAA Division II/III semi-finals where he set an NCAA record 30 saves in a playoff game.

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William Carpenter Bompas (20 January 1834 – 9 June 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese. Born in London, England, he died in Carcross, Yukon. His wife Charlotte Selina (Cox) Bompas participated in his missionary work, and wrote Owindia: A True Tale of the Mackenzie River Indians, North-West America.

William Batty (1801–1868) was an equestrian performer, circus proprietor, and longtime operator of Astley's Amphitheatre in London. Batty was one of the most successful circus proprietors in Victorian England and helped launch the careers of a number of leading Victorian circus personalities, such as Pablo Fanque, the versatile performer and later circus proprietor (best known today from his mention in The Beatles song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), and W.F. Wallett, one of the most celebrated clowns of the era. Also, while in operation for only two years, Batty's most lasting legacy is probably Batty's Grand National Hippodrome, also known as Batty's Hippodrome, an open-air amphitheate he erected in 1851 in Kensington Gardens, London, to attract audiences from the Crystal Palace Exhibition nearby.Batty was an equestrian performer as early as 1828, and by 1836 he was operating his own circus. In that year, Pablo Fanque was performing with him in Nottingham as a "rope dancer." In the ensuing years, Batty's circus travelled throughout the United Kingdom; in 1838, he was at Newcastle and Edinburgh and, in 1840, at Portsmouth and Southampton. When Astley's Amphitheatre suffered its third fire, Batty was in Dublin, and boarded the next steamer to London to arrange for its rebuilding in Westminster Street. Batty put W.F. Wallett in charge of the management of his circus in Dublin, while Batty made plans for a temporary circus in Oxford and until Astley's could be rebuilt. While Batty was at Oxford in 1841, Pablo Fanque left Batty to start his own circus. Wallett joined him. On occasion, business would reunite Batty and Fanque over the next twenty years.Batty managed Astley's Amphitheatre from 1842 to 1853. All the major circus acts of the day performed at Astley's, including Pablo Fanque who performed there for twelve nights in March 1847. Batty leased the building to William Cooke in 1853. Cooke would run Astley's until 1860.While managing Astley's in the autumn of 1850, Batty acquired land in Kensington Gardens, London, to begin construction of an open-air arena for theatrical and equestrian events. Batty chose the site, which covered a large area at the end of the Broad Walk (now occupied by DeVere Gardens), to attract visitors to the Crystal Palace Exhibition, five minutes away. Architect George Ledwell Taylor designed the structure, which the firm Haward and Nixon constructed of iron and wood. The arena consisted of an eight-row grandstand, to seat 14,000 people, surrounding an oval space 360 feet by 260 feet. Named Batty's Grand National Hippodrome, or Batty's Hippodrome, the arena opened in May 1851, with a French troupe from the Hippodrome in Paris. In addition to equestrian events, Batty staged camel and ostrich races, and balloon ascents. Batty's Hippodrome opened for a second season in 1852, during which a balloon launch went awry, causing serious injury to its occupants after the balloon averted a collision with the Crystal Palace Exhibition and crashed into a nearby mansion. Batty ceased performances at the Hippodrome after the 1852 season and the arena operated as a riding track for several years until its demolition. No trace of Batty's Hippodrome remains today.When Batty died in 1868, he was reportedly worth a half a million pounds sterling. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.In the 21st century, American ringmaster Noah Mickens of Oregon's Wanderlust Circus uses Batty's name as his own stage name. Prior to Wanderlust, Mickens' early circus was called Batty's Hippodrome, another homage to Batty.

William Blades (5 December 1824 – 27 April 1890), English printer and bibliographer, was born at Clapham, London.

William Werner Boone (Cincinnati, 16 January 1920 – Urbana, Illinois, 14 September 1983) was an American mathematician. Alonzo Church was his Ph.D. advisor at Princeton, and Kurt Gödel was his friend at the Institute for Advanced Study.Pyotr Novikov showed in 1955 that there exists a finitely presented group G such that the word problem for G is undecidable. A different proof was obtained by Boone in 1958.

Second Lieutenant William Eric Bottrill was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.Bottrill was born in Burton on Trent, England, but was living in Hamilton, Ontario, working as a stockhelper (shipping clerk) on the outbreak of the First World War. He served in the 91st Regiment Canadian Highlanders, part of Canada's Non-Permanent Active Militia, until he enlisted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 20 April 1915, and was posted to the 36th Battalion.

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William Borm (7 July 1895 – 2 September 1987) was a German politician, of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). He was a member of the Bundestag from 1965 to 1972, and a member of the FDP National Executive Committee from 1960 to 1982. Several years after his death, it was revealed that since the late 1950s he had been was an agent of the Stasi, the State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic.

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William Batecumbe or Badecumbe (fl. 1348) was an English mathematician and astrologer. His work is largely lost: some works of later authors have been attributed to him.

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Sir William Bassett (1628 – 25 September 1693) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1669 and 1693.Bassett was the son of William Bassett of Claverton and his second wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir Joseph Killigrew of Lothbury, London and Landrake, Cornwall. He was baptised on 17 April 1628. He succeeded to the estate of Claverton on the death of his father in 1656.

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Edward (William) Black (1853–1872) was a drummer boy for the Union during the American Civil War. At twelve years old, his left hand and arm were shattered by an exploding shell. He is considered to be the youngest wounded soldier of the war.

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William Bleloch (9 February 1906 Johannesburg – 20 June 1991) was a South African metallurgist noted for developing smelting techniques for the processing of chrome ores. At a 1975 ceremony when the University of the Witwatersrand conferred upon him an honorary doctorate of Science and Engineering, the citation read "William Bleloch can truly be called the father of our electrochemical and electrometallurgical industries".

William Baylebridge was the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge (12 December 1883 – 7 May 1942), an Australian poet and short-story writer.Blocksidge was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of George Henry Blocksidge, an auctioneer and estate agent. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and by a private tutor David Owen, M.A., a classical scholar who became a close friend.In 1908 Blocksidge travelled to London with his friend Robert Graham Brown.

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William Bismarck Bowling (September 24, 1870 – December 27, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Iron City, Calhoun County, Alabama to William and Sarah Elston Bowling, William Bismarck Bowling attended the common schools, and graduated from the State normal school, Jacksonville, Alabama, in 1892. He taught in the public schools of Montgomery, Alabama from 1893 to 1895 and of Columbus, Georgia from 1896 to 1899. He then moved to LaFayette, Alabama, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in LaFayette. In 1902, he moved to Dadeville, Alabama and practiced there for twelve years. He served as solicitor of the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama 1905-1920, and as member of the board of trustees of Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn.Bowling was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Thomas Heflin. He was reelected to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 14, 1920, until his resignation effective August 16, 1928, having been appointed judge for the fifth judicial circuit of Alabama, in which capacity he served until his death.He was married to the former Frances (Fannie) Steele Collins of Lafayette, Alabama. They had four children: George Randolph Bowling, Marion Elston Bowling Jenkins, Sarah Frances Bowling Frazer, and Elizabeth Jane Bowling; four grandchildren: Randolph Edward Bowling, Susan Bowling Dudney, William Bismarck Bowling II, and Jane Frazer McCurry. Bowling died in LaFayette, Alabama, on December 27, 1946. He was interred in LaFayette Cemetery.

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William Bathe (2 April 1564 –17 June 1614) was a Jesuit priest, musicologist and writer, who was born in Dublin, Ireland.He was born at Drumcondra Castle, County Dublin, to a leading Anglo-Irish family.

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William Francis Baxter, Jr. (July 13, 1929 – November 27, 1998) was a law professor at Stanford University. His specialty was antitrust law.

William Bathe (2 April 1564 –17 June 1614) was a Jesuit priest, musicologist and writer, who was born in Dublin, Ireland.He was born at Drumcondra Castle, County Dublin, to a leading Anglo-Irish family. He was the eldest surviving son of John Bathe, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, and his first wife Eleanor Preston, daughter of Jenico Preston, 3rd Viscount Gormanston and Lady Catherine Fitzgerald; his other grandfather was James Bathe, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, whose second wife, William's grandmother, was Eleanor Burnell His brother John Bathe was an Irish representative at the Royal Court in Madrid in the early 1600s. When William's father died in 1586 the family were among the biggest landowners in Dublin, although their wealth and influence notably declined in the next generation. William inherited the family estates on his father's death, but on entering the priesthood he transferred them to John, the next brother in age, in 1601.Bathe was trained as a musicologist and linguist at Oxford, where he wrote A Brief Introduction to the Art of Music, published in 1584. Following a long-standing family tradition, he also studied law at the Inns of Court in London. For a time he enjoyed the favour of Queen Elizabeth I, to whom he presented a harp of his own design. The Queen made him a number of grants of land, thus adding further to the extensive Bathe holdings: but royal favour ceased after 1598, on the discovery that William had entered the priesthood. The decision of a third Bathe brother, Luke, to become a priest as well did nothing to restore the family to favour (under the name Fr Edward Bathe, Luke became a prominent member of the Capuchin order). Apart from the religious issue, the close friendship between Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Sir William Warren, who married William's widowed stepmother Jenet Finglas, raised questions about the family's loyalty to the English Crown during O'Neill's rebellion, popularly known as the Nine Years War. William is not known to have visited Ireland after 1601.He taught languages in Europe, and wrote one of the world's first language teaching texts, Janua Linguarum (The Door of Tongues, 1611), a juxtaposition of words and pictorial representations of them. It proved so popular that it was translated into nine languages within twenty years. The Czech educator Comenius based his work Janua linguarum reserata on this text.For a period of time he was Director of the Irish College in Salamanca. He should not be confused with his cousin Sir William Bathe of Athcarne Castle (died 1597), judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland).

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William Bliss Baker (November 27, 1859 – November 20, 1886) was an American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied with Bierstadt and de Haas. He later maintained studios in Clifton Park, New York; and New York City, where he painted in oils and watercolors. He completed more than 130 paintings, including several in black and white.At age 26, Baker was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter when he died at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York. The New York Times said that his death "deprived America of one of its most promising artists."

William Barton was Archdeacon of Totnes from 1385 until 1407.

William Bassett (1507 – 10 March 1586) was an Anglo-Welsh gentleman and parliamentarian from Glamorgan, Wales.

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William Bailey Lamar (June 12, 1853 – September 26, 1928) was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Florida.

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William Bauer (disambiguation)

William Berry

William Bailey (29 June 1851 – 29 July 1896) was a British trade unionist.Born in Saint Helena, Bailey's father was a soldier, and the family returned to England in 1857, settling at Bargate (near West Row), Suffolk. Bailey worked on a farm from the age of nine, then when he was fourteen moved to work at Fence Colliery near Sheffield. He later transferred to Beighton Colliery, then Norwood Colliery, just over the border in Derbyshire.

William Baltzell Ebbert (February 28, 1846 – February 27, 1927) was an officer and adjutant in the Union Army (1st Regiment West Virginia Infantry Volunteers), a Colorado legislator, newspaper publisher, author, farmer, businessman, and poet. Ebbert published the Pueblo Review and Standard newspaper in 1890, authored the landmark meat inspection legislation in Colorado in 1889 and battled with Prohibitionists in the 1910s.

William Black (born 16 May 1878) was a Scottish footballer who played for Queen's Park, Celtic, Everton, Dumbarton, Kilmarnock, Hamilton and Airdrieonians.

William Boultbee Sleath (c. 1763 - 21 October 1843) was an English teacher and clergyman who was headmaster of Repton School from 1800 to 1830.Sleath was born in Broughton, Leicestershire around 1763, and attended Rugby School. On leaving school in December 1778, he was immediately appointed assistant master at the same school. Sleath was later educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, obtaining a B.D. in 1797. He continued as a master at Rugby until he was elected headmaster of Repton School in 1800. In 1802 he obtained a D.D. degree. During his 30-year period as head of Repton school, he both raised its standards and significantly increased the number of students.He was known as an excellent teacher, and as an erudite scholar, distinguished for his researches in Anglo-Saxon England. It was said of him that "Dr. Sleath's conversation was always entertaining and instructive and he did not at any period of his life possess the virtue of taciturnity". After his retirement in 1830 he was given the vicarage of Willington and the mastership of Etwall Hospital, an almshouse. He died on 21 October 1843 aged 80.

William Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst

William Blacker

William Birkmyre (1838 – 19 April 1900) was Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr Burghs from 1892 to 1895.

William Booth or Bothe (c. 1388–1464) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1447 before becoming Archbishop of York in 1452 until his death in 1464.

William Berry (disambiguation)

William Carpenter Bompas (20 January 1834 – 9 June 1906) was a Church of England clergyman and missionary in northwestern Canada, first Anglican bishop of the Athabasca diocese, then of the Mackenzie River diocese and then of the Selkirk (Yukon) diocese as these dioceses were successively carved out of the original Rupert's Land diocese. Born in London, England, he died in Carcross, Yukon.

William Baxter (disambiguation)

William Batecumbe

William Blunt (disambiguation)

William Bast (April 3, 1931 – May 4, 2015) was an American screenwriter and author. In addition to writing scripts for motion pictures and television, he was the author of two biographies of the screen actor James Dean. He often worked with his lover Paul Huson.

William Bingham

William Blackwood and Sons

William Birch

The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich invented mythology (mythopoeia), in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the cosmos is the heart of his work and his psychology. His myths often described the struggle between enlightenment and free love on the one hand, and restrictive education and morals on the other.

William Batchelor

William Bassett

William Bay National Park is a national park in Western Australia, 369 km southeast of Perth.Fifteen kilometres west of Denmark, William Bay National Park covers 1734 hectares and includes Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks. The granite boulders create a natural reef which protects Greens Pool from the Great Southern Ocean, and is a safe swimming beach for children (under supervision).

William Birch Haldeman (July 27, 1846 - October 27, 1924) was the state adjutant general for the Kentucky Army National Guard from 1912 to 1914. He was part owner of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times.

William Brandford-Griffith (Governor)

William Bates (1625–1699) was an English Presbyterian minister.

William James Boone (July 7, 1879 – May 15, 1963) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan for one season in 1906, tallying a mark of 0–7 .Boone played football under Amos Alonzo Stagg at the University of Chicago. He was the starting right halfback of the 1905 University of Chicago national championship team .

William Bettenham (fl. 1386 – 1400) was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Kent in 1386 and 1388.Bettenham is described as coming 'from the least affluent group'. He possibly had a background in law.As some point before June 1389, Bettenham married his wife, Alice. There is little information on him, but he is commonly associated with Stephen Bettenham (d.1415) of Cranbrook, Kent, who may have been his brother or a close relation. Stephen was a successful lawyer and landowner, and obtained a place on the commission of the peace. William, however, is not thought to have been heavily involved in local politics or to have owned much land. He owned 130 acres of land in Staplehurst; this seems to have come to him through his marriage.The last record of Bettenham alive is from February 1400.

William Binks

William B. Cramer

William Salter Blackledge, son of the William Blackledge below, was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1821 and 1823.William Blackledge (died 19 October 1828) was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1803 and 1809 and between 1811 and 1813.Born in Craven County, North Carolina (his birthdate remains unknown), Blackledge was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from 1797 to 1799 before being elected to the 8th United States Congress in 1802.

William Baillie-Hamilton

William Bowen

William Basil Weston

William Boyce Thompson, (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930), was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the significant early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized Western American mining, and reaped for themselves tremendous fortunes. He currently has a school named after him in Yonkers New York called the William Boyce Thompson school.

William Boyd-Carpenter

William Babcock

Lieutenant General Sir William Boog Leishman (, 6 November 1865 – 2 June 1926) was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer. He was Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1923 to 1926.

William Bliss Baker (November 27, 1859 – November 20, 1886) was an American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied with Bierstadt and de Haas. He later maintained studios in Clifton Park, New York; and New York City, where he painted in oils and watercolors.

William Black (footballer)

William B. Ziff, Jr.

William Bowyer (died 1570)

William Bayard

William Billington (3 April 1825 – 3 January 1884) was an English poet, living in Blackburn, Lancashire and sometimes writing in dialect. He became known as "The Blackburn Poet".

William B. La Selle was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Lieutenant-General Sir William Brereton (29 December 1789 – 27 July 1864) was a British Army officer of the nineteenth century who served as colonel-commandant of the 4th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery in the 1860s.

William Bashford

William Black (producer)

William Babcock (1785 – October 20, 1838) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York's twenty-sixth district.

William Bochter

William Bast

William Barton (1598?–1678), was an English hymnologist.

William Bletcher

William B. Hayes

William Bladen (1672–1718) was an English-born Attorney-General in Maryland and, briefly, Secretary of that Province. He was the father of Thomas Bladen, Governor of Maryland and was the brother of Colonel Martin Bladen, Commissioner of the Board of Trade and Plantations. His nephew was Admiral Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke

William Bingham (1743 - 1819) was Archdeacon of London from 1789 to 1813.Bingham was born in Melcombe Bingham and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was Vicar of Great Gaddesden until 1777; and Rector of Hemel Hempstead from 1778. In 1792 he was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to the King.Bingham married Agnata Dörrien in 1775: they had four children, one of whom was a distinguished officer in the Royal Navy.

William Barton Rogers (December 7, 1804 – May 30, 1882) was a geologist, physicist, and educator at the University of Virginia from 1835 to 1853. In 1861, Rogers founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The university opened in 1865 after the American Civil War. Because of his affiliation with Virginia, Mount Rogers, the highest peak in the state, is named after him.

William Eastgate Batchelor (17 July 1840 – 28 November 1915) was an Australian politician.He was born in London. In 1903 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for North Launceston. He was defeated in 1906. Batchelor died in Launceston in 1915.

William Besse (born 10 March 1968 in Bruson) is a Swiss former alpine skier. He took four wins and 13 podiums in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, all of them in the downhill discipline, including winning the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen in 1994. He retired from competition in 1999, in part because he struggled to adapt to the introduction of carving skis in the mid-1990s. After retiring from competition, he became a ski instructor in Verbier, and also worked as an analyst for Télévision Suisse Romande and Radio Télévision Suisse's coverage of alpine skiing, until he was let go after the 2014-15 season.He is related to alpine skier Justin Murisier through Murisier's father, who is Besse's cousin.

William M. Bodiford (born December 3, 1955) is an American professor and author. He teaches Buddhist Studies and the religion of Japan and East Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles.

William Birkmyre

William Billington

William Black (disambiguation)

William Billington (poet)

Major-General William Oswald Bowen (10 November 1898 – 14 January 1961) was a British Army officer who served in both world wars.Bowen was born in Llanelli, Glamorgan, and educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received a commission on the unattached list of the British Indian Army on 21 December 1917. He served with the Royal Gurkha Rifles in France during the First World War, and on 22 March 1918 commissioned into the regiment.

William Bettenham (fl. 1386 – 1400) was an English politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Kent in 1386 and 1388.Bettenham is described as coming 'from the least affluent group'. He possibly had a background in law.As some point before June 1389, Bettenham married his wife, Alice. There is little information on him, but he is commonly associated with Stephen Bettenham (d.1415) of Cranbrook, Kent, who may have been his brother or a close relation.

William Bolton (footballer)

William Bailey (trade unionist)

William Bickerton (January 15, 1815 – February 17, 1905) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement after the 1844 succession crisis. In 1862, Bickerton became the founding president of the church now known as The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite), which is one of many churches that claim to be a continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.

William Bochter was a longtime Pittsburgh Police leader, who was appointed acting Pittsburgh Police Chief from December 29, 1995 – April 2, 1996.

Bibliographer

William B. Wood (disambiguation)

William B. Gould IV is an American lawyer currently the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law, Emeritus at Stanford Law School. He served as the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board from 1994 to 1998. He was responsible for the publication of the diary of his great grandfather William B. Gould I, an escaped slave who served in the Union Navy during the United States Civil War.

William Bismarck Bowling (September 24, 1870 – December 27, 1946) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama.Born in Iron City, Calhoun County, Alabama to William and Sarah Elston Bowling, William Bismarck Bowling attended the common schools, and graduated from the State normal school, Jacksonville, Alabama, in 1892. He taught in the public schools of Montgomery, Alabama from 1893 to 1895 and of Columbus, Georgia from 1896 to 1899. He then moved to LaFayette, Alabama, where he studied law.

William Blundell (cricketer)

William Bates (Quaker)

The William Blake Archive is a digital humanities project first created in 1996. The project is sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Inspired by the Rossetti Archive, the archive provides digital reproductions of the various works of William Blake, a prominent Romantic-period poet, artist, and engraver, alongside annotation, commentary and scholarly materials related to Blake.When publishing his poetry, William Blake would create print block illustrations for his book, print his books in black and white and then hand paint the illustrations within the prints. Furthermore, many of his works underwent multiple editions of printing, each with unique variations in the prints used to illustrate the poems and the poems themselves. Because of this complex process and the quality of his art, his art and poetry has been highly sought by collectors and scholars. The archive, as a digital humanities project, provides high quality digital copies of the facsimiles, providing scholars and students an opportunity to see the complexity of his published works often not available by viewing the scholarly print editions.The archive has been peer reviewed by the Modern Language Association in 2005 and the Multimedia Educational Tools for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) process in 2010. MERLOT highly recommended the use of the tool for teaching, praising the access to primary sources it provides; however, they also noted the need for educators to create instructional materials on how to use the site and the ease by which someone could get lost. Scholars have also written a number of educational case studies on how to use the archive.

William Bay National Park is a national park in Western Australia, 369 km southeast of Perth.Fifteen kilometres west of Denmark, William Bay National Park covers 1734 hectares and includes Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks. The granite boulders create a natural reef which protects Greens Pool from the Great Southern Ocean, and is a safe swimming beach for children (under supervision). William Bay National Park is located in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia along the Rainbow Coast, and is in the Shire of Denmark.William Bay was named after the famed British Arctic explorer and navigator, Sir William Edward Parry, as were two other nearby features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point. The bay was named in the 1830s by John Septimus Roe.The rare and ancient Main's assassin spider, currently listed as threatened, was found to inhabit the park during a survey conducted in 2008.

William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (29 Sep 1557 – 12 July 1623) was Lord Lieutenant of Devon. His seat was at Tawstock Court, three miles south of Barnstaple in North Devon, which he rebuilt in the Elizabethan style in 1574, the date being sculpted on the surviving gate house.

William Bayard Hale (1869–1924) was an American journalist. He wrote the 1912 campaign biography of Woodrow Wilson.He is described in Barbara Tuchman's "The Zimmerman Telegram" as a German propaganda agent.According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (6th edition, 2012), "His report (1913) as confidential agent in Mexico implicated ambassador Henry Lane Wilson in the murder of Francisco Madero by Victoriano Huerta.

William Betham (1779-1853)

William Blake's Illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

novelist

William Blacknall

William Horatio Bates (December 23, 1860 – July 10, 1931) was an American physician who practiced ophthalmology and developed what became known as the Bates Method for better eyesight, an educational method intended to improve vision by undoing a supposed habitual strain to see. The efficacy of the method is questionable, and his theory that the eye does not focus by changing the power of the lens, but rather by elongating the eyeball, through use of the extraocular oblique muscles, was contradicted by mainstream ophthalmology and optometry of his day and still is today.

William Blackwell Branch

William Bladen (Alderman)

William Bodrugan (MP for Dunheved)

William Black (novelist)

William Bayard Hale (1869–1924) was an American journalist. He wrote the 1912 campaign biography of Woodrow Wilson.He is described in Barbara Tuchman's "The Zimmerman Telegram" as a German propaganda agent.According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (6th edition, 2012), "His report (1913) as confidential agent in Mexico implicated ambassador Henry Lane Wilson in the murder of Francisco Madero by Victoriano Huerta. The report influenced the president to recall Wilson and initiate a campaign to drive Huerta from Mexico. In 1915, Hale turned propaganda adviser for Germany until the United States entered World War I. His book, "American Rights and British Pretensions on the Seas" (1915), stirred American resentment of the British blockade. Denounced and ostracized in the United States, he lived in Europe after the war."

William Birch (cricketer, born 1849)

William Bodiford

William Bond (sailor)

William Barton Rogers

William Braucher Wood (born August 7, 1950) is the U.S. Envoy for International Sanctions Implementation at the Department of State. He is a former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Colombia.William B. Wood presented his credentials on April 16, 2007, to the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and was received as the U.S. Ambassador to that nation, replacing the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann. Ambassador Wood was the US Ambassador to Colombia from 2003 to 2007, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, with responsibility for all aspects of U.S. foreign policy at the United Nations and a number of other multilateral organizations from 1998 to 2002. Immediately before that assignment, Mr. Wood was Political Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where he was the chief U.S. negotiator in the Security Council.

William Bliss Baker

William Bingham (priest)

Sir William Bathe (c.1530-1597) was an Irish judge and landowner. He is commemorated by the Wayside Cross (also known as the Dowdall Cross) in Duleek, which was erected by his widow Janet Dowdall. He should not be confused with his much younger cousin William Bathe of Drumcondra Castle, who was a Jesuit and noted musicologist.William was the elder son of John Bathe, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas; little seems to be known about his mother.

William B. Bowling

William Blundell (30 December 1866 – 28 February 1946) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1903.

William Bird (Chichester MP)

William Bidmead

William Bidwill, Sr.

William Bill Walker

William M. Blair (May 25, 1836 – June 17, 1919) was a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Colchester County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1878 to 1886 as a Liberal-Conservative member.He was born in Onslow, Nova Scotia and educated there. In 1864, he married Harriet Blair. He was lieutenant-colonel in the militia, commanding a Highlanders battalion from Pictou, Hants and Colchester.

William Bodrugan (c.1398-1441)

Sir William Boog Leishman

William Bolling

William Bompas

William Bonfield CBE, FREng, FRS (born 6 March 1937) is a British material scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge.

William Bettenham

William Blount (disambiguation)

William Bayard (21 August 1814 – 17 December 1907) was a distinguished physician in New Brunswick. He was the son of Dr. Robert Bayard, also a noted physician and author.Bayard was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, and received his medical training in New York State and at the University of Edinburgh. He received his MD in 1837. He then practiced medicine with his father, Robert Bayard, in Saint John, New Brunswick and continued the practice after his father's death.

William M. Bodiford

William Carpenter Bompas

William Bartram Scenic and Historic Highway

William Blair Tennent

William Black House (disambiguation)

William Boultbee Sleath

William Black (13 November 1841 – 10 December 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his own lifetime Black's novels were immensely popular, and were compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity did not survive long into the twentieth century.

Major-General William Oswald Bowen (10 November 1898 – 14 January 1961) was a British Army officer who served in both world wars.Bowen was born in Llanelli, Glamorgan, and educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received a commission on the unattached list of the British Indian Army on 21 December 1917. He served with the Royal Gurkha Rifles in France during the First World War, and on 22 March 1918 commissioned into the regiment. He served with the Gurkha Rifles, including in the Waziristan campaign (1919–20), until his secondment to the Royal Corps of Signals in October 1926. On 29 September 1928 he transferred to the Royal Signals, and Bowen was employed with the Burma Military Police and the Civil Government of Burma until 1936. Between 1936 and 1939 Bowen was engaged in the Arab revolt in Palestine.In May 1939, Bowen became the Chief Signal Officer on the Burma Front in British Burma Army, and he was Mentioned in Dispatches in October 1942 for his services in the Burma Campaign. From 1942 to 1945 Bowen continued to work on the Burma front as the Chief Signal Officer to the Fourteenth Army, serving with the rank of brigadier. He was mentioned in dispatches for a second time in October 1944. Following the end of the Second World War, Bowen was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath and as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his wartime services in Burma. In September 1949 he was promoted to the rank of major-general and worked as Chief Signal Officer, Middle East Land Forces until 1951. From 1951 until his retirement in September 1954 he was Director of Signals at the War Office.

William Bourne

William Blair & Co.

William Bowes (MP)

William Blackledge

William Beverly

William Blaeu

William Biddick, Jr.

William Bertram

William Borgen

William Birnie Rhind RSA (1853–1933) was a Scottish sculptor. Rhind was born in Edinburgh as the eldest son of sculptor John Rhind (1828–1892), and the elder brother of J. Massey Rhind. The two brothers set up a studio in Glasgow in 1885, then Birnie moved to Edinburgh, and his brother went to Paris, then permanently to America in 1889, despite the warnings of their father.

William Blackett (1657-1705)

William Baumgardner Farm

William Bolton was an English footballer who played as a winger. He played one match in the Football League for Burnley. He made his debut for Burnley in the 2–1 win over Newcastle United on 14 April 1915.

William Russell Birch (April 9, 1755 – August 7, 1834) was an English miniature painter, enameller, and landscape engraver and designer.

William Brown Ide

Sir William Brereton

William Blair (born 11 March 1872 in Greenock) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Greenock Morton, Third Lanark and Scotland.

William Birnie Rhind RSA (1853–1933) was a Scottish sculptor. Rhind was born in Edinburgh as the eldest son of sculptor John Rhind (1828–1892), and the elder brother of J. Massey Rhind. The two brothers set up a studio in Glasgow in 1885, then Birnie moved to Edinburgh, and his brother went to Paris, then permanently to America in 1889, despite the warnings of their father. His younger brother was Thomas Duncan Rhind the architect.His name is particularly connected to several dozen fine sculptural war memorials in the Edinburgh and Lothian area. The best of these is the hauntingly calm monument to the Royal Scots Greys on Princes Street in Edinburgh. Also of poignant note is the 1919 bronze figure of a fallen officer, telling his men to "carry on", which acts as the school war memorial at Fettes College, a private school in Edinburgh.William is buried with his parents, and Alice Stone, his wife, in the family plot in Warriston Cemetery in North Edinburgh towards the south end of the original cemetery, facing a main path.

William Baylebridge was the pseudonym of Charles William Blocksidge (12 December 1883 – 7 May 1942), an Australian poet and short-story writer.Blocksidge was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of George Henry Blocksidge, an auctioneer and estate agent. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and by a private tutor David Owen, M.A., a classical scholar who became a close friend.In 1908 Blocksidge travelled to London with his friend Robert Graham Brown. He travelled the Continent and published ten books including two of prose, beginning with Songs of the South, which was followed a year later by Australia to England and other Verses. Both of these books were suppressed shortly after their publication. In 1910 no fewer than four volumes were privately printed, Moreton Miles, Southern Songs, A Northern Trail, and The New Life, of which copies were sent to the principal public libraries, but few, if any, were sold to the public. There was no publisher's name on any of the volumes, and nothing to suggest where they had been printed. One of these books, however, The New Life, was reviewed in The Bulletin on 14 March 1912, and the anonymous reviewer, most likely Arthur Henry Adams, pronounced it "an astonishing thing to have come from Australia--astonishing in its crudeness and occasional strength, equally astonishing in its gassy rhetoric and its foolishness". In another place he suggested that here was "a new prophet, a new poet--or a new lunatic". But evidently the effects of the volume's strength were greater than those of its weakness, for the book was referred to several times in later issues. Life's Testament, c. 1914, A Wreath, c. 1916, and Seven Tales, 1916, were also privately printed, and attracted no notice, but in 1919 a volume of Selected Poems was published by Gordon and Gotch in Brisbane which slowly made its way, helped by a literary group at Melbourne of whom Vance and Nettie Palmer and Frank Wilmot were the leaders. Baylebridge had returned to Queensland in 1919, but soon moved to Sydney. He had travelled extensively in Europe, Egypt and the East, and is stated to have done "special literary work" during World War I. His familiarity with the subjects of the stories in his An Anzac Muster, privately printed in 1921, suggests that he had personal experience at the front, but there appears to be no evidence to show that he belonged to any of the fighting forces.As Baylebridge, he was considered by some as one of the leading Australian poets in his day, but modern critics have a higher view of his short stories than his poetry, which has been called "unwieldy" (cf Roberts). Historians and literary historians today condemn Baylebridge's political agenda of populist nationalism (cf Jupp), as well as his interest in vitalism. During his time in London, he developed Nietzschean ideas about Australia's future, which prefigure interwar fascism (cf Davison). Baylebridge died on 7 May 1942; he was unmarried.

William Bigg

Major William Anderson Bloomfield VC (30 January 1873 – 12 May 1954) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa in 1878.

William Baxter (law professor)

William Bassett (disambiguation)

William Horatio Bates (December 23, 1860 – July 10, 1931) was an American physician who practiced ophthalmology and developed what became known as the Bates Method for better eyesight, an educational method intended to improve vision by undoing a supposed habitual strain to see.

Second Lieutenant William Eric Bottrill was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.Bottrill was born in Burton on Trent, England, but was living in Hamilton, Ontario, working as a stockhelper (shipping clerk) on the outbreak of the First World War. He served in the 91st Regiment Canadian Highlanders, part of Canada's Non-Permanent Active Militia, until he enlisted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 20 April 1915, and was posted to the 36th Battalion. When the battalion embarked aboard the SS Corsican at Montreal on 19 June 1915 to sail for Europe, he held the rank of sergeant.On 12 March 1918 Bottrill, now a member of the 1st Central Ontario Regiment, was seconded for duty with the Royal Air Force, with the rank of temporary lieutenant. He served as an observer/gunner in No. 104 Squadron RAF flying the Airco DH.9, where between August and October 1918, with pilots Lieutenant D. P. Pogson and Captain E. J. Garland, he shot down five enemy aircraft. On 12 January 1919 his secondment to the RAF ended, and on 10 October 1919 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Military leader, government official, author

William Boultbee Sleath (c. 1763 - 21 October 1843) was an English teacher and clergyman who was headmaster of Repton School from 1800 to 1830.Sleath was born in Broughton, Leicestershire around 1763, and attended Rugby School. On leaving school in December 1778, he was immediately appointed assistant master at the same school. Sleath was later educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, obtaining a B.D. in 1797.

William Eric Bottrill

William Batchelder

William Berridge

William Babcock (politician)

William Besse

William Bailey (29 June 1851 – 29 July 1896) was a British trade unionist.Born in Saint Helena, Bailey's father was a soldier, and the family returned to England in 1857, settling at Bargate (near West Row), Suffolk. Bailey worked on a farm from the age of nine, then when he was fourteen moved to work at Fence Colliery near Sheffield. He later transferred to Beighton Colliery, then Norwood Colliery, just over the border in Derbyshire. He was elected as the pit's checkweighman, and also became active in the South Yorkshire Miners' Association (SYMA).Bailey was a founder of the Derbyshire Miners' Association, a split from the SYMA, and represented it on the Trades Union Congress in 1883, 1887 and 1889. In 1884, he supported a strike at Norwood Colliery, and was fired, forcing him to take work as an insurance agent. This enabled him to become more politically active, being a founder of the Labour Electoral Association (LEA) in 1886, and leading a campaign for miners to be able to elect any other miners as their checkweighman, even if they were based at another colliery. This campaign was successful, with a law enabling it being passed in 1887. That year, Bailey was invited to become the full-time agent and general secretary of the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association. He took the post, and proved highly successful; in six years, he took membership from around 500 to nearly 19,000.Bailey remained involved with the LEA, and became a vice-president in 1890, and then president in 1892. In 1889, he was elected to Nottingham Town Council as a Liberal-Labour member, serving until his death. He was a founder of the Miners Federation of Great Britain in 1890 and served on its executive committee. In 1893, he stood down as general secretary, instead taking up the post of financial secretary, which he held until his death in 1896.In his spare time, Bailey was a Primitive Methodist preacher.

William Bowie

William Barton (priest)

William Bass (Baronet of Stafford)

William Baltzell Ebbert (February 28, 1846 – February 27, 1927) was an officer and adjutant in the Union Army (1st Regiment West Virginia Infantry Volunteers), a Colorado legislator, newspaper publisher, author, farmer, businessman, and poet. Ebbert published the Pueblo Review and Standard newspaper in 1890, authored the landmark meat inspection legislation in Colorado in 1889 and battled with Prohibitionists in the 1910s. As a Director of the Montezuma Valley Irrigation District from 1911 to 1920, he guided the district through turbulent times and helped engineer its dissolution and reemergence as the Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company in 1920.A newspaper article in 1911 touted him as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and perhaps best describes the respect he commanded: "His record for good works for Colorado is not excelled by any living man and he would command the respect and wield an influence in the highest legislative body in the land that would be beneficial to not only his state but to the nation at large." Ebbert was the patriarch of a farming family in the Cortez, Rocky Ford and Pueblo areas of Colorado. Ebbert's father, John Van Kirk Ebbert, was the cousin of Congressman George Ebbert Seney (Ohio Democrat, served 1883-1891).In addition to writing for various newspapers and magazines, William B. Ebbert also authored a compilation of his writings and poetry, "On Colorado's Fair Mesas" in 1897.Ebbert represented the counties of Pueblo, Otero, and Montezuma in the Colorado General Assembly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ebbert was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was the only son of Charlotte Baltzell and John Van Kirk Ebbert, of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After several years in the Union Army, he moved briefly to Covington, Kentucky and the Cincinnati, Ohio area. On Christmas Day, 1866, at age 20, he married Cornelia Blanche Hall in Wheeling. After Cornelia's death in 1881, William B. Ebbert and his three children (Blanche, Edith, and William) moved to the Pueblo, Colorado area and took up farming. He soon met and married Catherine Scheutle in 1884 in Pueblo. William and Catherine produced three more boys in Colorado; all died at prematurely. In Colorado, Ebbert established himself as a community leader, author, and politician. He served several years in the Colorado Legislature, representing Dolores, Otero, Pueblo, and Montezuma counties. Legendary railroad chieftain Otto Mears bestowed upon Ebbert one of his rare silver railroad passes in 1889 (Silverton Railroad Pass No. 193). After a respected life in the military, agriculture, and politics, William B. Ebbert died on February 27, 1927 in Cortez, Colorado. It was just one day before his 81st birthday. He is buried at the Lewis Cemetery, a few miles north of Cortez, Colorado.

William Boyce Thompson

William Bart Saxbe

William Bowen (British Army officer)

William Barton (hymnologist)

William Bleloch

William B. Gould IV

William B. Ziff, Sr.

William Bodkin (judge)

William Braucher Wood (born August 7, 1950) is the U.S. Envoy for International Sanctions Implementation at the Department of State. He is a former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Colombia.William B. Wood presented his credentials on April 16, 2007, to the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and was received as the U.S. Ambassador to that nation, replacing the former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald E. Neumann.

William Berry (Roundhead)

William Bawden

William Bispham Propsting

William Blair (Scottish footballer)

William Bate Hardy

William M. Blair (May 25, 1836 – June 17, 1919) was a farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Colchester County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1878 to 1886 as a Liberal-Conservative member.He was born in Onslow, Nova Scotia and educated there. In 1864, he married Harriet Blair. He was lieutenant-colonel in the militia, commanding a Highlanders battalion from Pictou, Hants and Colchester. Blair was an arent promoter of modern farming, and was deeply involved in agricultural reform efforts in Nova Scotia. He was president of the Onslow Agricultural Society and chairman of the Agricultural Exhibition Committee, was a prominent member of the Nova Scotia Farmers' Association from its inception in 1895 until his death, and participated in lobbying the provincial government for the creation of a provincial School of Agriculture in 1885 (which became the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1905). Most substantively, Blair was the first supervisor of the federally funded Experimental Farm in Nappan, Nova Scotia, heading it from its creation in 1887 until his retirement in 1896. He died in 1919.His son was William Saxby Blair who followed in his father's footsteps in agricultural promotion, being the first supervisor of the Experimental Farm in Kentville, Nova Scotia from its creation in 1912 until his retirement in 1938.

William Boog Leishman

drummer, soldier

William Barton (general)

William Bassett (died 1693)

William Blain Findlater

William Bowie Stewart Campbell Sawers

William Biddle (psychologist)

William Bogart

William Boone

William Bissell

William Bouverie

William Blair (Nova Scotia politician)

William B. Dunlap

William Betham (1749-1839)

William Bassett (died 1586)

William B. Harrison, Jr.

William Bathe

William Bernard Ziff, Jr.

William Best (Nova Scotia politician)

William Boone (mathematician)