Matthew Browne, Henry Holbeach, T. Talker.

William Baylies (physician)

Actor

William Benyaurd

William Baxter (Oxford Botanic Garden curator)

William Beattie-Brown

William Bechtel (born 1951) is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 until 2002 . Bechtel was also the chair of the Philosophy Department from 1999 until 2002 and was heavily involved with the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience program, serving at different times as Assistant Director and Director. Before that, he was at Georgia State. Bechtel earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and his BA from Kenyon College. Bechtel's work in philosophy has focused on the philosophy of the life sciences. In particular, he has worked on cell biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Bechtel advocates a mechanistic approach to philosophy of science, taking the view that phenomena are often explained by specifying mechanisms. He argues that although this is more naturally in accordance with the actual methodology of life scientists, it contrasts with the traditional model of deduction from laws supported by mainstream philosophy of science. Bechtel has also written about the nature of scientific discovery. He is the editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology.

William Bateman, 1st Baron Bateman

William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism." After being educated at normal school in Valparaiso, Indiana, Riley received his teacher's certificate. After teaching in county schools, he attended college in Hanover, Indiana, where he received an A.B. degree in 1885. In 1888 he graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1908, the Southwestern Baptist University of Jackson, Tennessee, conferred upon Riley an honorary D.D. degree. He served several Baptist churches in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois before taking the pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1897.

William Brockenbrough (July 10, 1778 – December 10, 1838) was a Virginia lawyer, political figure and judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

The William Bell No. 24 was a pilot boat used by the Sandy Hook Pilots in the 19th century.

William Baker (1789 – May 1866) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1854 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838. His brother Stevens also represented Missisquoi in the assembly. His son George Barnard served in the Quebec assembly and the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. His grandson George Harold Baker was a member of the Canadian House of Commons.

William Briggs (1642 – 4 September 1704) was an English physician and oculist.

William Belfield

William Brocklehurst (disambiguation)

William Beattie-Brown (1831–1909) was a Scottish landscape painter.

William Batten (rugby league)

William Bartram Scenic & Historic Highway

William Baxter Collier Fyfe

William Beckford of Somerley

dissolved

William Bayly

William Brittain (British Free Corps)

William D. Brisson (born August 18, 1946) is a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the state's 22nd House district since 2006. On October 25, 2017 Brisson announced his intention to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. During the 2016 legislative session, Brisson was one of 11 Democrats to vote in favor of HB2, the controversial "Bathroom Bill."

William Berry (1605 – June 28, 1654) was the first settler at Sandy Beach, Rye, New Hampshire.

William Benedict Fytch

William Bell (born in or before 1538, died 1598) was an English lawyer. He was born into a gentry family from Worcestershire, the son of John Bell. He was educated at Warwick and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected to a fellowship, which, however, being a Roman Catholic, he was unable to hold. Bell then started working for John Throckmorton. Subsequently, he turned his attention to the law, studying at Clement's Inn for two years. He then appears to have returned to his native county, where he came to hold the office of clerk of the peace. He is said to have died at Temple Broughton (perhaps the same as the place now known as Broughton) in that county. His son Arthur Bell, a Franciscan of the order of friars minor and warden of the college of St. Bonaventura at Douay, published in 1632 an octavo volume containing his fathers will of 1587, a statement of his theological opinions, and his pedigree.

William Bayles (8 January 1896 – 17 December 1960) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1913/14.

William Bedford (disambiguation)

William Bendings

William Bassett (actor)

William Beloe (1756 – April 11, 1817) was an English divine and miscellaneous writer.

Sir William de Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont (April 1438 – 19 December 1507) was a soldier and landowner who was a leading supporter of the Lancastrian faction during the Wars of the Roses. He was the son of John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Phelip. He was born at Edenham, Lincolnshire. Although his exact date of birth is not recorded, parish records show the date of his baptism as 23 April 1438.

William Berkeley (disambiguation)

William Beardmore and Company, Ltd.

William Brill (disambiguation)

William Beavis Randell

William Beal Pritchett

William Bergesch

William Henry Bassett

William Bayne (1858-1922)

Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Hugh Adamson Becke CMG DSO (24 September 1916 – 3 April 2009) was a British army officer, best remembered for his role during the Indonesian Confrontation.

William Bernard Cooke (1778 – 2 August 1855), was an English line engraver.

William Briçonnet

William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot DL (27 March 1811 – 19 January 1887), styled The Honourable from birth until 1856, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.

William Beamont (1797–1889) was an English solicitor and local philanthropist. He lived in the town of Warrington, in the north-west of England.

William Bassett (Royalist)

William Bernard McCabe (1801–91) was an Irish author of historical romances. Born in Dublin, he worked as a journalist for local newspapers before moving to London in 1833. He was employed by The Morning Chronicle and The Morning Herald to provide coverage of parliamentary debates and to review new books. He published A Catholic History of England in 1847-54. McCabe's's historical novels include Florine, Princess of Burgundy (1855) and Adelaide, Queen of Italy (1856). After retiring, he settled in Brittany.

William Beckley (January 15, 1930 – March 11, 2015) was an American actor, best known for his role as Gerard the butler in the television series Dynasty from 1981 to 1989, and the reunion miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion (1991). Other TV credits include: Combat!, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Hogan's Heroes, Night Gallery, Marcus Welby, M.D., Planet of the Apes, Charlie's Angels, Kojak, Fantasy Island, Hawaii Five-O, General Hospital, and The Rockford Files.

William Bennett Kilpack (February 6, 1883, Long Melford – August 17, 1962, Santa Monica) known simply as Bennett Kilpack, was an actor, director and playwright. He is best known for his performances in the title role of Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons (From 1937-1947 on NBC Radio's Blue Network, which became the ABC network in 1945, then from 1947-1955 on CBS Radio). The drama was one of radio's longest running shows (October 12, 1937 to April 19, 1955), continuing well into the television era.

The William Bate Hardy Prize is awarded by the Cambridge Philosophical Society. It is awarded once in three years “for the best original memoir, investigation or discovery by a member of the University of Cambridge in connection with Biological Science that may have been published during the three years immediately preceding”.

William Washington Beaudine

William Bertrand Busnach

William Barton House

William Bentney, alias Bennet, (1609 – 30 October 1692) was an English Jesuit priest during the 17th century when English Roman Catholics were under severe penalties. Bentney was born in Cheshire. He entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1630 and was sent to the English missions in 1640. He laboured there with great zeal and success for forty-two years. A victim of the Oates Plot, he was betrayed and arrested at the instigation of a nobleman to whose sisters he was administering the sacraments, and was taken to the Leicester jail. No one in those parts being willing to bear witness against him, being so universally esteemed, Bentney was at once transferred to Derby, where he was tried and sentenced to death at the Spring Assizes of 1682. His execution was delayed for unknown reasons

The William Bates House is located on South Carolina Highway 14 in Greenville County near Greenville, South Carolina. The two-story vernacular structure was built ca1835 for William Bates, a pioneer in the textile industry, who founded Batesville Cotton Mill. It is believed that the house is the only remaining structure associated with William Bates.

William Brocklehurst Brocklehurst

William Bernard Cooke

William Hugh Adamson Becke

William Britton (disambiguation)

William Bebbington (19 October 1856 – 31 July 1939) was a cheese maker and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

William Beattie (photographer)

William Benning Webb (1825 – March 15, 1896) was an American politician and attorney who was the Police Superintendent of Washington, D.C., and president of the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia, U.S., from 1886 to 1889. Webb died at his home in Washington on March 13, 1896, at the age of 70.

William Bass (1717 – 2 March 1787) was a British entrepreneur who founded Bass Brewery.

William Baxter (Queensland politician)

William Brock

William Barton (cricketer)

William Barwell

William Bates House

Cricket player

William Belser Spong, Jr.

William Berra is an American painter of landscapes, figures, and still life. He is represented by galleries throughout the United States and his work is in many public and private collections. Berra has appeared in over 40 solo and group shows. William Berra lives in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains north of Santa Fe with his wife, Alanna Burke, who is his business partner and a frequent model in his paintings.

William Humphrey Beik (1941–2017) was an American professor of French history, specialising in early modern France. Beik's father, Paul Beik, was a professor of history at Swarthmore College who carried out research on the French Revolution, so that William was partially educated in France. William took degrees from Haverford College (B.A. 1963) and Harvard University (M.A. 1966; Ph.D. 1969). From 1968 to 1990 he taught at Northern Illinois University, and in 1990 became Professor of French History at Emory University, retiring in 2007. His Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France (1985) received the American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. He died in Pittsburgh on 31 August 2017.

William Baxter ALS, FHS (Rugby, Warwickshire, January 15, 1787 - November 1, 1871), was a British botanist, author of British Phaenogamous Botany and appointed curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden in 1813. British Phaenogamous Botany or Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants, was published in 6 volumes by William Baxter between 1834 and 1843, with 509 hand-coloured copper-plate engravings by Isaac Russell (an Oxford glass painter) and C. Matthews. These men were not trained botanical artists, but gradually acquired a good working knowledge of the subject. The engravings were later hand-coloured by Baxter's daughters and daughter-in-law. The volumes were sold by Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London and John W. Parker. William Hart Baxter (c.1816-1890), William Baxter's son, succeeded his father as curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden.This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Baxter when citing a botanical name.

William Barwell (1709–1769) was an administrator of the English East India Company.

William Bence Jones (1812–22 June 1882) was an Anglo-Irish agriculturist.

William Baxter (born 1787 - died between 1830 and 1836) was an English gardener who collected in Australia on behalf of English nurserymen and private individuals. He had developed his horticultural reputation as gardener to the Comtesse de Vandes in Bayswater, London, many of the plants he had nurtured being used for illustrations in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. He was the first privately financed plant collector to be sent to Australia, his mission being to collect seeds and roots for the London seedsman F. Henchman. Baxter's collections were made at Kangaroo Island (1822–1823), the southern coast of Western Australia (1823–1825), at King George Sound, Cape Arid and Lucky Bay, Twofold Bay, and Wilsons Promontory, Victoria (1826). The final expedition to Western Australia (1828–1829) was arranged by Charles Fraser. On his return they disagreed about the distribution of the collected material. Baxter's name is commemorated in epithets, such as species Hakea baxteri R.Br., and Eucalyptus baxteri, and the genus Baxteria was named in his honour. He is thought to have died about 1836. The main part of his collections are held at Kew and the British Museum. Material supplied by Baxter's expedition was propagated at the Clapton Nursery.

William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St. Albans (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1849) was an English aristocrat and cricket player. William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk was born on 24 March 1801. He was the son of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans, and his second wife, the former Maria Janetta Nelthorpe. He played a first-class cricket match for Hampshire in 1817. He married, firstly, Harriet Mellon (11 November 1777 – 6 August 1837), on 16 June 1827 in London. He married, secondly, Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins (c. 1818 – 2 December 1893 St Leonards-on-Sea), on 29 May 1839 in Harby, Leicestershire. They had three children:
* William Ameleus Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans (1840–1898)
* Diana de Vere Beauclerk (10 December 1842 – 1 April 1905), married John Walter Huddleston. Appeared in W. P. Frith's famous painting of the marriage of the Prince of Wales in 1863 and also in his later work A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881.
* Charlotte Beauclerk (1849–?) He died on 27 May 1849.

William Baxter Collier Fyfe (1836-1882) was a Scottish genre and portrait painter. He was born at Dundee in 1836. He became at an early age a student of the Royal Scottish Academy, and exhibited his first picture of importance, Queen Mary resigning her Crown at Loch Leven Castle, in the Exhibition of 1861; but this was surpassed in later years by The Raid of Ruthven. In 1863 he settled in London, and from that time onward was busily engaged with portraiture, which he varied with landscapes and genre subjects of interest and merit. Some of his most important portraits are those of the Earl and Countess of Dufferin, Admiral Grenfell, Alderman Sir William McArthur, Dr. Lorimer, and John Faed, R.S.A.. He died suddenly at his residence in St John's Wood, London in 1882.5

William Bell (May 28, 1780 – August 16, 1857) was a Presbyterian minister, born in Scotland and an immigrant to Upper Canada. Bell and his family settled in Perth, Upper Canada, in 1817. He was a significant figure in promoting and expandingthe Presbyterian faith among the settlers in his region. He assisted in starting congregations in Beckwith Township, Lanark, Smiths Falls and Richmond. His carefully constructed diaries and other writings provide an important insight into the interactions between the and the .

William Bernhardt Tegetmeier FZS (4 November 1816 – 19 November 1912) was an English naturalist, a founding member of the Savage Club, a popular writer and journalist of domestic science. As a correspondent and friend of Charles Darwin, Tegetmeier's studied pigeon breeds and the optimality of hexagonal honeycomb cells constructed by honeybees. He wrote a number of books dealing with home economics, poultry farming, pigeon breeds, bee-keeping and on the maintenance of livestock.

William Broadbent Luddington

William Bedford

William Barton (musician)

William Bright (disambiguation)

William Brock (pastor)

William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He was a prolific author of more than eighty books and several hundred journal articles, Baumol was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2003,and Thomson Reuters cited him as a potential recipient in 2014, but he died without receiving the prize.

William Beaumont Hospital Heliport

William Bayly, Bayley or Bayliffe JP (c. 1540 – 1612) was an English barrister and administrator who briefly served as a Member for the borough of Chippenham in the English Parliament of 1572.

William Benjamin Gould I

William N. Belter (July 7, 1926 – December 12, 1999) was an American lawyer, businessman, and politician. He represented Green Lake and Waushara counties in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1953 to 1957.

Rev. Dr. William Brock (1807–1875), was the first minister of in Central London (1848–72); abolitionist, biographer, and supporter of missionary causes.

William John Bartlett (13 April 1878 – 6 August 1939) was an English professional footballer, who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield Town and Linfield. Bartlett stayed in Belfast after his football career ended, where he worked as a member of the Belfast Corporation Surveyor's Department. After a short illness, he died at Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, age 61. He was survived by his wife, Margaret Bartlett. His funeral was held at Belfast City Cemetery, where a large attendance came to pay their respects, including representatives of Linfield F.C., the Irish Football Association, Irish Football League, and the Belfast Corporation.

William Berra

William Brock III

William Berkeley, 1st Earl FitzHardinge

William Belton Murrah (1852-1925) was an American Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1910.

William Beers House

William Bassett (c 1602 - 1656) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Bassett was born at Colchester the son of Martin Bassett. He was at school in Colchester and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge on 15 January 1627 aged 15. His father bought Claverton, an estate of 1,300 acres outside Bath, in 1609 and moved there. In November 1640, Bassett was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in the Long Parliament. He was nominated to the county committee but he was disabled as a Royalist in 1644. He compounded for £1,935 in 1651. Bassett married as his second wife Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of Sir Joseph Killigrew of Lothbury, London and Landrake, Cornwall. His son William was also MP for Bath.

William Beller

William Bell (lawyer)

William Baylies (1724–1787) was an 18th-century English physician. It is said that the King of Prussia, at an early interview with Baylies, remarked to him that "to have acquired such skill he must have killed a great many people", to which the doctor replied, "Pas tant que votre Majesté (not yet including your Majesty)". Baylies died in Berlin on 2 March 1789 and left his library to the King of Prussia. A portrait of him by Johann Heinrich Schmidt, engraved by Daniel Berger, was published in Berlin.

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn DL (16 October 1856 – 9 April 1936), known as Sir William Beardmore, Bt, between 1914 and 1921, was an Anglo-Scottish industrialist, founding the eponymous William Beardmore and Company.

William Bagwell (merchant)

William Beloe

William Barton Worthington

William Baumol

The William Barton House, at 295 N. 300 East in Beaver, Utah, is a historic house built in 1876. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was built as a log house in 1876 and expanded in about 1900. The log portion with its notching is visible on the west side of the house. The house is upon a rubble rock foundation.

William Bennett Bond

William Belter

William Beadle

William Beauchamp Wildman was an English teacher at Sherborne School and a writer. Wildman was born on 11 January 1852 at Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, and after attending Glenalmond School he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford and Christ Church, Oxford. He was an assistant master at Westminster School from circa 1875 to 1877, before becoming assistant master in 1877 at Sherborne School (where he also ran a number of boarding houses), a post he kept until his retirement in 1919 (he was one of John Cowper Powys's teachers). He wrote a number of books including a history of Sherborne School and a biography of Aldhelm. He died in Bournemouth on 15 August 1922.

William Brisson

William Bennet (musician)

William Beedle, Jr.

William Bell (Canadian businessman, born 1806)

William Berry (pioneer)

William Bell

William Beaumont Hospital, Troy

William Bate Hardy Prize

William Bemister (28 June 1948 – 13 November 2008) was a British documentary film maker and journalist.

William Bendings (died c.1197) was an English judge and county sheriff. According to Gerald of Wales, Bendings was sent to Ireland by Henry II in 1176 as one of four envoys, of whom two were to remain with the viceroy, Richard FitzGilbert, Earl of Striguil, and two were to return, bringing with them Reimund Fitzgerald, whose exploits had aroused the king's jealousy. Reimund did not at once comply with the royal mandate, being compelled by the threatening attitude of Donnell to march to the relief of Limerick, a town which he had only recently taken. Richard also died that year, and the four envoys appear to have returned to England without Reimund.

William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot

William Berkeley, 1st Marquess of Berkeley

William Bayles (cricketer)

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn

William Baxter (born 1787 - died between 1830 and 1836) was an English gardener who collected in Australia on behalf of English nurserymen and private individuals. He had developed his horticultural reputation as gardener to the Comtesse de Vandes in Bayswater, London, many of the plants he had nurtured being used for illustrations in Curtis's Botanical Magazine. He was the first privately financed plant collector to be sent to Australia, his mission being to collect seeds and roots for the London seedsman F. Henchman.

William Bede Dalley

William Barton (cricketer, born 1858)

William Brito (or William the Breton) was a medieval clergyman in England during the 12th century. Brito was a royal chaplain and was appointed Archdeacon of Ely by 1110. He was a nephew of Hervey le Breton, the Bishop of Ely. He is last mentioned as archdeacon in 1144 or 1145, but was probably suspended from office on 22 December 1150 and was removed from his archdeaconry by 1152. He was the father of a son named Henry, who became a member of the clergy. Brito was given a manor at Pampisford, Cambridgeshire by his uncle, a gift that was confirmed by King Henry I of England in 1127. Also confirmed was the grant of Little Thetford to Brito. Pampisford was part of the bishopric's estates, and Brito held the manor in return for the service of one knight. But in 1135, the new bishop, Nigel recovered a number of the bishopric's properties that had been alienated, including Pampisford. Another manor may have been involved, as Henry, Brito's son, had a long running dispute with the cathedral chapter of Ely Cathedral from 1149 to 1153 over a manor which both sides claimed. The historian, Edward Miller, of the see of Ely called Brito "warlike".

Director

William Basset (died ca. 1249) was an English judge.

William Beldam

Photographer

William Bedford (1781 – 2 December 1852) was an English clergyman who became a chaplain in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).

William Bechtel

William Beckford (disambiguation)

Film director,actor

William Benson Mayo (7 January 1866 – 1 February 1944) was chief power engineer for the Ford Motor Company.

William Benjamin Wells

William Barton

William Beaver

William Briggs (physician)

William Bernhardt Tegetmeier

William Bell (footballer)

Bennett Kilpack

William Belton Murrah

William Bennett (painter)

William Beechey

William Bell (1 May 1806 – 4 August 1844) was a businessman and militia officer from Perth, Upper Canada. William Bell had a twin brother, John and was the son of William Bell, a Presbyterian missionary, who had arrived in Perth from Scotland in 1817.

Sir William Beechey

William Broadbent (28 August 1755 – 1 December 1827, Latchford), was an English Unitarian minister.

William Barton Wright (13 November 1828 – 7 May 1915) was an English mechanical engineer and Locomotive Superintendent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) from 1875. During his ten-year career in that post he helped to make the LYR one of the most efficient railways in the United Kingdom, by designing a range of good locomotives to haul the LYR's traffic.

William Bartlett (footballer)

William Brighty Rands

William Beeks

William Bagshaw

William Beers House, also known as the Beers House, is a historic home located in Richmond, Virginia. It was built in 1839, and is a three-story, three bay, Greek Revival style brick dwelling crowned by an Italianate bracketed cornice and shallow hipped roof. It features an entrance with sidelights and pilasters framed by a porch containing coupled Greek Doric order columns. The house was enlarged to a full three stories in 1860. In 1965 the house was acquired by the Medical College of Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

William Bennett was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. Born in Leyland, Lancashire, he was spotted by Football League First Division side Sheffield United while playing non-league football with Leyland Motors. He moved to Sheffield in February 1921, but was released in January 1922 after failing to make a first-team appearance. Bennett subsequently rejoined Leyland Motors, but his stay was short-lived as he joined Chorley in March 1922. At the end of the season, he was signed by Football League Third Division North outfit Nelson. He initially played in the reserve team, but was called up to the first-team for the match against Rochdale on 25 November 1922 due to an injury to regular inside forward Arthur Wolstenholme. Bennett did not make an impact on the match as Nelson fell to a 1–2 defeat, and he returned to the reserves for the remainder of the campaign. In March 1923, he again re-signed for Leyland Motors where he stayed until September 1924, when he joined Lytham. He left the club in 1925 and retired from football.

William Beinart (born January 19, 1951 in Cape Town) is a historian and Africanist. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He taught at the University of Bristol from 1983 to 1997, and is now a professor of race relations and director of graduate studies at the African Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford His focuses are South Africa and the developments of racism.

William Benjamin Smith

William Berkley

William Bentinck, Earl of Portland

Sir William Beechey (12 December 1753 – 28 January 1839) was a leading English portraitist of the golden age of British painting.

William Bayne (disambiguation)

William Baume

William Beckett Denison

William Benton Boggs (October 8, 1854 – February 18, 1922) was an exchange broker and Democratic politician from his adopted community of Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was elected in the spring of 1890 as the founding mayor of Plain Dealing. From 1892 to 1900, he represented Bossier Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. From 1908 to 1916, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate for Bossier and neighboring Webster parishes.

William Basely

William Benter

The William Bates House is located on South Carolina Highway 14 in Greenville County near Greenville, South Carolina. The two-story vernacular structure was built ca1835 for William Bates, a pioneer in the textile industry, who founded Batesville Cotton Mill. It is believed that the house is the only remaining structure associated with William Bates. The house, built on fieldstone and granite piers, has one-story shed-roofed porches supported by nine wooden columns along the entire front and rear facade. An exterior chimney is constructed of brick while the interior chimney is made of brick and stone. The house has clapboard siding and a tin gabled roof. The dining room and parlor both have their original, hand-carved mantels.When first built, the house was located on a 300-acre property. The house and 150 acres (61 ha) of property were purchased from Bates in 1868. The house and its renovated barn now sit on a property measuring 10.88 acres (4.40 ha).

William Bell Dinsmoor, Jr.

Mathematician, writer

William Battle

William Bennett (Australian politician)

Musician, didgeridoo player

William Benham (1831–1910) was an English churchman, academic and author.

William Beck (skier)

William Bedford Sr. House is a historic home located at Evansville, Indiana. It was built in 1873, and is a two-story brick dwelling with English influences. It features projecting polygonal bays and a one-story, full width front porch on four piers. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

William Benning Webb

William Bay (disambiguation)

William Bartram

William Bernard McCabe

William Beaumont Hospital Heliport is a heliport located in Royal Oak, Michigan, United States. It is operated by William Beaumont Hospital of the Beaumont Health System. Currently there is only one helipad, made of concrete. The helipad is 66 feet square [20m x 20m] so only one helicopter can land or take off at one time. A second helipad is being added. In 2012 Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak became the co-base of operation of Beaumont One an American Eurocopter EC135 helicopter. The helicopter is operated by PHI Air Medical. Beaumont One is co-based at 32MI - William Beaumont Hospital Heliport and KVLL - Oakland/Troy Airport in Troy, Michigan, United States.

William Bayard Jr.

William Bagshaw or Bagshall (1628–1702) was an English presbyterian and nonconformist minister, known as the "Apostle of the Peak".

William Bass (brewer)

William Brockenbrough (judge)

William Benjamin Bowring

William Beckner (disambiguation)

William Bennet or Bennett (c. 1767 – c. 1833), born at Combeinteignhead, Devonshire, was an English musician, an organist and pianist. Bennet's father was a landowner in Devon. As a young man he was taught at Exeter, but he later moved to London where he studied with Johann Christian Bach and with Johann Samuel Schroeter. Returning to the west of England, in 1793 he took up an appointment as organist at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth.

William Bagshawe

William Broadbent (minister)

Rev. William Brock

William Brittelle

William Bassett (d. 1693)

William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St. Albans (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1849) was an English aristocrat and cricket player. William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk was born on 24 March 1801. He was the son of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans, and his second wife, the former Maria Janetta Nelthorpe. He played a first-class cricket match for Hampshire in 1817. He died on 27 May 1849.

William Brighty Rands (24 December 1823, Chelsea, Middlesex — 23 April 1882, East Dulwich, London) was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of the Victorian era.

William Beatty Rochester

William Beamont Community High School

William Baxter (botanist)

William Bell (1 May 1806 – 4 August 1844) was a businessman and militia officer from Perth, Upper Canada. William Bell had a twin brother, John and was the son of William Bell, a Presbyterian missionary, who had arrived in Perth from Scotland in 1817. William and his brother both apprenticed in the mercantile trade before forming a partnership and opening a store at Perth in 1828. They also opened a store at Carleton Place with another brother, Robert. The aggressive merchandising style at the Perth store caused ill feelings amongst their competition. The most notable reaction was from William Morris with whom William had been apprenticed. The bad feeling ultimately divided Perth's Presbyterian congregation where their father was the minister.

William Baume (1885–1956) was a Swiss watchmaker who established the Baume & Mercier company in Geneva in 1918 with his partner, Paul Mercier.

William Bestick was an American professional baseball player in the early 1870s. He appeared in four games with the 1872 Brooklyn Eckfords, three of which as the catcher. In 14 at bats, he collected four hits for a .286 batting average. It is not known when or where he was born, nor when he died. Peter Morris, a baseball historian for SABR, claims that the only known man by this name that has been found, died on July 28, 1911 in New York, NY.

William Bartlett Fletcher, Sr

William Benson (baseball)

William Bentinck, first Earl of Portland

William T. Belfield (1856–1929) was an American urologist who is credited with having performed the first intentional prostatectomy (via the suprapubic route) in 1885, 1886 or 1887 at Cook County Hospital. It is possible he only performed a partial prostatectomy. The British surgeon Arthur Fergusson McGill (1850-1890) performed a similar procedure very close to this time, but McGill ultimately recognized Belfield as having been first. Belfield was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1856 but spent much of his childhood in Chicago. He earned his medical doctorate from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1877 and later became its chair of the department of urology in 1883. He traveled through Europe obtaining further surgical experience after graduating from medical school. He was instrumental in reporting the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Robert Koch in the United States and was an early champion of the discipline of microbiology. He was the sixth president of the American Urological Association.

William Beattie (1864 – 15 March 1931) was a New Zealand photographer. He was most well known for his work for the Auckland Weekly News. Beattie originally emigrated from Scotland to Tasmania, Australia with his brother. Both were photographers and subsequently found there was not enough trade in Hobart. In 1894, William moved to Auckland. He photographed for the Auckland Weekly News for sixteen years. Beattie managed to capture the wreckage of the Elingamite in the Three Kings in 1902. He also photographed the funeral of Sir John Logan Campbell in 1912. After he retired from the Auckland Weekly News, Beattie still remained a commercial photographer, setting up a shop in Shortland St, Auckland.

William Baum (disambiguation)

William Dolman Bees VC (12 September 1871 – 20 June 1938) 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. Born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset he was 29 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Derbyshire Regiment (later The Sherwood Foresters), British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place on 30 September 1901 at Moedwil, South Africa for which he was awarded the VC:

William Benson Mayo

William Henry Bennett (29 January 1843 – 20 August 1929) was an Australian politician. He was born in Launceston. In 1889 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Campbell Town. He was defeated in 1893, but returned in 1903 as the member for Cambria. In 1909, with the introduction of proportional representation, he ran for Franklin but was defeated. He died in Ross in 1929.

William Beau

William Brittelle (born 1977) is a North Carolina-born, Brooklyn-based composer of genre-fluid electro-acoustic music. Also active as a producer and curator, Brittelle is co-founder/co-artistic director of New Amsterdam Records with composers Sarah Kirkland Snider and Judd Greenstein and the curatorial collective Infinite Palette with producer Kate Nordstrum and composer Daniel Wohl.

William Benton Boggs (October 8, 1854 – February 18, 1922) was an exchange broker and Democratic politician from his adopted community of Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana. He was elected in the spring of 1890 as the founding mayor of Plain Dealing. From 1892 to 1900, he represented Bossier Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives. From 1908 to 1916, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate for Bossier and neighboring Webster parishes. Boggs was a native of Calhoun County in northeastern Alabama, which was formerly known as Benton County but renamed in 1858 for John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. Boggs was a son of Samuel J. Boggs and the former Lucinda E. Barnett. At the age of thirty-three, he was the first and foremost buyer of lots at a July 1888 auction in Plain Dealing, located just south of the Arkansas state line. In 1880, he married the former Estella Swindle, the daughter of his former employer, the merchant J. J. Swindle. He then married Lena Jones (1874-1963), whose father owned a store on Palmetto Avenue in Plain Dealing. Boggs organized the first bank in Plain Dealing; chartered in 1904, it failed in 1921, the year before his death. In addition to his tenure in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, Boggs was a delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1898.

William de Vere Beauclerk

William Benjamin Wells (October 3, 1809 – April 8, 1881) was a lawyer, judge, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Augusta Township in Upper Canada in 1809. He studied law with Marshall Spring Bidwell in Kingston and was called to the bar in 1833. In 1834, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada representing Grenville as a Reformer. Although he was reelected in 1836, he travelled to England to protest the interference by Sir Francis Bond Head in the election. He wrote Canadiana: containing sketches of Upper Canada, and the crisis in its political affairs, which described radical Reform policies of the time. He did not involve himself in the Upper Canada Rebellion; however, allegations of his involvement with William Lyon Mackenzie's Patriots led to his expulsion from the assembly. In 1851, he was appointed district court judge in Kent County. He retired from the bench in 1878. He contributed articles on law and sport to various periodicals in Canada and the United States.He died at Toronto in 1881.

William Benning Webb (1825 – March 15, 1896) was an American politician and attorney who was the Police Superintendent of Washington, D.C., and president of the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia, U.S., from 1886 to 1889. Webb was born in 1825, in Washington. He was only 19 years old when he graduated from Columbia College (now George Washington University, and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar Three years later. Upon admission he entered practice, in which he remained until 1861. That year, the capital's Metropolitan Police Department was organized, and Webb was appointed its first superintendent by Mayor Richard Wallach. It was under Webb's administration that the police force conducted the investigation into the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. That same year, Webb resigned from the Police Department and returned to his Washington law practice, where he commanded an extremely high reputation among his colleagues. The Washington Post said of Webb that "his digest of municipal laws, as affecting the national capital, is regarded as the standard authority." In 1885, upon the vacancy of Joseph Rodman West from his seat on the D.C. Board of Commissioners, President Grover Cleveland surprised the city establishment by offering the appointment to the popular and respected Webb, who accepted and joined the commission for its sixth session in July, 1885. When board president James Barker Edmonds declined reappointment on April 1, 1886, Cleveland raised Webb to the position. Webb died at his home in Washington on March 13, 1896, at the age of 70. In 1901, The William Benning Webb School, named in his honor, opened at 15th and Rosedale, NE. It was an all-white school, but by 1947 it had become unused and at late that year became an annex to all-black Browne Junior High School. It was shut down some time shortly thereafter and has been used for school storage ever since.

William Beauchamp Wildman

William Bell (born in or before 1538, died 1598) was an English lawyer. He was born into a gentry family from Worcestershire, the son of John Bell. He was educated at Warwick and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected to a fellowship, which, however, being a Roman Catholic, he was unable to hold. Bell then started working for John Throckmorton. Subsequently, he turned his attention to the law, studying at Clement's Inn for two years. He then appears to have returned to his native county, where he came to hold the office of clerk of the peace. He is said to have died at Temple Broughton (perhaps the same as the place now known as Broughton) in that county.

William Brito

William Bennett was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward. Born in Leyland, Lancashire, he was spotted by Football League First Division side Sheffield United while playing non-league football with Leyland Motors. He moved to Sheffield in February 1921, but was released in January 1922 after failing to make a first-team appearance. In March 1923, he again re-signed for Leyland Motors where he stayed until September 1924, when he joined Lytham. He left the club in 1925 and retired from football.

William Brereton (groom)

William Bendings (died c.1197) was an English judge and county sheriff. According to Gerald of Wales, Bendings was sent to Ireland by Henry II in 1176 as one of four envoys, of whom two were to remain with the viceroy, Richard FitzGilbert, Earl of Striguil, and two were to return, bringing with them Reimund Fitzgerald, whose exploits had aroused the king's jealousy. Reimund did not at once comply with the royal mandate, being compelled by the threatening attitude of Donnell to march to the relief of Limerick, a town which he had only recently taken. Richard also died that year, and the four envoys appear to have returned to England without Reimund. In 1178 Bendings was a royal justice in Yorkshire. In 1179, on the resignation of the chief justice, Richard de Lucy, a redistribution of the circuits was carried into effect. In place of the six circuits then existing the country was divided into four, to each of which, except the northern circuit, five judges were assigned, three or four of the number being laymen. To the northern circuit six judges were assigned, of whom Bendings was one, having for one of his colleagues the celebrated Ranulf Glanvill, who was made chief justice the following year. Bendings is named as a royal justice in a November 1179 fine made at Westminster. In 1183-4 we find him acting as sheriff of Dorset and Somerset, the two counties being united under his single jurisdiction. There seems to be no reason to suppose, with Edward Foss, that the expression, 'sex justitiæ in curia regis constituti ad audiendum clamores populi', applied to the six judges of the northern circuit, imports any jurisdiction peculiar to them. Bendings was survived by his wife, Gunnora, and a son, Adam. The date of his death is uncertain: he was living in 1189-90, since he is entered in the 11890 pipe roll as rendering certain accounts to the exchequer. But he seems to have died by 1196/7, when his son Adam started accounting for debts his father had incurred as sheriff of Dorset and Somerset.

William Beattie

William Bedford (admiral)

William Benjamin Smith (October 26, 1850 – August 6, 1934) was a professor of mathematics at Tulane University, best known as a proponent of the Christ myth theory.

William Beecher (disambiguation)

William Bagwell (disambiguation)

William Benjamin Wells (October 3, 1809 – April 8, 1881) was a lawyer, judge, journalist and political figure in Upper Canada. He was born in Augusta Township in Upper Canada in 1809. He studied law with Marshall Spring Bidwell in Kingston and was called to the bar in 1833. In 1834, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada representing Grenville as a Reformer. Although he was reelected in 1836, he travelled to England to protest the interference by Sir Francis Bond Head in the election. He wrote Canadiana: containing sketches of Upper Canada, and the crisis in its political affairs, which described radical Reform policies of the time. He did not involve himself in the Upper Canada Rebellion; however, allegations of his involvement with William Lyon Mackenzie's Patriots le

William Beaglehole

watchmaker and pastor

William Bayly (politician)

William Beardmore & Co

William Beck, Sr.

William Beardmore and Company
William Beardmore and Company was a Scottish engineering and shipbuilding conglomerate based in Glasgow and the surrounding Clydeside area. It was active from 1886 to the mid-1930s and at its peak employed about 40,000 people. It was founded and owned by William Beardmore, later Lord Invernairn, after whom the Beardmore Glacier was named.

William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist. Busnach was a nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with David Ben Joseph Coen Bakri, to whom France was indebted to the amount of some twenty-odd million francs for provisions furnished to Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt. The lawsuit lasted for more than fifty years, and Busnach and his partner were not paid in full at the end. The elder Busnach, an Algerian Jew, became a naturalised Italian in the time of the Deys, and was the first interpreter of the French army. He established himself in Paris in 1835.

William Beatty (disambiguation)

Painter

William Bateson's

William Bastard

William Bechtel (born 1951) is a professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 until 2002 . Bechtel was also the chair of the Philosophy Department from 1999 until 2002 and was heavily involved with the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience program, serving at different times as Assistant Director and Director. Before that, he was at Georgia State. Bechtel earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and his BA from Kenyon College.

William Barry Pennington

William Bayard Jr. (1761 – September 18, 1826) was a prominent New York City banker and a member of the Society of the New York Hospital. He was a close friend to Alexander Hamilton, who was taken to his Greenwich Village home after his famous duel with Aaron Burr, where Hamilton later died.

William Benson (Abbot)

William Brockenbrough (jurist)

William Beckford of Somerley (?–1799) was a Jamaican slave-owner and writer.

William Bemister

William Bedford (chaplain)

William Behle

William Bell, No. 24

William Bauer

William Briscoe

William H. Bassett (born December 28, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois, USA) is an American actor of film and television. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs since the 1960s. Bassett was known for his role in ads for Whataburger. He has appeared in films such as Lucky Lady, Return from Witch Mountain, The Karate Kid, Black Eagle, House of 1000 Corpses, Demon Hunter and Black Dynamite and such television shows as Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Bonanza, The Feather and Father Gang, The Love Boat, Days of Our Lives, Quincy M.E., Lou Grant, Dallas, The Young and the Restless, Newhart, General Hospital, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Scrubs and Arrested Development. Bassett's work as a voice actor includes the video games Metal Gear Solid, Warcraft 3: Th

William Broadbent Luddington (March 1843 – November 1888) was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went to the island of Fernando Po (today Bioko in Equatorial Guinea) in about 1880. His father was also a Primitive Methodist Minister.

William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans

co-founder ofBaume et Mercier

William Bean (politician)

William Bennett (1811–1871) was an English watercolour landscape painter. It is believed that Bennett received his first lessons in art from David Cox. They went on painting trips to beauty spots in north Wales, the north of England and Scotland, with David Cox Jnr (Cox's son) and other artist friends. In 1848 he was made a member of the New Water-Colour Society, and contributed landscapes, chiefly of English scenery, to their exhibitions, until his death in 1871. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA), British Institution (BI) and the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA).

William Beckley (actor)

William Bradley Roland

William Bestick

Playwright

William FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Earl FitzHardinge (26 December 1786 – 10 October 1857), known as The Lord Segrave between 1831 and 1841, was a British landowner and politician.

William Barret Travis Elementary School

William Bell (May 28, 1780 – August 16, 1857) was a Presbyterian minister, born in Scotland and an immigrant to Upper Canada. Bell and his family settled in Perth, Upper Canada, in 1817. He was a significant figure in promoting and expandingthe Presbyterian faith among the settlers in his region. He assisted in starting congregations in Beckwith Township, Lanark, Smiths Falls and Richmond. His carefully constructed diaries and other writings provide an important insight into the interactions between the and the . His son William Bell was a businessman and militia officer who gained some notability in Canadian history. Another son, Robert Bell, was a notable politician in Lanark County.

William Jack Baumol (February 26, 1922 – May 4, 2017) was an American economist. He was a professor of economics at New York University, Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He was a prolific author of more than eighty books and several hundred journal articles, Baumol wrote extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made significant contributions to the theory of entrepreneurship and the history of economic thought. He is among the most influential economists in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. Baumol was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2003,and Thomson Reuters cited him as a potential recipient in 2014, but he died without receiving the prize.

William Benjamin Reed

William Brinsley Nicholson

Beardmore Mk7 Paramount Taxicab

Beardmore 12/30 Tourer, 1925

William Beck (dean)

William Benton Boggs

William Beckett

William Bateman (disambiguation)

William Bedford Sr. House

William Bennett (footballer)

William Britain (disambiguation)

William Bence Jones

William Barton Wright

William Bebbington

William Beaudine
William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.

William Dolman Bees

William Brito (or William the Breton) was a medieval clergyman in England during the 12th century. Brito was a royal chaplain and was appointed Archdeacon of Ely by 1110. He was a nephew of Hervey le Breton, the Bishop of Ely. He is last mentioned as archdeacon in 1144 or 1145, but was probably suspended from office on 22 December 1150 and was removed from his archdeaconry by 1152. He was the father of a son named Henry, who became a member of the clergy. The historian, Edward Miller, of the see of Ely called Brito "warlike".

William Beik

William Bede Dalley (5 August 1831 – 28 October 1888) was an Australian politician and barrister and the first Australian appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. He was a leading lay representative and champion of the Catholic community and was known for his parliamentary and legal eloquence.

Colonial Administrator

William Benham

William Benjamin Chaffey

Bill

William Barton is an Australian Aboriginal didgeridoo player. He was born in Mount Isa, Queensland on 4 June 1981 and learned to play from his uncle, an elder of the Wannyi, Lardil and Kalkadunga tribes of Western Queensland. He is widely recognised as one of Australia's finest traditional didgeridoo players and a leading didgeridoo player in the classical world. "I'm doing what I love," Barton says. "I want to take the oldest culture in the world and blend it with Europe's rich musical legacy." Barton has been featured on the ABC television program, Australian Story.

William Becke

William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist. The son of Ann (née Mendenhall) and the naturalist John Bartram, William Bartram and his twin sister Elizabeth were born in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a boy, he accompanied his father on many of his travels to the Catskill Mountains, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, New England, and Florida. From his mid-teens, Bartram was noted for the quality of his botanic and ornithological drawings. He also had an increasing role in the maintenance of his father's botanic garden, and added many rare species to it.

William Bassett (c 1602 - 1656) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1644. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Bassett was born at Colchester the son of Martin Bassett. He was at school in Colchester and was admitted at Christ's College, Cambridge on 15 January 1627 aged 15. His father bought Claverton, an estate of 1,300 acres outside Bath, in 1609 and moved there.

William Leonard Gill Bagshawe (28 October 1828 – 20 July 1854) was an English landowner and rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1848. Bagshawe was the son of William John Bagshawe of Wormhill Hall Derbyshire, a barrister and his wife Sarah Partridge. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1848 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley and was awarded his rowing Blue in 1849 when he rowed in the victorious Cambridge crew in the Boat Race in the March race. Oxford challenged Cambridge to a boat race re-row in December in which he took part, but the race was awarded to Oxford after a foul by the Cambridge boat.

William Beaumont Hospital Troy

William Beal (cricket)

William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist. Busnach was a nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy. His father was associated with David Ben Joseph Coen Bakri, to whom France was indebted to the amount of some twenty-odd million francs for provisions furnished to Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt. The lawsuit lasted for more than fifty years, and Busnach and his partner were not paid in full at the end. The elder Busnach, an Algerian Jew, became a naturalised Italian in the time of the Deys, and was the first interpreter of the French army. He established himself in Paris in 1835. William – an Italian Jew born in France of an Algerian father, with a German (European way of writing the Arabic name Boujnah is a more logic explanation) surname and an English given name – was at first employed in the customs department. He subsequently devoted himself to dramatic work, writing many plays, a number of which have been successful. They include: Les Virtuoses du Pavé, 1864; Première Fraîcheur, Paris-Revue, 1869; Héloïse et Abélard, with music by Henry Litolff, 1872; Forte en Gueule, La Liqueur d'Or, in collaboration with Armand Liorat, music by Laurent de Rillé 1873; Kosiki, with Liorat, music by Alexandre Charles Lecocq, 1876 and with Albert Vanloo Ali-Baba, 1887. In 1867 Busnach assumed the direction of the Théâtre de l'Athénée, where several of his operettas (Fleur-de-Thé, etc.) were performed. His greatest successes he achieved, however, with his adaptation of celebrated novels for the stage; for example, L'Assommoir, 1881; Nana, 1882; Pot-Bouille, 1883, all by Émile Zola; Le Petit Jacques, by Jules Claretie, 1885; La Marchande des Quatre Saisons, etc. Busnach is also the author of the following novels: La Fille de M. Lecoq, 1886; Le Petit Gosse, 1889; Cyprienne Guérard, 1895, etc. A chapter of Vanloo's memoirs Sur le plateau, Souvenirs d'un librettiste is about Busnach, where Vanloo described his colleague as a jovial, lively man, on close terms with all Paris, and who took delight in using strong language. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "William Bertrand Busnach". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

William Charles Brittain (known as 'Carl') was a lance-corporal of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment who was serving in No. 4 Commando at the time of his capture in Suda Bay, Crete, in June 1941. During the Second World War he became a member of the "staff" at the PoW "holiday camp" in Genshagen, Berlin in mid-1943 and later a Rottenführer in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps. In Dresden in February 1945 he "had long since lost his enthusiasm for the unit and was planning to escape. During a conversation with his girlfriend, a Norwegian nurse, he boasted of his plans and also claimed that he had foreknowledge of the bombing raids. Shocked by this, she denounced him almost immediately to the Gestapo and the BFC were arrested en masse. "[His] court-martial ... took place at Colchester in June 1946 and he received a ten-year sentence. Two months later he was found to be suffering from an incurable form of Crohn’s disease and he was released.

William Bell Riley

William Beale (aviator)

William Bentney

William Broadbent, 1st Baronet

William Bayly (barrister)

William Bell (clergyman)

William Baxter ALS, FHS (Rugby, Warwickshire, January 15, 1787 - November 1, 1871), was a British botanist, author of British Phaenogamous Botany and appointed curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden in 1813. William Hart Baxter (c.1816-1890), William Baxter's son, succeeded his father as curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden.This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Baxter when citing a botanical name.

William Berger

William Brisbane

William Bees

William Bentinck (governor)

William Beresford (disambiguation)

William Barton Worthington (8 July 1854 – 29 December 1939) was a British civil engineer. William Worthington was born in Lancaster to Samuel Barton Worthington, a railway engineer. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and then at the University of London. Following this he was apprenticed to his father. Upon completion of his apprenticeship he joined Blyth & Cunningham of Edinburgh working on projects for the Caledonian Railway. He then set up practice as a consultant engineer and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1921 and 1922.

William Basil Jones

William Benson

William Leonard Gill Bagshawe (28 October 1828 – 20 July 1854) was an English landowner and rower who won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1848. Bagshawe was the son of William John Bagshawe of Wormhill Hall Derbyshire, a barrister and his wife Sarah Partridge. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1848 he won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley and was awarded his rowing Blue in 1849 when he rowed in the victorious Cambridge crew in the Boat Race in the March race. Oxford challenged Cambridge to a boat race re-row in December in which he took part, but the race was awarded to Oxford after a foul by the Cambridge boat. Bagshawe succeeded to his father's estate at Wormhill in 1851. He was killed in an affray with poachers at Millers Dale. "A very promising, plucky, young fellow", he went with the keepers to deal with poachers who were netting the River Wye on his land, and was struck down by them with a stake on an island in the stream. His younger brother Francis Bagshawe inherited the estates.

William Bentney, alias Bennet, (1609 – 30 October 1692) was an English Jesuit priest during the 17th century when English Roman Catholics were under severe penalties. Bentney was born in Cheshire. He entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1630 and was sent to the English missions in 1640. He laboured there with great zeal and success for forty-two years. A victim of the Oates Plot, he was betrayed and arrested at the instigation of a nobleman to whose sisters he was administering the sacraments, and was taken to the Leicester jail. No one in those parts being willing to bear witness against him, being so universally esteemed, Bentney was at once transferred to Derby, where he was tried and sentenced to death at the Spring Assizes of 1682. His execution was delayed for unknown reasons and on the accession of James II he was released. After the Glorious Revolution in 1688, however, he was rearrested, tried and condemned, but the sentence remained suspended, and in 1692 he died in Leicester jail at the age of 83 or 84.

William Beamont

William Beardall Tosohatchee Reserve State Park

William Bennett Kilpack

William Charles Brittain (known as 'Carl') was a lance-corporal of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment who was serving in No. 4 Commando at the time of his capture in Suda Bay, Crete, in June 1941. During the Second World War he became a member of the "staff" at the PoW "holiday camp" in Genshagen, Berlin in mid-1943 and later a Rottenführer in the Waffen-SS British Free Corps. In Dresden in February 1945 he "had long since lost his enthusiasm for the unit and was planning to escape. During a conversation with his girlfriend, a Norwegian nurse, he boasted of his plans and also claimed that he had foreknowledge of the bombing raids. Shocked by this, she denounced him almost immediately to the Gestapo and the BFC were arrested en masse. "[His] court-martial ... took place at Colchester in June

William Basset (13th-century judge)

William H. Bassett (born December 28, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois, USA) is an American actor of film and television. He has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs since the 1960s. Bassett was known for his role in ads for Whataburger. He has appeared in films such as Lucky Lady, Return from Witch Mountain, The Karate Kid, Black Eagle, House of 1000 Corpses, Demon Hunter and Black Dynamite and such television shows as Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Bonanza, The Feather and Father Gang, The Love Boat, Days of Our Lives, Quincy M.E., Lou Grant, Dallas, The Young and the Restless, Newhart, General Hospital, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Scrubs and Arrested Development. Bassett's work as a voice actor includes the video games Metal Gear Solid, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Fallout 3, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy Type-0 HD and World of Final Fantasy, along with being the narrator for the documentary Inside: Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. He was the Inquizitor on Inquizition on Game Show Network from 1998-2001

William Berczy Public School

William Dolman Bees VC (12 September 1871 – 20 June 1938) 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. Born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset he was 29 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Derbyshire Regiment (later The Sherwood Foresters), British Army during the Second Boer War when the following deed took place on 30 September 1901 at Moedwil, South Africa for which he was awarded the VC: Private Bees was one of the Maxim-gun detachment, which at Moedwil, on the 30th September, 1901, had six men hit out of nine. Hearing his wounded comrades asking for water, he went forward, under a heavy fire, to a spruit held by Boers about 500 yards ahead of the gun, and brought back a kettle full of water. In going and returning he had to pass within 100 yards of some rocks also held by Boers, and the kettle which he was carrying was hit by several bullets. He later achieved the rank of corporal. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Sherwood Foresters Museum at Nottingham Castle, England.

William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

William Brimage Bate

William Batt (disambiguation)

William Baker (Lower Canada politician)

William Bennett (1811–1871) was an English watercolour landscape painter. It is believed that Bennett received his first lessons in art from David Cox. They went on painting trips to beauty spots in north Wales, the north of England and Scotland, with David Cox Jnr (Cox's son) and other artist friends. In 1848 he was made a member of the New Water-Colour Society, and contributed landscapes, chiefly of English scenery, to their exhibitions, until his death in 1871. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA), British Institution (BI) and the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). Bennett learnt from Cox the ability to draw with speed, and worked with a restricted range of colours, achieving his artistic effect by "the quickest and most dexterous use of a large brush full of colour dashed with hurried certainty over the roughest paper". In this way he achieved the effect of portraying the initial impact of the scene to the artist, but at the expense of accuracy. Bennett lived for a period at "Milford Lodge", New Park Road, in Clapham Park, London (the house has since been demolished); next door but one to David Cox Jnr and his family, who lived at "no. 82" from 1860. He died in 1871 and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery, London. One of Bennett's pupils was (1832–1905).

William Barton Worthington (8 July 1854 – 29 December 1939) was a British civil engineer. William Worthington was born in Lancaster to Samuel Barton Worthington, a railway engineer. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and then at the University of London. Following this he was apprenticed to his father. Upon completion of his apprenticeship he joined Blyth & Cunningham of Edinburgh working on projects for the Caledonian Railway. In 1876 he became the resident engineer for the London and North Western Railway, working on the construction of Manchester Exchange Station. During this time he worked under the supervision of the Chief Engineer, William Baker. In 1890 he was appointed assistant engineer to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, becoming their chief engineer in 1897. He became chief engineer at Midland Railway in 1905, remaining there until his retirement in 1915. He then set up practice as a consultant engineer and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between 1921 and 1922.

William T. Belfield (1856–1929) was an American urologist who is credited with having performed the first intentional prostatectomy (via the suprapubic route) in 1885, 1886 or 1887 at Cook County Hospital. It is possible he only performed a partial prostatectomy. The British surgeon Arthur Fergusson McGill (1850-1890) performed a similar procedure very close to this time, but McGill ultimately recognized Belfield as having been first.

William Bathurst

William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist. The son of Ann (née Mendenhall) and the naturalist John Bartram, William Bartram and his twin sister Elizabeth were born in Kingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a boy, he accompanied his father on many of his travels to the Catskill Mountains, the New Jersey Pine Barrens, New England, and Florida. From his mid-teens, Bartram was noted for the quality of his botanic and ornithological drawings. He also had an increasing role in the maintenance of his father's botanic garden, and added many rare species to it. In 1773, he embarked upon a four-year journey through eight southern colonies. Bartram made many drawings and took notes on the native flora and fauna, and the native American Indians. In 1774, he explored the St. Johns River, where he had memorable encounters with aggressive alligators, and also visited a principal Seminole village at , where his arrival was celebrated with a great feast. He met Ahaya the Cowkeeper, chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. When Bartram explained to the Cowkeeper that he was interested in studying the local plants and animals, the chief was amused and began calling him Puc Puggy (the flower hunter). Bartram continued his explorations of the Alachua Savannah, or what is today Paynes Prairie. William Bartram wrote of his experiences exploring the Southeast in his book Travels through North & South Carolina, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws, Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians, published in 1791 and which is today simply known as Bartram's Travels. E. G. Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis, in their book, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, name Bartram as "the first naturalist who penetrated the dense tropical forests of Florida."

William Baker (1789 – May 1866) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada. He represented Missisquoi in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1854 until the suspension of the constitution in 1838. He was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph Baker and Maria "Molly" Stevens, and came to Dunham in Lower Canada in 1799 with his family. Baker studied medicine but never practised as a physician. He was named village schoolmaster in 1812 but shortly afterwards entered business. Baker was named justice of the peace in 1831. Baker was married, probably in Massachusetts, around 1821. He died in Dunham. His brother Stevens also represented Missisquoi in the assembly. His son George Barnard served in the Quebec assembly and the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. His grandson George Harold Baker was a member of the Canadian House of Commons.

William Beaumont Hospital Heliport is a heliport located in Royal Oak, Michigan, United States. It is operated by William Beaumont Hospital of the Beaumont Health System. Currently there is only one helipad, made of concrete. The helipad is 66 feet square [20m x 20m] so only one helicopter can land or take off at one time. A second helipad is being added.

William Brittain

William Beard (1772-1868)

William Beattie (1864 – 15 March 1931) was a New Zealand photographer. He was most well known for his work for the Auckland Weekly News. Beattie originally emigrated from Scotland to Tasmania, Australia with his brother. Both were photographers and subsequently found there was not enough trade in Hobart. In 1894, William moved to Auckland. He photographed for the Auckland Weekly News for sixteen years. Beattie managed to capture the wreckage of the Elingamite in the Three Kings in 1902. He also photographed the funeral of Sir John Logan Campbell in 1912.

William Beinart

William Batson

William Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Beaumont

William Bagthorpe

William Britton Baird

William Berezowsky

William Bell (1806-44)

William Bate (Quaker)

William Ballantyne Simpson