Colonel William Digges (c1651- 24 July 1697) was a politician in Colonial Virginia and a councillor in Colonial Maryland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was the son of Edward Digges (1620-1674/5), Governor of Virginia from 1655 to 1656. He was a member of the Maryland Proprietary Council until losing his office in 1689 during the Protestant Revolution, when the Calvert Proprietorship was overthrown by a Puritan revolt. He lived at Warburton Manor, an estate which is today the location of Fort Washington.

William Digby Seymour (1805–1872) was a merchant in Londonand a Whig politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull at a ,after the constituency's writ had been suspended for a year following a void election in 1852. At the hustings he proclaimed himself a supporter of free trade, the secret ballot, an extension of the franchise, and of religious freedom and toleration. He held the seat until the 1857 general election, when he did not stand again,and Hull was contested unsuccessfully by his namesake William Digby Seymour.

Captain William Drummond Matheson MC was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. Sergeant Matheson was promoted to temporary 2nd lieutenant (on probation) on 12 November 1916. His citation for the Military Cross, published in the Supplement to the London Gazette, states:

William Macquarie Cowper (known in his youth as Macquarie; 3 July 1810 – 14 June 1902) was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. Cowper was born in Sydney, the son of the Revd William Cowper, assistant colonial chaplain, and his second wife, Ann (née Barrell) . Educated by his father and at the University of Oxford, he graduated BA from Magdalen Hall in 1833 and MA in 1835. Following admission to deacon´s order, he was appointed curate of St Petrox, Dartmouth, and ordained priest at Exeter in 1834. He returned to Australia in 1836 and was made chaplain at Port Stephens, New South Wales where he remained for 20 years. He then became Acting Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney, for a few months after the college opened at Liverpool on 1 March 1856, following which h

William Danvers SL JP (1428 – 19 April 1504) was a British judge. He was the son of John Danvers and his second wife Joan, and half-brother of Robert Danvers, another notable judge. He became a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire in 1456, and served again for Berkshire in 1463. He represented Taunton in Parliament in 1467 and 1472, and with him in that Parliament was his brother Thomas, who sat for Downton. William was also member for Hindon in 1478. He became a Serjeant-at-Law in 1485 and was made a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas on 5 February 1488.

William Duane Morgan (1817–1887) was a newspaper editor and Democratic politician. He owned papers in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and later Ohio. He was also Ohio State Auditor 1852-1856. William Duane Morgan was born to a prominent family in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1837, he and his brother, Thomas Jefferson Morgan, owned and edited the Washington County Democratic newspaper Our Country.

William Duchman (October 8, 1809 – November 14, 1881) was an American businessman and politician. Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Duchman served as register of deeds of Lancaster County and was an aide on the staff of the Governor of Pennsylvania William F. Johnston. In 1849, Duchman moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and, in 1850, to Menasha, Wisconsin. He was a lumber sawmill operator and manufacturer of paper. In 1858, Duchman served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and was a Republican. He died in Menasha.

William Crashawe

William Cornyn

William Dowdeswell (1682-1728)

William Davies Thomas (5 August 1889 – 6 March 1954) was a Welsh academic who was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and the first Professor of English language and literature at University College, Swansea in Wales.

William Duborgh Jensen (10 May 1935 – 24 May 2017) was a Norwegian fashion and costume designer. William was first known as a fashion designer; he was Norway's first "haute couturier" with his own collection in 1958. He later worked in television and film as a costume designer. He was appointed as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his efforts in fashion design. William died at the age of 82.

Colonel Sir William Edward Carne Curre, 1st Baronet CBE, JP, DL (26 June 1855 – 26 January 1930), was a British landowner and magistrate. Curre was the son of Edward Mathew Curre, of Itton Court, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Monmouthshire, by Annie King, of Chepstow. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Monmouthshire Engineers Militia and served as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire between 1892 and 1893. In 1920 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was created a baronet, of Itton Court in the Parish of Itton and County of Monmouth in 1928. Curre died in January 1930, aged 74, when the title became extinct.

William Dow (March 27, 1800 – December 7, 1868) was a Scottish-born brewer and financier of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Born at Muthill, Perthshire, he was the eldest son of Dr William Dow (1765-1844), Brewmaster, and Anne Mason. Since 1652, his family had been brewing in Perthshire. Having gained an extensive experience in brewing under his father, he emigrated to Montreal, Lower Canada from Scotland in about 1818. He was employed as foreman of Thomas Dunn's brewery in Montreal and quickly became a partner. His younger brother, Andrew, who had also trained as a brewer, joined him, and on the death of Dunn, the company became known as William Dow and Company, later known as Dow Breweries. It soon was a strong competitor to Molson's, the biggest brewery in the city. Dow was also a financier a

William Cowsill

William Curtis (disambiguation)

William Cramp & Sons Building & Engine Company

William Dubois (1841 – April 29, 1910) was an American civil servant who served as Chief Usher of the White House in Washington, D.C., from June 1896 to January 1901. He was the first person to formally receive the title Chief Usher, although in previous years it had been used unofficially and in press reports.

William R. Dubois (1879-1953) was an American architect. He was a prolific architect in Wyoming and nearby states. William Robert Dubois designed more than 70 commercial buildings in Cheyenne, including almost all that were built in Cheyenne during 1900 to 1920. He designed more than 100 houses, 27 schools, six churches, and four Carnegie libraries. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 15, 1879. He died May 31, 1953. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (attribution):

William Creswick (27 December 1813 – 17 June 1888) was an English actor. A popular tragedian on the London stage, he appeared with many leading actors of his day, including William Charles Macready, Edwin Booth and Fanny Kemble and was well known for his Shakespearean and melodrama roles in Britain, the U.S. and Australia.

William Cuthbertson (21 July 1902 in Dunfermline – 24 November 1963) was a British flyweight boxer who competed in the 1920s. He won the bronze medal in Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics losing against Danish boxer Anders Petersen in the semi-finals.

William Corbin (McGraw) (born January 22, 1916 in Des Moines, Iowa, died June 6, 1999 in Portland, Oregon) was the author of various books for adults and children.He started his writing career as a newspaperman and later married Eloise Jarvis McGraw, also an author.Corbin became more serious about writing fiction and moved into a house with a 23-acre filbert orchard to do so. Several of Corbin's works received awards. His novel Smoke was made into a movie of the same name in 1970, and a British television series based on Corbin's Horse in the House was produced from 1977 to 1979.William Corbin had two children, Lauren and Peter McGraw.

William Dawson (New Zealand)

William Cumming Henley (6 January 1860 – 6 November 1919) was a self-taught scientist, artist and collector who was born, educated and died in Dartmouth, Devon in England, and whose lifetime collection of artefacts is held in the Dartmouth Museum. Henley is the subject of a biography, William Cumming Henley: His days and ways.

William D. Caroe

William Coryton

William Richmond Dowd (28 February 1922 – 25 November 2008) was an American harpsichord maker and one of the most important pioneers of the historical harpsichord movement.

William Diard (April 26, 1924 — March 8, 2009) was an American operatic tenor, teacher, musician, and actor.

William Curry Holden (July 19, 1896 – April 21, 1993), also known as Curry Holden, was an historian and archaeologist. In 1937, he became the first director of the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. During his tenure, the museum gained regional and state recognition for excellence. Holden also guided the plans for a new museum building, which was dedicated on November 11, 1970. The museum includes the main building, the Moody Planetarium, the Natural Science Research Laboratory, the research and educational elements of the Lubbock Lake Landmark, and the Val Verde County research site.

William D. Catto is a United States Marine Corps major general who is the Chief of Staff of the United States European Command. He assumed the post in July 2006, becoming the first U.S. Marine to hold the role. Catto has served over 10 years in command assignments at the LtCol, Colonel, BGen, and MajGen ranks.

William Cordeiro Melo (born 15 July 1993), known as William Cordeiro or simply William, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Kukësi as a right back.

William Davies (1 February 1824 – 14 August 1890) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Manchester to Thomas and Anna Maria Davies. He migrated to New South Wales around 1849, becoming a bookkeeper at Goulburn before moving to Melbourne to work for the Argus. In 1852 he mined for gold at Araluen before returning to Goulburn in the later 1850s. On 11 May 1852 he married Maria Cooper at Surry Hills; they had four children. He managed a variety of stores throughout the region and was an alderman at Goulburn from 1859 to 1887, serving four times as mayor. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Argyle, but he did not re-contest in 1880. He went further into business in the 1880s, becoming involved in mining and railway companies before becoming insolvent in 1887. Davies was a prominent Wesleyan Methodist and was for many years active in the Goulburn Wesleyan circuit. His eldest son was the first pupil enrolled at Newington College on its inauguration at Newington House at Silverwater, New South Wales. At the time Arthur was under 9 years old. Davies helped to lay the foundation stone of Newington at its new campus at Stanmore, New South Wales and became a life member of its council. Davies died at Redfern in 1890.

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William DuBay

William Davie Brown

William David Sutton

William Clay

William De Stanwey

William Curlett & Son

William Denby Hanna

William Cornelius Sullivan

William Cullen Bryant Homestead

William Cuffay

William Drummond (13 December 1585 – 4 December 1649), called "of Hawthornden", was a Scottish poet.

William D. McCrackan (1864-1923) was an American journalist and author of books on history and travel. In 1900, he converted to Christian Science and became a Christian Science practitioner, teacher and lecturer.

William Cowan (1818)

William Dickson (footballer born 1866)

William Duane Morgan (1817–1887) was a newspaper editor and Democratic politician. He owned papers in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and later Ohio. He was also Ohio State Auditor 1852-1856. William Duane Morgan was born to a prominent family in Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1837, he and his brother, Thomas Jefferson Morgan, owned and edited the Washington County Democratic newspaper Our Country. In 1840 he moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he owned the Ohio Patriot. He was nominated at the state Democratic Party convention for Ohio State Auditor in 1851, and defeated his Free Soil Party and incumbent Whig opponents in the general election. He served a four-year term, but was defeated by Republican Francis Mastin Wright for re-election. He then owned the Newark Advocate in Newark, Ohio from 1856 to 1880. He died in 1887.

William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn

William Cowan (footballer)

William Davies (rugby league born circa-1920)

William DePuy House is a historic home located at Lima in Livingston County, New York. It was built about 1851 and is a ​1 1⁄2-story frame dwelling with vernacular Greek Revival and Gothic Revival design elements. The front features a 1-story hip-roofed porch supported by Doric columns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

William De La Mare

William Cyprian Pinkham

1st Proprietary Governor of Albemarle Sound

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William Duane

William Dowel (Australian politician)

William D. Burlison

William Cumming Henley

William Durant "Bill" Campbell (March 18, 1907 – October 20, 1995) was a highly-decorated leader of the Scouting movement in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Campbell was born in Flint, Michigan, a grandson of William C. Durant, the founder of General Motors. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929, and first went into banking. After a few years, he became a field associate of the American Museum of Natural History and led six of their African expeditions in the 1930s. During World War II, Campbell served in the U.S. Army as a battery commander. He retired as a major.

Wiliam Dawson Jr. (August 11, 1885 – July 3, 1972) was a career United States diplomat. He was U.S. ambassador to multiple countries, including being the first ambassador to the Organization of American States. He was born at Saint Paul, Minnesota, on 11 August 1885, the son of William Dawson and Maria Rice. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1906, he attended the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and soon after entered the United States Foreign Service. His first posting was to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1908. He served as vice and deputy consul-general to Barcelona, Spain, and Frankfurt, Germany; and consul at Rosario, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Danzig, Poland; and Munich, Germany. Dawson was consul-general at large from 1922 to 1924 and served as chief instructor at the Department of State's Foreign Service School from 1925 to 1928. He married Agnes Balloch Bready on 8 June 1926. He served in Mexico as consul-general; was U.S. Minister to Ecuador, Colombia and Uruguay; and U.S. ambassador to Panama and Uruguay during his long career. After retiring in 1946 he served as advisor on Latin American affairs to the U.S. delegation during the formation of the United Nations, went to Brazil on a special mission with General George Marshall and became the first U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States. He died on 3 July 1972 at the Blue Hill Memorial Hospital, in Blue Hill, Maine. Following a private funeral service he was buried later at Washington, D.C.

William Davies Evans Gambit

William Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon

William D. Crowder

William Curre

William Drummond was an Australian rules footballer for the Port Adelaide Football Club.

William Duncan Connor (March 24, 1864 – November 20, 1944) was a Canadian-born American politician and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1907–1909.

William Cuffay (1788 – July 1870) was a Chartist leader in early Victorian London.

William Duane (February 17, 1872 – March 7, 1935) was an American physicist. A coworker of Marie Curie, he developed a method for generating quantities of radon in the laboratory.

William Thomas George Divers (1 September 1896 – 29 June 1978) was an Australian politician. He was born in Collingwood to brushmaker William Clinton Divers and Annie May Cozens. He attended the local state school and was a child actor until 1910. From 1910 to 1914 he was in the merchant navy; he served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1914 to 1918 during World War I and then returned to the merchant navy until 1920. In 1924 he married Ethelwynne Bowen, with whom he had two children; a later marriage on 5 November 1955 was to Lorna Jean Peters, née Forbes. He was an organiser with the Municipal Employees Union in 1925 and an industrial officer from 1928 to 1946, when he became state general secretary. A Labor Party member, he served on Essendon City Council from 1932 to 1946 and was mayor

William Corry (1779–1833) was a politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was in the Ohio House of Representatives and was the Mayor of Cincinnati from 1815-1819. William Corry was born in Virginia. His father was killed at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1781. William stayed on his mother's farm and attended local schools until age 20. In 1798, he was invited by William McMillan, a relative, to come to Cincinnati. He lived with McMillan and studied law in his office. Corry was admitted to the bar in 1803. After McMillan's death in 1804, Corry moved to Hamilton and associated with John Reily. When Reily became clerk of courts, Corry practiced alone until his marriage in 1810. In 1807, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives from Butler County for the sixth General Assembly. Corry returned to Cincinnati in 1811 to administer to trust for Mr. McMillan's estate. He was librarian for the Cincinnati Library, which operated from his home. In 1812, he represented Hamilton County in the Ohio House of Representatives for the eleventh General Assembly, and he was elected Mayor of Cincinnati in 1815. He was the only Mayor of the Town of Cincinnati from 1815 to 1819. Before 1815, Cincinnati was a village, and after 1819, it was a city. After his term as mayor, Corry returned to practice of law, and he was twice more elected to the Ohio House for the 18th General Assembly, 1819 and the 25th General Assembly, 1826. In his later years, Corry's health was poor, and he died in 1833.

William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts

William David Lindsay Ride

William Douglas the Hardy

William Culican

William Duane (disambiguation)

William Davis Daly (June 4, 1851 – July 31, 1900) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1900.

William Drummond (MP)

William Cornwallis Symonds

William Corson

Sir William Cornwallis (c. 1576 – 1 July 1614) was an early English essayist and served as a courtier and member of Parliament. His essays, influenced by the style of Montaigne, rather than that of Francis Bacon, became a model for later English essayists. He has sometimes been confused with his uncle of the same name.

William Douglass (c. 1691–1752) was a physician in 18th-century Boston, Massachusetts, who wrote pamphlets on medicine, economics and politics that were often polemical.

William Dronfield (April 1826 – 24 August 1894) was a British trade unionist. Born in Sheffield, Dronfield became a compositor. In 1849, he was a founder member of the Provincial Typographical Association, and from 1852 to 1855 served as its President. In 1858, many Sheffield compositors were involved in a dispute with the owner of the newspaper. In order to build solidarity for their cause, they founded the Sheffield Association of Organised Trades. Dronfield was elected as its first secretary, a post he held until 1867. Dronfield died in 1894 and is buried in Sheffield General Cemetery.

William Dowdeswell (1804-1870)

William Corbet (disambiguation)

William DePuy House

William Corry (1779–1833) was a politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was in the Ohio House of Representatives and was the Mayor of Cincinnati from 1815-1819. William Corry was born in Virginia. His father was killed at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1781. William stayed on his mother's farm and attended local schools until age 20. In 1798, he was invited by William McMillan, a relative, to come to Cincinnati. He lived with McMillan and studied law in his office. In his later years, Corry's health was poor, and he died in 1833.

William Digges

William Henry Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane, KBE, FSA, JP, DL (1872 – 19 January 1953) was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington South for twenty-four years. Davison was born in Broughshane, County Antrim, the son of Richard Davison and his wife Annie née Patrick. He was educated at Shrewsbury and graduated from Keble College, Oxford, in 1895 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1895, he was admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister and earned his Master of Arts from Keble three years later in 1898. That same year, he married Beatrice Mary Roberts, a daughter of Sir Owen Roberts (and future great-aunt of Anthony Armstrong-Jones) and they later had four children. In 1913, he became Mayor of Kensington, where he was resident. During the Great War he was solely responsible for raising, equipping, clothing, housing and selecting the officers for the 22nd 'Kensington battalion' of the Royal Fusiliers. The new volunteer battalion was greeted with great enthusiasm, Davison enthusing their patriotism, encouraging his heroes to great efforts. He was a popular figure in the Royal Borough. In taking the rank of Major he went with them to train on the Sussex Downs. In 1917 the GOC General Barker wrote "The 22nd never lost a trench or failed their comrades in the day of battle." For which effort he was knighted in the 1918 New Year Honours when he was selected for the seat of Kensington South and elected for the Coupon on 14 December 1918. Davison was a very active Unionist member in regular attendance at debates. Although an English backbencher he had spent time in Ireland taking its historical disadvantages very seriously. In 1919 he supported the police application to the Coalition government for extra taxes, pay and pension arrangements in that troubled province. As well as the armed services, he promoted pensions for millions of servicemen and women after demobilisation. He called on the government to give more transparent explanations as to the cost of its taxation demands, and early on was one of the MPs behind a deposit system towards responsible candidate selection at election time. Davison commented widely on industrial matters while pointing out that he was neither a miner nor an owner, a truly impartial position, in his opinion: supporting "improved conditions" and a decent standard of living for miners, and a fair price for coal. Fairness extended also to bacon and butter for the Irish people in the midst of a war against Britain; and also towards the defeated Germans who should not in his opinion have lost so much in reparations. Davison believed in free trade, commodification and price reduction of items like tobacco. In one speech he linked "high prices resulting in national unrest" to the need for increased industrial production. Sir William did much for the conservation of the Royal Borough. In parliament he spoke against demolition of listed buildings by the council. During the war he was a loyal friend to Churchill, defending the PM when the Conservatives were verbally attacked in the Commons by truculent Labour left-wingers. From the very outset Davison had pressed Chamberlain to take prompt action against the British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Molsey. He stood up for the poor in war-torn London asking for workman dwelling's to be exempt for the War Damage Contribution tax. Observing in one debate that in his constituency there was a "notable lack of panic."

William Drummond (colonial governor)

William Henry Davies (1855 – 14 November 1916) was a Welsh amateur footballer who made four appearances for the Wales national football team in the 1870s and 1880s, and scored his country's first international goal.

William Davis (cricketer, born 1996)

William Dawson (diplomat)

William Duane (physicist)

Sir William Drummond Stewart, Bt

William D. Campbell

William Cuthbert Falkner

William Crawshay I

Ironmonger

William Henry DuBay was a Catholic priest and activist whose activities and suspension from the priesthood created controversy in the mid-1960s. He has since published widely on Church reform, gay rights, and plain language.

William Davis Gallagher (August 21, 1808 – June 27, 1894) was an American journalist and poet.

William Douglas of Whittinghame

William D. Catto

William Creswick

William Costello Kennedy, (August 27, 1868 – January 17, 1923) was a Canadian politician. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the riding of Essex North in the 1917 federal election as a Laurier-Liberal. He was re-elected as a Liberal in 1921. From 1921 until his death, he was the Minister of Railways and Canals in the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King.

The William Curtis House is a historic house located at 2330 Washington Street in the Newton Lower Falls village of Newton, Massachusetts.

William Denham Verschoyle

William D. Montgomery

William Douglas Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk

William Dow (March 27, 1800 – December 7, 1868) was a Scottish-born brewer and financier of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Born at Muthill, Perthshire, he was the eldest son of Dr William Dow (1765-1844), Brewmaster, and Anne Mason. Since 1652, his family had been brewing in Perthshire. Having gained an extensive experience in brewing under his father, he emigrated to Montreal, Lower Canada from Scotland in about 1818. He was employed as foreman of Thomas Dunn's brewery in Montreal and quickly became a partner. His younger brother, Andrew, who had also trained as a brewer, joined him, and on the death of Dunn, the company became known as William Dow and Company, later known as Dow Breweries. It soon was a strong competitor to Molson's, the biggest brewery in the city. Dow was also a financier and in 1860 he built his home, Strathearn House, in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.

William Cuthbert Quilter

Captain William Cornwallis Symonds (1 August 1810 – 23 November 1841) was a British Army officer who was prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand. Symonds was born in 1810. He was the eldest son of William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, who was a prominent member of the New Zealand Association. Symonds Jr. was commissioned into the 38th Foot. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1832, transferred to the 74th Foot in 1835, and was promoted Captain in 1838. He came to New Zealand in the early 1830s as an agent of the and was instrumental in the founding of Auckland and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. He was one of Governor William Hobson's closest and most effective officials and was one of the first six Police Magistrates in New Zealand. He was Chief Magistrate of Auckland and in 1841 was appointed Deputy Surveyor-General of New Zealand, and laid out Auckland under Felton Mathew. He laid out the town of Cornwallis opposite the Manukau Heads, but it never got developed. During 1841, Symonds accompanied the naturalist Dieffenbach in his survey of the North Island. On 3 May 1841, Symonds was appointed to the original Legislative Council. He died in a boating accident on 23 November 1841. His death was deeply regretted by Hobson. Symonds Street and Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland are named after him. Symonds Street in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga is named after his brother Jermyn.

William Davie Brown (29 May 1852 – 24 March 1876) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He played as a full back. He played for Glasgow Academicals, one of the top teams in Scotland at the time. He was called up to the Glasgow District side for the world's very first provincial rugby match on 23 November 1872. He went on to captain the side in the match against Edinburgh District on 5 December 1874. He was called up to the Scotland squad for the world's very first international rugby match in 1871. He represented Scotland 5 times in total.

Captain William Drummond Matheson MC was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. Sergeant Matheson was promoted to temporary 2nd lieutenant (on probation) on 12 November 1916. His citation for the Military Cross, published in the Supplement to the London Gazette, states: Temp. 2nd Lt. William Drummond Matheson, Genl. List and R.F.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in leading a formation of eight machines against 16 of the enemy. He drove down one hostile machine and eventually succeeded in landing his machine safely in spite of being attacked by several enemy machines. On other occasions he has brought down four hostile machines.

William Cotts

William Drew Washburn

William D. Coleman is a Canadian political scientist currently at University of Waterloo, having been the IGI Chair and University Distinguished Professor at McMaster University.

William Dronfield

William Dubois

William Divers

William Dickinson (c.1670 − 24 January 1724) was an English architect.

William Diard

William D. Danko

William De Havilland

William "Billy" Dowell (21 May 1885 - 9 November 1949) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union and rugby league footballer who played rugby union for Newport and Pontypool and rugby league with Warrington RLFC (Heritage № 151). He won seven caps for the Wales rugby union team and after switching to league, played one match for the Wales league squad.

William Duchman

William Dowling (disambiguation)

William Cornforth Robinson

William Cottnam Tonge

William Davie House

William Dullam Robbins (May 7, 1874 – March 25, 1952) was the 45th Mayor of Toronto from 1936 to 1937. He was appointed mayor after the death of incumbent Sam McBride and remained in office until defeated by Ralph Day in the 1937 elections. Robbins was considered a representative of labour in Toronto city politics, but was also a member of the Conservative Party. He served 18 years on city council and the Board of Control before becoming mayor. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada. He died after years of ill health at his Toronto home in 1952.

William Nicolson Cuthbert (24 August 1890 – 7 May 1960) was a Conservative Party politician in England. He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye, and when that constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, he was returned to the House of Commons for the new Arundel & Shoreham constituency. He resigned his seat on 15 January 1954, by the procedural device of accepting an appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

William D. Merrick

William Coward (1657?–1725) was an English physician, controversial writer, and poet. He is now remembered for his sceptical writings on the soul, which Parliament condemned as blasphemous and ordered to be burned in his presence.

William Stewart Cornyn (1906–1971) was a Canadian-born American linguist and author, noted for his expertise in Burmese and Russian language studies, as well as for his research on Athabaskan and Burman etymology.

William Douglas Lysnar

William Cottnam Tonge (April 29, 1764 – August 6, 1832) was a judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Hants County from 1793 to 1799 and from 1806 to 1811 and Newport township from 1799 to 1806 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of Winckworth Tonge and Martha Grace Cottnam. He was trained as an attorney and served as deputy to his father, Nova Scotia's naval officer; he succeeded his father in that post in 1792. Tonge also was named a justice of the peace and served as judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Hants County. In 1793, he married Elizabeth Bonnell. Tonge suffered financial losses and was forced to sell much of the family property. Although he was able to secure some military contracts, his attempts to improve his finances through patronage were blocked by the lieutenant governor John Wentworth. In 1799, Tonge was elected in a Halifax County seat as well as in Hants County; his election was overturned because he held no property there and Michael Wallace, a supporter of Wentworth, was declared elected. Tonge became the centre of a dispute between the lieutenant governor and the assembly over control of expenditures in the province in the legislative session that followed. In 1805, he became speaker following the resignation of Richard John Uniacke from that post. In 1806, Wentworth dismissed Tonge from his post as provincial naval officer. Tonge's attempts to have himself reinstated were unsuccessful. However, the conflicts between Wentworth and the assembly led to the lieutenant governor being replaced in 1808. Later that year, George Prevost, the new lieutenant governor, named Tonge deputy commissary general for the Invasion of Martinique (1809). He later settled in Georgetown, Guyana, where he died at the age of 68. His daughter Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge became a well-known local poet of the time.

William Corry Jr.

William "Billy" Cottrell

William Cramp and Sons Ship Building

William Dubay

William Cowper-Temple

William Crackenthorpe

William Dixon

William Count Basie

William Cornwall (1786–1860) was an Irish Methodist. Cornwall was introduced to Methodism by Gideon Ouseley and became a minister in 1814. He was noted as an excellent scholar in Irish. In 1819 he was visited by a Connemara woman who explained that Ouseley had not reached as far west as her home but that if he or Cornwall should do so a warm welcome would be assured. Despite this, the Connemara mission never thrived.

William Curtis House (Newton, Massachusetts)

William Ronald Cumming (25 January 1886 – 30 October 1951) was an Australian politician. He was born at Mount Fyans near Mortlake to grazier William Burrow Cumming and Adeline Catherine Affleck. He attended Geelong Grammar School and served with the 39th Battalion during World War I; he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. In 1914 he married Ava Irene Maidment Henty, with whom he had a son and three daughters; he would later marry Nora Lillian Crowe on 9 March 1944. On his return from the war he managed his father's property at Mount Fyans, which was sold in 1933. Cumming purchased land at Camperdown. He served on Mortlake Shire Council from 1924 to 1947, as president from 1932 to 1933. In 1935 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member fo

William Davies (New South Wales politician)

William Downie Stewart, Sr.

William Digby, 5th Baron Digby (20 February 1661 – 27 November 1752) was a British peer and Member of Parliament. Digby was a younger son of Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby, and Mary Gardiner. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 16 May 1679, and received a BA in 1681. In 1686 he succeeded his elder brother as fifth Baron Digby. This was an Irish peerage and did not entitle him to a seat in the English House of Lords. He was instead elected to the House of Commons for Warwick in 1689, a constituency he continued to represent until 1698. In September 1698, he inherited the estate of Sherborne Castle from his third cousin once removed, John Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol. Lord Digby married Lady Jane Noel (c. 1664 – 10 September 1733), daughter of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, in 1686. They had four sons and eight daughters:
* Hon. John Digby (c. 1687 – 18 March 1746) He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 10 September 1703 and received his MA on 8 May 1707. On 11 April 1715, his father petitioned the House of Lords for a private bill to disinherit John, who had become insane in 1711 while abroad and was considered incurable.
* Hon. Robert Digby (c. 1692 – 19 August 1726)
* Hon. Edward Digby (c. 1693 – 1746), married and had issue
* Hon. Wriothesley Digby (d. 12 May 1767) He matriculated at Magdalen College on 9 March 1713/4 and received a BA in 1716. He obtained a BCL from All Souls College, Oxford in 1721, was admitted a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1725, and awarded a DCL in 1726. He married Mary Cotes of Woodcote and had issue.
* Hon. Mary Digby (c. 1689 – 31 March 1729)
* Hon. Elizabeth Digby (d. 1730), married and was the mother of Sir William Dolben, 3rd Baronet, the noted campaigner against the slave trade
* Hon. Rachel Digby, died young
* Hon. Jane Digby, died young
* Hon. Juliana Digby, married Herbert Mackworth
* Hon. Catharine Digby (c. 1702 – 13 April 1745)
* Hon. Frances Digby (died 19 September 1788), married James Cotes of Woodcote
* Hon. Jane Digby (c. 1706 – 1 October 1738) In 1708, he was awarded a DCL from Oxford. He died in November 1752, aged 91, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Edward Digby, his son the Hon. Edward Digby having predeceased him.

William Digby, 5th Baron Digby

William Danvers

William Douglas Ward

William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn (1575–1630) was a Scottish politician. The son of James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn by his spouse Margaret (d. January 1610), daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurquhy by his spouse Catherine née Ruthven, Williamsucceeded his father in 1630 but enjoyed the honours for a short time, dying himself in October that year. His sisters included Lady Ann Cunningham and Margaret Cunningham (autobiographer). He had three sons and five daughters, including:

William Cowper (Dean of Sydney)

William Curtis Farabee

William DuBose (politician)

William Duane Morgan

The William D. Block Memorial Law Library serves the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Lake County, Illinois. The Law Library is named after the late , who served as a Judge for the from February 1, 1975 to June 27, 1996. The Lake County Law Library was renamed in honor of Judge Block on February 10, 1998. A strong leader on and off the bench, the judge was also known for his tireless research in the pursuit of justice. Judge Block's legacy lives on in the Law Library, which is dedicated to serving the legal and research needs of the judges, attorneys, and citizens of Lake County. It is the mission of the William D. Block Memorial Law Library to serve the public. It accomplishes this goal by providing an open and efficient system of access to the Library's collections and services for the judges, attorneys, and citizens of Lake County. The law library is available to all patrons in need of legal information. The library consists of a complete collection of primary and secondary sources for Illinois, Wisconsin, and Federal Law. Primary sources are the statutes, codes, regulations and court opinions that comprise the law. Secondary sources are books, guides, and practice manuals that explain and interpret the law.

William D. Clay Jr. is currently a special adviser to the United Nations. Clay serves as a special adviser in the Division of Nutrition and Consumer Protection for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Clay, who resides in Rome, Italy, has visited and worked in more than 90 countries throughout his career. He is a faculty member in Florida State University's College of Human Sciences, and has also taught courses on the International Politics of Hunger and Malnutrition for Florida State's interdisciplinary International Affairs program, with which he is loosely affiliated.

Advisor to theUnited Nations

William Curti Wohlforth

William DuBose (born 1786 or 1787, St. Stephen's Parish (modern Berkeley County, South Carolina); died near Pineville, South Carolina, February 24, 1855) was an American plantation owner, lawyer, and politician who served as lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838.

William C. Farabee (1865–1925), the second individual to obtain a doctorate in physical anthropology from Harvard University, engaged in a wide range of anthropological work during his time as a professor at Harvard and then as a researcher at the University Museum, Philadelphia, but is best known for his work in human genetics and his ethnographic and geographic work in South America. He was an 1894 graduate of Waynesburg College.

William Dubois (usher)

William Dowd

William Cottrell

William Davies Thomas

William Corcoran

William D. "Smitty" Smith

Actor

William D. Bond (commonly Bill Bond) (born January 2, 1931) is an inventor and mechanical engineer who retired from General Motors after spending his entire career with the car maker. He is most noted for his innovative work on intake manifolds, a three-wheeled concept car, and early electric cars in the 1960s.

William Davies (1 February 1824 – 14 August 1890) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Manchester to Thomas and Anna Maria Davies. He migrated to New South Wales around 1849, becoming a bookkeeper at Goulburn before moving to Melbourne to work for the Argus. In 1852 he mined for gold at Araluen before returning to Goulburn in the later 1850s. On 11 May 1852 he married Maria Cooper at Surry Hills; they had four children. He managed a variety of stores throughout the region and was an alderman at Goulburn from 1859 to 1887, serving four times as mayor. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Argyle, but he did not re-contest in 1880. He went further into business in the 1880s, becoming involved in mining and railway companies before becomin

William Davies (footballer)

William Cordeiro Melo

Reverend William Douglass (1804–1862) was an abolitionist and church community leader. He preached for peace, racial equality, and education in the religious community.

William Driver (football coach)

William Dudgeon

William Dowdeswell (disambiguation)

William Corson (December 23, 1909 – January 28, 1981) was an American film actor.

William Cosgrave

William Cowan (28 November 1900 – 1979) was an English footballer who played as a centre forward.

William Davies (footballer, born 1855)

William Dale Berry is the Syde P. Deeb Eminent Scholar in Political Science and Marian D. Irish Professor of Political Science at Florida State University. His research analyzes the impact of electoral competition on the policy choices made by state legislators, and the effect of state welfare policy on poverty in the United States. Berry’s research on methodology focuses on the development of techniques for estimating econometric models with binary dependent variables, and methods for studying policy diffusion using geographical information systems.

Wiliam Dawson Jr. (August 11, 1885 – July 3, 1972) was a career United States diplomat. He was U.S. ambassador to multiple countries, including being the first ambassador to the Organization of American States. He was born at Saint Paul, Minnesota, on 11 August 1885, the son of William Dawson and Maria Rice. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1906, he attended the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and soon after entered the United States Foreign Service.

William D'Avenant

William Dickinson (architect)

William Crawshay (1764 – 11 August 1834) was a South Wales industrialist. The son of Richard Crawshay, he took over the Cyfarthfa Ironworks from his father, but it was never his primary concern, and he continued to live in London, where he took charge of the company's selling agency. He already had trading interests in India and had only taken a role in the business because of the death of his elder brother. After his father's death in 1810, he left the running of the works mostly in the hands of his own son, William Crawshay II, and died at Stoke Newington aged 70, leaving a fortune of £700,000. William Crawshay the elder was the brother-in-law of the ironmaster Benjamin Hall, who married his sister Charlotte.

Sir William Courtenay (c. 1529 – 29 September 1557) was a landowner in Devon. He was the son of George Courtenay (died 1533), who predeceased his own father, by his wife Catherine St Ledger, daughter of Sir George St Ledger of Annery. He succeeded his grandfather Sir William Courtenay, of Powderham in 1535. He was knighted in 1553 and elected to Parliament for Plympton in 1555. In 1831, a decision of the House of Lords determined that he had succeeded his sixth cousin once removed (Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon) as de jure 2nd Earl of Devon in 1556.

William Cornwallis (died 1614)

William Drummond (footballer)

Sir William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts, 1st Baronet, KBE (15 July 1871 – 20 January 1932) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician.

William Jensen "Billy" Cottrell (born 1980) is a former Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Technology who was convicted in April 2005 of conspiracy associated with the destruction of eight sport utility vehicles and a Hummer dealership in the name of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). He was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on conspiracy charges and ordered to pay $3.5 million in restitution. His lawyers, however, have appealed the verdict and sentence.He was released August 16, 2011.

William Dowell

William Duborgh Jensen

William D'Alton Mann

William Coyle

William Dias Massari

William Drummond (born ca.1617, died 1677) was the first colonial governor of Albemarle Sound settlement in the Province of Carolina and a participant in Bacon's Rebellion.

William Curlett

William Corry (Cincinnati mayor)

William Henry Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane, KBE, FSA, JP, DL (1872 – 19 January 1953) was a British peer and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Kensington South for twenty-four years. Davison was born in Broughshane, County Antrim, the son of Richard Davison and his wife Annie née Patrick. He was educated at Shrewsbury and graduated from Keble College, Oxford, in 1895 with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1895, he was admitted to the Inner Temple as a barrister and earned his Master of Arts from Keble three years later in 1898. That same year, he married Beatrice Mary Roberts, a daughter of Sir Owen Roberts (and future great-aunt of Anthony Armstrong-Jones) and they later had four children.

William Cowper, 1st Baron Cowper

William De Leftwich Dodge

William Cowper (dean of Sydney)

William D. B. Ainey

William D. Block Memorial Law Library

William Dow

William R. Dubois (1879-1953) was an American architect. He was a prolific architect in Wyoming and nearby states. William Robert Dubois designed more than 70 commercial buildings in Cheyenne, including almost all that were built in Cheyenne during 1900 to 1920. He designed more than 100 houses, 27 schools, six churches, and four Carnegie libraries. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 15, 1879. He trained at the Chicago School of Architecture and worked for architectural firms in Chicago and in Albuquerque before moving to Cheyenne in 1901. He arrived as the supervising architect for a Carnegie Library. He died May 31, 1953. A number of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works include (attribution):
* Carnegie Library (1901), in Cheyenne
* Carnegie public libraries in Basin, in Green River, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and in Eaton, Colorado
* Atlas Theatre (built 1887), 213 W. 16th St., Cheyenne, Wyoming (Dubois,William), NRHP-listed
* Charles L. Beatty House (1916), 2320 Capitol Ave., Cheyenne (Dubois,William Robert), NRHP-listed
* Cheyenne High School, 2810 House Ave., Cheyenne (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* Churchill Public School, 510 W. 29th St., Cheyenne (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* City and County Building, 19th St. and Carey Ave., Cheyenne (Dubois,William), NRHP-listed
* , 600 W. 22nd St., Cheyenne (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* Federal Office Building-Cheyenne, 308 W. 21st St., Cheyenne (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* William Goodale House, 214 S. Fourteenth St., Laramie, Wyoming (Dubois,William), NRHP-listed
* Johnson Public School, 711 Warren Ave., Cheyenne (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* Lincoln School, 209 S. Cedar St., Laramie (Dubois, William R.), NRHP-listed
* Lulu McCormick Junior High School, 2001 Capitol Ave., Cheyenne (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* Morton Mansion, 425 Center St., Douglas, Wyoming (Dubois, William L.), NRHP-listed
* Rialto Theater, 102 E. Second St., Casper, Wyoming (Dubois & Goodrich), NRHP-listed
* Wyoming Fuel Company, 720 W. 18th St., Cheyenne, (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* Wyoming State Insane Asylum, 831 WY 150 S, Evanston, Wyoming (Dubois, William), NRHP-listed
* Six works in the Dubois Block, Cheyenne, Wyoming, NRHP-listed
* One or more works in Downtown Cheyenne Historic District, Roughly bounded by 15th and 16th Sts., Central and Pioneer Aves. Cheyenne (Dubois,William), NRHP-listed
* One or more works in Downtown Cheyenne Historic District (Boundary Increase I), Roughly bounded by 17th and 18th Sts., Pioneer and Carey Aves., also along Central Ave. and 17th St. Cheyenne (Dubois,William), NRHP-listed
* One or more works in Downtown Cheyenne Historic District (Boundary Increase II), Roughly bounded by Nineteenth St., Capital Ave., Seventeenth St., and Carey Ave. Cheyenne (Dubois,William), NRHP-listed
* One or more works in Moore Haven Heights Historic District, Between Bent Ave. on the W., E. side of Central Ave. on the E., W. 8th Ave. on the N., W. Pershing Blvd on the S. Cheyenne (Dubois, William H.), NRHP-listed A more complete listing of his works is included in the NRHP application for the Dubois Block.

William Cosmo Monkhouse (18 March 1840 – 20 July 1901) was a British poet and critic.

William D. Coleman (Pastor)

William Costello Kennedy

William "Bill" Culican (21 August 1928 – 24 March 1984) was an Australian archaeologist and lecturer in biblical archaeology and pre-classical antiquity at the University of Melbourne.

William Coulthard

The William Cullen Bryant Homestead is the boyhood home and later summer residence of William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), one of America's foremost poets and newspaper editors. The 155-acre (63 ha) estate is located at 205 Bryant Road in Cummington, Massachusetts, currently operated by the non-profit Trustees of Reservations, and open to the public on weekends in summer and early fall. An admission fee is charged.

William Cummins (1874 – 27 July 1943) was an Irish Labour Party politician. A national school teacher by profession, he was first elected to the Free State Seanad at a by-election on 21 February 1923 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Eamonn Mansfield. He was re-elected for a 12-year term at the 1925 Seanad election and served until the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936. He was elected to the 3rd Seanad Éireann in 1938 by the Labour Panel.

William Courtenay (died 1557)

William Dingsdale

William Coryton (1580–1651) of West Newton Ferrers, St Mellion, Cornwall, was a Cornish gentleman who served as MP for Cornwall in 1624, 1626 and 1628, for Liskeard in 1625, for Grampound in 1640 and for Launceston 1640-41. He was expelled from Parliament for falsifying returns.

William Davis Daly

William Cumming (politician)

William DeKooning

William Drummond Matheson

William Dayton Boies (January 3, 1857 – May 31, 1932) was a lawyer, trial-court judge, and five-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 11th congressional district in northwestern Iowa. Born on a farm in Boone County, Illinois, Boies attended country schools and the public schools of Belvidere, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1873 and settled near the town of Quasqueton. He was graduated in law from the University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa City in 1880. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Sanborn, in O'Brien County, Iowa.He moved to nearby Sheldon, Iowa, in 1887, where he continued the practice of law. Boies was an unsuccessful candidate for election as judge of the district court in 1890. He served as member of the school board of the independent school district of Sheldon from 1900 to 1912. He was appointed judge of the district court of the fourth judicial district of Iowa on January 1, 1913.On a division of this district, he became judge of the twenty-first judicial district, and in 1914 was elected for a term of four years. On March 31, 1918, Boies resigned as judge to become a candidate for the Republican nomination to represent Iowa's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House. The incumbent, George Cromwell Scott, had chosen not to seek re-election. Boies won the Republican nomination (defeating two opponents), and then the seat (defeating former Congressman Thomas J. Steele), becoming a member of the Sixty-sixth Congress. Boies was re-elected to Congress four times, and never defeated. He was one of the managers appointed by the House in 1926 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against George W. English, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1928. In all, he served from March 4, 1919 to March 3, 1929.He died in Sheldon, Iowa on May 31, 1932. He was interred in Eastlawn Cemetery.

William Davis Gallagher

William Davies (footballer born 1884)

William Cozzens

William DuBois (architect)

William Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay

William Davison (c. 1541 – 21 December 1608) was secretary to Queen Elizabeth I. He played a key and diplomatic role in the 1587 execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was made the scapegoat for this event in British history. As a Secretary of some influence, he was active in forging alliances with England's Protestant friends in Holland and Scotland to prevent war with France.

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Sir William Drummond Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 December 1795 – 28 April 1871) was a Scottish adventurer and British military officer. He travelled extensively in the American West for nearly seven years in the 1830s. In 1837 he took along the American artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, hiring him to do sketches of the trip. Many of his completed oil paintings of American Indian life and the Rocky Mountains originally hung in Murthly Castle, though they have now been dispersed to a number of private and public collections. After his older brother John Stewart died childless in 1838, William inherited the baronetcy and returned to Scotland. In 1842 he returned to America, and in the summer of 1843 hosted a private rendezvous-style party at a remote lake in the Rockies (now called Fremont Lake). On that trip Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was hired to care for the mules. The so-called "pleasure trip" ended in a dispute that split the party and caused Stewart to return to Scotland earlier than he had planned. Stewart has recently been portrayed for adding a homosexual dimension to the frontier.

William Curry Holden

William Cornwall (1786–1860) was an Irish Methodist. Cornwall was introduced to Methodism by Gideon Ouseley and became a minister in 1814. He was noted as an excellent scholar in Irish. In 1819 he was visited by a Connemara woman who explained that Ouseley had not reached as far west as her home but that if he or Cornwall should do so a warm welcome would be assured. Despite this, the Connemara mission never thrived. He was stationed at various places around County Galway such as Lawrencetown and Tuam. He retired in 1849 and settled in Galway the following year. He died in 1860, survived by his wife, Anna Maria, who died in 1910, aged 89. Both of them were buried in the Methodist plot at the back of the chapel in Victoria Place, Galway.

William Duval (disambiguation)

William Macquarie Cowper (known in his youth as Macquarie; 3 July 1810 – 14 June 1902) was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. Cowper was born in Sydney, the son of the Revd William Cowper, assistant colonial chaplain, and his second wife, Ann (née Barrell) . Educated by his father and at the University of Oxford, he graduated BA from Magdalen Hall in 1833 and MA in 1835. Following admission to deacon´s order, he was appointed curate of St Petrox, Dartmouth, and ordained priest at Exeter in 1834. He returned to Australia in 1836 and was made chaplain at Port Stephens, New South Wales where he remained for 20 years. He then became Acting Principal of Moore Theological College, Sydney, for a few months after the college opened at Liverpool on 1 March 1856, following which he became incumbent of St. John´s, Bishopthorpe. In 1858 Cowper succeeded his father at St Philip's Church, Sydney. Later the same year he was appointed Archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. In 1869 he left St Philip¨s for the cathedral parish, which he occupied until his death. He several times acted as commissary for bishops Frederic Barker and Alfred Barry during their absences in England. In 1896 he was chosen Fellow of the Australian College of Theology. He was admired for his piety and kindliness. He published Episcopate of the Right Reverend Frederic Barker, D.D. in 1888 and his autobiography, The Autobiography and Reminiscences of William Macquarie Cowper, was published soon after his death. Cowper died, aged 91, at the Deanery in Sydney on 14 June 1902, and was buried at St Jude's cemetery, Randwick. He was married twice and was survived by his children.

William Dayton Perritt

William D. Berry (political scientist)

William Corbeil

William Drummond

William Davis Ticknor, Sr.

William Cox (Tasmania)

The William D. Block Memorial Law Library serves the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Lake County, Illinois. The Law Library is named after the late , who served as a Judge for the from February 1, 1975 to June 27, 1996. The Lake County Law Library was renamed in honor of Judge Block on February 10, 1998. A strong leader on and off the bench, the judge was also known for his tireless research in the pursuit of justice. Judge Block's legacy lives on in the Law Library, which is dedicated to serving the legal and research needs of the judges, attorneys, and citizens of Lake County.

The William D. Alexander House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is asserted to be the only period example of Stick Style architecture in the state of Utah.

William Cumming Rose (April 4, 1887 – September 25, 1985) was an American biochemist and nutritionist. He discovered the amino acid threonine and his research determined the requirement for essential amino acids in diet.

William Cosmo Monkhouse

William Doane

William D. Bond

William D. McCrackan

William D. Boies

William D. (Bill) Murray

William Cyril Mayne

William Cornwall

William Cumming Rose

William Cusick

William Corbin (author)

William Dias Massari (born July 25, 1990 in Santa Catarina, Brazil) is a professional Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Cafetaleros de Tapachula

William David Robert McConnell

William Cowper (archdeacon of Sydney)

William Cowper (Archdeacon)

William D.G. Hunt

William Courtenay, 8th Earl de jure of Devon (30 October 1742 – 14 October 1788) was the eldest son of William Courtenay 7th de jure Earl of Devon, and Lady Frances Finch. He succeeded to the title of 4th Baronet Courtenay, 2nd Viscount Courtenay of Powderham Castle and 8th Earl of Devon (Created c.1553) on 16 May 1762 upon the death of his father.

William D. Robbins

William Cummins (politician)

Sir William Drummond Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 December 1795 – 28 April 1871) was a Scottish adventurer and British military officer. He travelled extensively in the American West for nearly seven years in the 1830s. In 1837 he took along the American artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, hiring him to do sketches of the trip. Many of his completed oil paintings of American Indian life and the Rocky Mountains originally hung in Murthly Castle, though they have now been dispersed to a number of private and public collections.

William Ronald Cumming (25 January 1886 – 30 October 1951) was an Australian politician. He was born at Mount Fyans near Mortlake to grazier William Burrow Cumming and Adeline Catherine Affleck. He attended Geelong Grammar School and served with the 39th Battalion during World War I; he was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. In 1914 he married Ava Irene Maidment Henty, with whom he had a son and three daughters; he would later marry Nora Lillian Crowe on 9 March 1944. On his return from the war he managed his father's property at Mount Fyans, which was sold in 1933. Cumming purchased land at Camperdown. He served on Mortlake Shire Council from 1924 to 1947, as president from 1932 to 1933. In 1935 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member for Hampden. A supporter of Ian Macfarlan, he was Minister of Agriculture in the stop-gap Macfarlan Ministry of 1945, but was defeated at the subsequent election. In 1949 he moved to Peterborough, where he died in 1951.

William Davies (rugby league 1914)

William D. Alexander House

William Danvers SL JP (1428 – 19 April 1504) was a British judge. He was the son of John Danvers and his second wife Joan, and half-brother of Robert Danvers, another notable judge. He became a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire in 1456, and served again for Berkshire in 1463. He represented Taunton in Parliament in 1467 and 1472, and with him in that Parliament was his brother Thomas, who sat for Downton. William was also member for Hindon in 1478. He became a Serjeant-at-Law in 1485 and was made a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas on 5 February 1488. On the death of his brother Thomas, William Danvers inherited the manors of Adderbury, Colthorpe, and the family property in Banbury, Bourton, Cropredy, Milton, and elsewhere. He died on 19 April 1504; prior to this, he had lived at Chamberhouse Castle in Thatcham, and as a result was buried in St Mary's Church. He had married Anne Pury in 1470 and they were the grandparents of Edmund Docwra MP.

William Douglas Weir, 1st Baron Weir

William D. Campbell (Scouting)

William Dronfield (April 1826 – 24 August 1894) was a British trade unionist. Born in Sheffield, Dronfield became a compositor. In 1849, he was a founder member of the Provincial Typographical Association, and from 1852 to 1855 served as its President. In 1858, many Sheffield compositors were involved in a dispute with the owner of the newspaper. In order to build solidarity for their cause, they founded the Sheffield Association of Organised Trades. Dronfield was elected as its first secretary, a post he held until 1867. Through this organisation, Dronfield became active in many national campaigns; in particular, against the Master and Servant Act, against which he helped organise a national conference in 1864. In 1865, Dronfield presented a paper on trade unions at the conference of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, a bourgeois organisation which aimed to include industrial relations in its remit. However, details of his speech and the debate sparked by it were omitted from the official report. A second intervention, calling for state aid for education, was included. Disappointment at the body's indifference to labour matters convinced him of the need for a national trade union organisation. He called a conference in Sheffield in 1866 which organised the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades, and he was elected as its secretary. Dronfield was appointed as the honorary secretary of the , founded in the aftermath of the Sheffield Outrages, and so gave evidence in support of the legalisation of trade union activity. Dronfield convinced two members of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council, William Henry Wood and Samuel Caldwell Nicholson, of the need for a national organisation, and this inspired them to call a meeting in Manchester in 1868. Dronfield attended this as a representative of the Sheffield Association of Organised Trades, and played a prominent role in the proceedings. The meeting resolved to found the Trades Union Congress. Dronfield supported the Reform League, and in order to further labour interests, he convinced Anthony John Mundella to stand as the Liberal Party candidate for Sheffield in the 1868 general election. Mundella took a seat. Also in 1868, Dronfield became the secretary of the newly formed National Education League. He represented Sheffield at the in 1870, and later became a , calling for improvements to Sheffield's sanitation systems. Dronfield died in 1894 and is buried in Sheffield General Cemetery.

William DeWeese

William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn (1575–1630) was a Scottish politician. The son of James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn by his spouse Margaret (d. January 1610), daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenurquhy by his spouse Catherine née Ruthven, Williamsucceeded his father in 1630 but enjoyed the honours for a short time, dying himself in October that year. His sisters included Lady Ann Cunningham and Margaret Cunningham (autobiographer). He had three sons and five daughters, including:
* William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn
* Colonel Robert Cunningham, was Usher to King Charles II.

William David Lindsay Ride AM (8 May 1926 – 6 November 2011), usually credited as W. D. L. Ride, was an Australian vertebrate zoologist and paleontologist who was the chair of the committee that authored updated editions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

William Drummond (poet)

William Thomas George Divers (1 September 1896 – 29 June 1978) was an Australian politician. He was born in Collingwood to brushmaker William Clinton Divers and Annie May Cozens. He attended the local state school and was a child actor until 1910. From 1910 to 1914 he was in the merchant navy; he served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1914 to 1918 during World War I and then returned to the merchant navy until 1920. In 1924 he married Ethelwynne Bowen, with whom he had two children; a later marriage on 5 November 1955 was to Lorna Jean Peters, née Forbes. He was an organiser with the Municipal Employees Union in 1925 and an industrial officer from 1928 to 1946, when he became state general secretary. A Labor Party member, he served on Essendon City Council from 1932 to 1946 and was mayor from 1936 to 1937. During World War II he served with the Royal Australian Air Force. Federal vice-president (1948–53) and president (1953–58) of the Municipal Employees' Union, he also served on state and federal Labor executives. In 1958 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Footscray. He served until his retirement in 1970. Divers died in Footscray in 1978.

William Cummins (Irish politician)

William Davis, photographer

William D. Bloxham

William Cottnam Tonge (April 29, 1764 – August 6, 1832) was a judge and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Hants County from 1793 to 1799 and from 1806 to 1811 and Newport township from 1799 to 1806 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. His daughter Grizelda Elizabeth Cottnam Tonge became a well-known local poet of the time.

William Dunnington Bloxham

William Downes (disambiguation)

William Coyle (disambiguation)

William Dunnington Bloxham (July 9, 1835 – March 15, 1911) was the 13th and 17th Governor of Florida in two non-consecutive terms. Prior to his first term as governor, he served in the Florida House of Representatives. In between his terms as governor, he served as state Comptroller when Francis P. Fleming was Governor. Bloxham was only the second governor of Florida to be born in the state.

William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane

William Douglas Street, Jr.

William Cuthbert

William Cowper (clergy)

William Cuthbertson

William D. Coleman (scientist)

William Dowlan

William DeLancey

William Cotter

William Dawes (disambiguation)

William D. Clay Jr.

William Copley

William Curtis House

William Digby Seymour (1805–1872)

Captain William Cornwallis Symonds (1 August 1810 – 23 November 1841) was a British Army officer who was prominent in the early colonisation of New Zealand. Symonds was born in 1810. He was the eldest son of William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, who was a prominent member of the New Zealand Association. Symonds Jr. was commissioned into the 38th Foot. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1832, transferred to the 74th Foot in 1835, and was promoted Captain in 1838.

William Dayton Boies (January 3, 1857 – May 31, 1932) was a lawyer, trial-court judge, and five-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 11th congressional district in northwestern Iowa. Born on a farm in Boone County, Illinois, Boies attended country schools and the public schools of Belvidere, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Buchanan County, Iowa, in 1873 and settled near the town of Quasqueton. He was graduated in law from the University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa City in 1880. He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and commenced practice in Sanborn, in O'Brien County, Iowa.He moved to nearby Sheldon, Iowa, in 1887, where he continued the practice of law.

William Court Gully, 1st Viscount Selby

William Drummond Stewart

William Dawes (pioneer)

William Davison (diplomat)

Poetandart critic

William Douglass (abolitionist)

William D. Peck

William Douglass

William Corry, Jr.

William "Billy" Dowell

William Drummond of Hawthornden

William Douglass (physician)

Sir William Courtenay (c. 1529 – 29 September 1557) was a landowner in Devon. He was the son of George Courtenay (died 1533), who predeceased his own father, by his wife Catherine St Ledger, daughter of Sir George St Ledger of Annery. He succeeded his grandfather Sir William Courtenay, of Powderham in 1535. He was knighted in 1553 and elected to Parliament for Plympton in 1555. On 28 Nov 1545, he married Elizabeth Paulet (c. 1536 – 4 Nov. 1576), daughter to John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, by whom he had two children: Jane, born 1551, and his heir, William (1553 – 24 June 1630). He took part in the battle of St. Quentin in August 1557 in Picardy, France, and died on 29 September 1557. In 1831, a decision of the House of Lords determined that he had succeeded his sixth cousin once removed (Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon) as de jure 2nd Earl of Devon in 1556.

William Digby, 5th Baron Digby (20 February 1661 – 27 November 1752) was a British peer and Member of Parliament. Digby was a younger son of Kildare Digby, 2nd Baron Digby, and Mary Gardiner. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 16 May 1679, and received a BA in 1681. Lord Digby married Lady Jane Noel (c. 1664 – 10 September 1733), daughter of Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough, in 1686. They had four sons and eight daughters: In 1708, he was awarded a DCL from Oxford.

William Douglas of Cavers

Physical Anthropologist

William Coward