William Blassingame (born January 13, 1836 in Greenville, South Carolina) was a politician serving in the Texas legislature and as a delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875. He was born to William Blassingame and Mary Earl Prince. He is not to be confused with a William Blassingame in the 1830s who was a sheriff in Alabama and South Carolina. At age 25, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army in 1861 and was an assistant surgeon in General Benjamin McCulloch's Missouri campaign. After the war, he moved to Texas from Versailles, Missouri and where he settled in Whitesboro, Texas with his wife, where he started his medical practice and occasionally farmed. In February 1876, he ran for Senate as a Democrat against the Republican Dr. Alexander Marshall, who had previously served a term in the Sixteenth Legislature, and Blassingame won by 1,000 votes more. In 1876, he also started as a member of the Fifteenth Legislature, covering Grayson County and Cooke County. He was also one of five medical doctors part of the Texas Senate when he was elected as a senator to the Sixteenth Texas Legislature in 1879 as a Grange delegate and previously had served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1875 as well as being a signer of the resulting constitution. At both the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Legislature, he represented the 11th district both times.He is buried in the Blassingame family cemetery in Sandusky, Texas near Frisco and no additional details are known about him.

William Benjamin Kean

William B. Ross

William Barnett House

William Bell Dinsmoor Jr.

Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

William Billington

The Very Rev William Hagger Barlow DD (1833–1908) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1901 until his death in 1908.William Hagger Barlow was born in 1833, son of Henry Hagger, Vicar of Pitsmoor, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1858, he began his career with a curacy at St James Bristol before being appointed Vicar of St Bartholomew Montpelier. After serving as Vicar of St. Ebbe's, Oxford, from 1875 he was Principal of the Church Missionary Society College, Islington and was later Vicar of St Mary’s Islington. He was elevated to the Deanery in June 1901, and installed in Peterborough Cathedral 5 October 1901, preaching there for the first time the following morning

Sir William Bowyer-Smijth, 11th Baronet, DL, JP (22 April 1814 – 20 November 1883) was an English cricketer, baronet and Conservative Party politician.

William Bell (theologian)

William Bewley (1726–83) was an English physician.

William Beckett (engineer)

William Barlow (Archdeacon of Salisbury)

William Bell Dinsmoor Sr. (July 29, 1886 – July 2, 1973) was an American architectural historian of classical Greece and a Columbia University professor of art and archaeology.

William Bagot (politician)

William Banach (1903–1951) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

William Jack Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock (born 19 May 1984) (Graf Bentinck ) is a London-based social entrepreneur and speaker. He was a Vodafone Foundation World of Difference winner in 2011 and co-founded social enterprises Ragged University and Levantine Links.

William Barrow (Jesuit)

William Bickford (disambiguation)

Inventor

The William Ayers House is a historic house located at 820 North 12th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
William Ayers House

William Barlow (Oregon pioneer)

William Bowyer-Smijth

William Bullick Black KC (22 September 1879 – 11 March 1967) was a barrister and judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland.

William Betts (disambiguation)

William B. Ellern

William Bothe

William Bridgeman FRS (c.1646 – 10 May 1699) was a senior English civil servant and MP.He was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Richard Bridgeman, a merchant for the East India Company and was the cousin of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1662. He became a naturalised British subject in 1657 and lived at Combes Hall, near Stowmarket, Suffolk.He became a civil servant and occupied a number of important posts, viz. Under-Secretary of State (1667-1681, 1683-1689, 1690-1692, 163-1694); Commissioner for Assessment for Westminster (1679-1680), 1689-1690); Clerk of the Privy Council (1685-1689, 1693-death); Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Commission (1687-1688); Member of the Royal Fisheries, Ireland (1692); Secretary to the Admiralty (1694-1698). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679.He was also returned as MP for Bramber, Sussex for 1685 to 1687 and served as Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex from 1692 to his death in 1699.He had married Diana, daughter of Peter Vernatt.

William Briggs Homestead

William Lawrence Baillieu (22 April 1859 – 6 February 1936) was an Australian financier and politician. He was a successful businessman, having developed significant business interests from his relatively humble beginnings. He associated with many of the most influential people of his era, and served in the Victorian Legislative Council for 21 years, including stints as Minister for Works and Health and leader of the Legislative Council. As such, he began the Baillieu family dynasty, several members of which remain prominent figures in public life today.

William Bedford Royall (April 15, 1825 – December 13, 1895) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and later a United States Army brigadier general. Born in Virginia, he led a group of mounted volunteers from Missouri during the Mexican War. He became a first lieutenant of the United States Cavalry on March 3, 1855 and a captain on March 21, 1861. Despite his southern birth and his uncle Sterling Price's decision to join the Confederacy, Royall remained loyal to the Union and served in the Army of the Potomac. After the civil war, he served in Kansas under General George Crook. He retired on October 19, 1887 and died in Washington, D.C..

Sir William Charles Ellis (10 March 1780 – 24 October 1839) was the superintendent of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum.

William B. Hornblower

William Blyth Gerish (1864–1921) was an English antiquarian, biographer and folklorist from Hertfordshire.

William Baillie (12 November 1838 – 17 March 1895) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire. He was born in Duntisbourne Abbots and died in Paddington.Baillie made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1870 season, against Marylebone Cricket Club. From the lower-middle order, he scored 7 runs in the only innings in which he batted, as Gloucestershire won the match by an innings margin.

William Bliss

William Bennet (4 March 1746 – 16 July 1820) (spelled William Bennett on his memorial in Cloyne Cathedral) was Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, and an antiquary.He was born in the Tower of London and educated at Harrow School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was senior tutor for many years. One of his pupils was John Fane, who appointed Bennet as his chaplain on taking up the post of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1790. Bennet then became Bishop of Cork and Ross until 1794 when he became Bishop of Cloyne.He died in Montagu Square, London, and "His exertions while preaching a charity sermon at St Michael, Cornhill, exacerbated by a recent attack of gout, are supposed to have hastened his death." He was buried in Plumstead, at that time in Kent.He was a scholar and antiquary, elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1790. He was particularly interested in tracing the Roman roads of Britain, and Bishop Bennet Way is a horse-riding, walking and cycling route in Cheshire, England, named in honour of his surveys of the Roman roads of the area.

William Ingham Brooke Bennett, is a British flute player, born on 7 February 1936 in London to parents who were both architects.

William Bensinger

William Bridges Adams (1797 – 23 July 1872) was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport.

William Badecumbe

William Brassington

William Banks (born January 1893) was an English footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool in The Football League. Banks started his career at Hartford Burdon in the Bluthe and District League before he was signed by professional team Ashington. He then moved to Tranmere Rovers F.C. and then on to Liverpool. He made his debut towards the end of the 1913–14 season featuring in nine of the last eleven games of the season. He made a further seventeen appearances before the advent of the First World War, which interrupted his career. Following the end of the war he signed for Tranmere again. He later moved to Fulham F.C. where he played 43 matches between 1919 and 1921, scoring 12 goals.

William Bedford Royall (April 15, 1825 – December 13, 1895) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War and later a United States Army brigadier general. Born in Virginia, he led a group of mounted volunteers from Missouri during the Mexican War. He became a first lieutenant of the United States Cavalry on March 3, 1855 and a captain on March 21, 1861.

William Banks (born January 1893) was an English footballer who played as a defender for Liverpool in The Football League. Banks started his career at Hartford Burdon in the Bluthe and District League before he was signed by professional team Ashington. He then moved to Tranmere Rovers F.C. and then on to Liverpool. He made his debut towards the end of the 1913–14 season featuring in nine of the last eleven games of the season.

William Best (disambiguation)

William Benson Storey

William Samuel Best, 2nd Baron Wynford (19 February 1798 – 28 February 1869), was a British peer.

William Beckner (born September 15, 1941) is an American mathematician, known for his work in harmonic analysis, especially geometric inequalities. He is the Paul V. Montgomery Centennial Memorial Professor in Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin.

William Banach

William Barron Calhoun

William B. Harvard, Sr.

William B. Ellern (born November 30, 1933) is an American science fiction author. Ellern has worked as an engineer, including for JPL, Raytheon, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft and Northrop Corporation.He was born in Portland, Oregon to May Eileen Ellern and William C. Ellern.In July 1965 he asked for, and received, permission from E. E. Smith to extend the Lensman series of novels.

William Charles Denis Browne

William Aylesbury (1615 – 24 August 1656), was an English translator from the Italian.Aylesbury, although a supporter of Charles I, obtained an office under the Commonwealth, was the son of Sir Thomas Aylesbury; in 1628 he became a gentleman commoner at Christ Church, Oxford, and took his bachelor's degree in 1631, at the early age of sixteen (Wood, Fasti Oxon. i. 460). His sister Frances married Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Clarendon.

William B. Trower Bayshore Natural Area Preserve is a Natural Area Preserve located in Northampton County, Virginia. A small preserve with no public facilities, it is located on the Chesapeake Bay, and contains beach strand and dune communities. It supports a population of the northeastern beach tiger beetle, as well as some scrubland and woodland areas.The preserve was named in honor of William Bell Trower, a Northampton County physician and farmer.

William Barton (writer)

Executioner

William Bell Jr.

William B. Sappington House, also known as Prairie Park, is a historic home located near Arrow Rock, Saline County, Missouri. It was built in 1843, and is a 2 1/2-story, square, Greek Revival style brick dwelling on a limestone foundation. It measures 60 feet wide. The front facade features a two-story front portico with Doric order and Ionic order columns. Its roof is topped by a roof deck and cupola.

William Bennet (or Bennett) was an English civil engineer, noted for his work on canals. Nothing is known of his early life or family history, but details of his work from about 1790 until 1826 are documented. His major projects were for the Dorset and Somerset Canal and the Somersetshire Coal Canal.

William Bawdwen

William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman of Shobdon (24 June 1780 – 22 July 1845) was a Member of Parliament and later a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.At birth his name was William Hanbury, although he was a distant descendant of Sir James Bateman who had been Lord Mayor of London, was his 2nd Great-Grandfather. Hanbury studied at Eton College and then Christ Church, Oxford graduating from the later in 1798.He served as a Whig MP from Northampton from 1810-1818.

William Bell Dinsmoor Jr. (July 2, 1923 – July 7, 1988) was an American classical archaeologist and architectural historian.

William Brockenbrough Taylor (born 1947) is an American diplomat and a former United States ambassador to Ukraine.

William B. Shepard

William Babington Maxwell

William Roy Clifford Bagnall (10 April 1882 – 28 May 1950) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician.He was born at Turua to sawmill owner Albert Edward Bagnall and Emma, née Brent. He moved to Sydney in 1903, where he immediately became involved in the union movement, being the first secretary and a foundation delegate of the Labor Council of New South Wales, representing the Process Engravers' Union (Printing Trades Federation Council from 1909).

William Berndt

William Betham (1749–1839)

William B. Napton

For other persons named William or Bill Richardson see William Richardson (disambiguation).William Burdette Richardson (November 10, 1874 – September 19, 1945) was a Republican Party Minnesota politician who served as Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota and in the Minnesota Senate.

William Biles

William Bigler (January 1, 1814 – August 9, 1880) was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 12th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1852 to 1855, and later a U.S. Senator for Pennsylvania from 1856 until 1861.

William Beecher

Blessed William Barrow (alias Waring, alias Harcourt) (1609 – 30 June 1679) was an English Jesuit, executed as a result of the Popish Plot, a fabricated Catholic conspiracy to kill the King. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. By a papal decree of 4 December 1886, this martyr's cause was introduced, but under the name of "William Harcourt". This is the official name of beatification.

William Bateman
Bishop of Norwich

William Barnett House is a historic home located at Alleghany Springs, Montgomery County, Virginia. It is a long two-story, log and frame structure consisting of a number of elements of different dates. The earliest section may date to 1813, and is the central log section with a two-story frame or log addition and adjacent room and a frame two-room section added in the mid-19th century. It has a rear wing and is topped by a standing seam metal gable roof.

William Bauld

William Bridges Adams

William Bludworth

William Bland (politician)

William B. Gragg

William B. Dawes

William Brantley Aycock

William Baker

William Blanchard

William Renald Barton III (born September 28, 1950) is an American science fiction writer. In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera.Barton also has written short stories that put an emphasis on sexuality and human morality in otherwise traditional science fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and Sci Fiction, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Sidewise Award, and the HOMer Award, and three of his novels (The Transmigration of Souls, Acts of Conscience, and When We Were Real) were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award with Acts of Conscience winning a special citation in 1998.Barton has recently begun to self-publish his fiction for the Kindle.

William B. Sherman Farm

William Bougereau

William Berrian Vail, (December 19, 1823 – April 10, 1904) was a Canadian businessman and politician.Vail was born in Sussex Vale, New Brunswick, the son of John Cougle Vail and Charlotte Hannah Arnold. In 1850, he married Charlotte Leslie Jones. He represented Digby County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1867 to 1874. He served in the province's Executive Council as provincial secretary.

William Bingham Baring Ashburton

William Blackburn (1750~1790) was the leading prison architect of the Georgian Era. Following the principles of John Howard, his designs aimed to provide inmates with dray and airy cells.Blackburn was born in Southwark, London the son of a tradesman and his wife, who may have been Spanish. He was apprenticed to a surveyor, but "derived very little advantage" from his master. When only nineteen he competed for the design of the Royal Exchange, Dublin; four years later he entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Silver Medal in 1773 for a drawing of the interior of Christopher Wren's St Stephen Walbrook.In 1776 he was named surveyor to the Watermen's Guild, and he may have designed their Hall near St Mary-at-Hill, Eastcheap. He was also surveyor for St Thomas' Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he also designed a private home in Denmark Hill.The passage of the Penitentiary Act in 1779 dictated the course of his career. In 1782 he won first prize for prison design in a contest sponsored by the Commissioners for Penitentiary Houses. While those designs were never realized, his entry led him to friendship with Howard and to extensive work as an architect of prisons.In England, his jails include the old City Gaol in Oxford (demolished 1870), the New Borough Gaol in Liverpool, county gaols in Gloucester and Northleach, the County Gaol in Ipswich, and Salop Prison in Shrewsbury. He also altered the Newgate Gaol in Dublin and designed the Limerick and Monmouth County Gaol.Blackburn is also credited with the design of Lewin's Mead Unitarian meeting house, a Unitarian chapel in Bristol.He married Lydia Hobson, a Quaker, in 1783. He died unexpectedly at Preston, Lancashire in November 1790, while travelling to Glasgow to consult on plans for a prison there. He is buried at Bunhill Fields.

Church of England Minister

William B. Kaplan

William Berkeley Lewis (1784 – November 12, 1866) was an influential friend and advisor to Andrew Jackson. He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and later moved near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1809. Major Lewis served as quartermaster under General Jackson. Later, in politics, he was a manager of Jackson and retained considerable influence until Jackson's second term as President of the United States. Jackson appointed Lewis as second auditor of the Treasury, a position he was able to retain until the Polk administration.

William Blanchard (comedian)

William Banks (footballer)

William Benjamin Rounsevell

William Bell Jr. (August 23, 1828 – July 16, 1902) was a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who held many local offices, served in the Ohio House of Representatives, and was Ohio Secretary of State 1875-1877.

William B Reed (politician)

William Ayres

William Berrian Vail, (December 19, 1823 – April 10, 1904) was a Canadian businessman and politician.Vail was born in Sussex Vale, New Brunswick, the son of John Cougle Vail and Charlotte Hannah Arnold. In 1850, he married Charlotte Leslie Jones. He represented Digby County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1867 to 1874. He served in the province's Executive Council as provincial secretary. In 1874, he was elected to the 3rd Canadian Parliament as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Digby. From 1874 to 1878, he was the Minister of Militia and Defence under Alexander Mackenzie. He resigned because of a conflict of interest in the 1877 but returned to parliament in 1882 where he served as an opposition MP until he lost his seat once again in the 1887 general election. He died in Dover, England.His brother Edwin Arnold Vail served in the New Brunswick assembly.

William Botterill and Son

William Briggs (publisher)

William Benson Storey, Jr. (November 17, 1857 – October 24, 1940) was the fifteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.Storey was born November 17, 1857, in San Francisco, California, the son of William Bainbridge Storey, an express, stagecoach and newspaper agent, and Ellen Dean (Benson) Storey. His family moved around following his father's career until 1866 when they settled in Colfax.in 1876, Storey started his railroad career with the Southern Pacific Railroad as a stake driver on the line between Oakland and Berkeley. He used his earnings from that summer and the following year to finance his college education, and he graduated from the University of California in 1881 with a mechanical engineering degree. He hired out with the Central Pacific Railroad and soon found himself working throughout Idaho, Utah and South Dakota as well as the California coast.Storey's association with the Santa Fe began when he was hired by the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway (a Santa Fe subsidiary formed to make the railroad's connection to San Francisco) as chief engineer. He transferred to the Santa Fe in 1903 as chief engineer and worked his way up to the vice presidency of the Santa Fe in 1909. In 1917 he was appointed as the federal manager, and three years later, on January 1, 1920, he succeeded Edward Payson Ripley as president of the Santa Fe. He served as president until his retirement from the position on May 2, 1933. Storey remained on the board of directors until his death in 1940, a year after his successor's own death.

William Birde

William Benson Storey, Jr. (November 17, 1857 – October 24, 1940) was the fifteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.Storey was born November 17, 1857, in San Francisco, California, the son of William Bainbridge Storey, an express, stagecoach and newspaper agent, and Ellen Dean (Benson) Storey.

The William B. Sherman Farm is a historic farmhouse located at 1072 State Road in North Adams, Massachusetts. Built in the 1820s, it is one the city's few surviving 19th-century houses, with relatively few alterations since its elaborate Italianate porch in the 1870s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

William Bawdwen (1762–1816) was an English antiquary.

William H. Clayton (July 17, 1814 – December 4, 1879) was an early leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who was a clerk and scribe to the Mormon religious leader Joseph Smith. Clayton, born in England, was also an American pioneer journalist, inventor, lyricist, and musician.Clayton was born in Penwortham, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. He was the eldest of 14 children. He married Ruth Moon on October 9, 1836.

William Bill Mulder

William Blanchard (1769–1835) was an English comedian.

William B. Gragg is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has made fundamental contributions in numerical analysis, particularly the areas of numerical linear algebra and numerical methods for ordinary differential equations.He received his PhD at UCLA in 1964 under the direction of Peter Henrici.

William Berry (March 6, 1753 – August 29, 1824) was a Maine-born soldier during the American Revolution.

William B. Meeks, Jr

William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford

William Bell Dinsmoor Sr.

William B. Shockley

William Beldue

William Bewley

William Bernhardt is an American thriller/mystery/suspense fiction author best known for his "Ben Kincaid" series of books.

William Bullick Black

William Berkeley Lewis (1784 – November 12, 1866) was an influential friend and advisor to Andrew Jackson. He was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, and later moved near Nashville, Tennessee, in 1809. Major Lewis served as quartermaster under General Jackson. Later, in politics, he was a manager of Jackson and retained considerable influence until Jackson's second term as President of the United States.

William Black (judge)

Writer

William Birkett

William B. Bridges

Bill

William Lawrence Baillieu (22 April 1859 – 6 February 1936) was an Australian financier and politician. He was a successful businessman, having developed significant business interests from his relatively humble beginnings. He associated with many of the most influential people of his era, and served in the Victorian Legislative Council for 21 years, including stints as Minister for Works and Health and leader of the Legislative Council.

William Broad

William Beatty Rochester (January 29, 1789 Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland – June 14, 1838) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

William Bland (disambiguation)

William B. Wright

William B. Downs (1899–January 13, 1966) was an American orthodontist who is known for developing the first cephalometric analysis for orthodontics, the Downs analysis.

William Brantley Aycock (October 24, 1915 – June 20, 2015) was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until 1964 and was the retired Kenan Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law. He was born in Lucama, North Carolina in 1915.A native of Lucama, North Carolina, Aycock served the University of North Carolina for nearly 40 years from his first faculty appointment in the School of Law in 1948 to his retirement as Kenan professor in 1985. He was named chancellor in 1957 and led the university in that capacity until 1964.A 1948 graduate of the UNC School of Law, Aycock was first in his class and editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review. He also holds a master's degree in history from UNC, and a bachelor's degree in education from North Carolina State University where he was president of the student body and a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Prior to entering law school, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II and attained the rank of colonel. He was awarded the Bronze Star, the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.Throughout his academic career, Aycock received many honors and awards. He was the first recipient of the UNC School of Law's McCall Teaching Award, and eventually received it a total of five times. He was an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He received the Thomas Jefferson Award from UNC, the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Lifetime Achievement Award from the UNC Law Alumni Association, the William R. Davie Award from the UNC Board of Trustees, the University Award from the UNC Board of Governors, and the Liberty Bell Award from the North Carolina Bar Association.In 1990, as a tribute to his chancellorship, the department of family medicine’s building was named for Aycock. This honor was in keeping with his long-standing interest in the field of medicine, and his support of family medicine as a way to address the health-care needs of North Carolina's rural citizens. The William B. Aycock professorship in his name was established by his many friends and is held as an endowment at the Medical Foundation of North Carolina, Inc. Aycock died after a fall on June 20, 2015 at the age of 99.Aycock was a cousin of North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock and is best known to sports fans as the man who hired legendary basketball coach Dean Smith. He was chancellor when Frank McGuire resigned when faced with recruiting violations at the end of the 1960-61 season. McGuire decided to leave and coach Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia Warriors, before later moving to the University of South Carolina. When Aycock hired Smith, he told the 30-year-old coach that wins and losses did not count as much as running a clean program and representing the university well. This charge is somewhat ironic, as Smith led the Tar Heels to 879 wins over 36 years.

William Bateman (c. 1298 – 6 January 1355) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich.

Sir William Bagot (died 1407) was a politician and administrator under Richard II.William Bagot was a Warwickshire man who began his career in politics in Warwickshire under the Earl of Warwick. In addition, he also served both John of Gaunt and his son Henry Bolingbroke, as well as Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, future Duke of Norfolk. He was knighted by 1386. He was appointed High Sheriff of Leicestershire and Warwickshire jointly for 1382/3 and attended Parliament as a Knight of the Shire for Warwickshire 11 times between 1388 and 1402.He became one of Richard II's "continual councillors" together with Sir John Bussy and Sir Henry Green. The three continual councillors acquired an infamous reputation.He was tasked by Richard in 1399 with the other two councillors and Treasurer William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, to assist the Duke of York in protecting the realm during his forthcoming military expedition to Ireland. The exiled and dispossessed Henry Bolingbroke seized the opportunity to return to England and forcibly recover his inheritance. Bussy, Green, and Scrope were captured when Bristol Castle surrendered to Henry and summarily tried and executed the next day. Bagot managed to escape to Ireland but was eventually captured and brought to London for trial. He was treated lightly by King Henry (as he was by then) and only imprisoned for a year.He died at his Warwickshire home on 6 September 1407. He had married by 1379, Margaret, sister and heiress of Robert Whatton of Nottinghamshire; they had 2 daughters. His heir was his daughter Isabel, who married Thomas Stafford. Brasses of William and Margaret can be seen in Baginton Church, Warwickshire.He appears as a character in Shakespeare's play Richard II.

William Bendlowes (1516–1584) (also Benloe, Benlow, Benlowe) was an English serjeant-at-law and legal writer. He was a Member of the Parliament of England for Helston October 1553, West Looe April 1554, and Dunheved November 1554.

William Bosisto

William Bender (May 30, 1930 – May 4, 2014) was an American music critic who reviewed for the American Record Guide. A former music critic with the New York Herald Tribune and the World Journal Tribune, he was chief music critic for Time magazine from 1968-1978. He is the author of the Emmy Award winning documentary on Leopold Stokowski which aired on the National Educational Television and BBC networks in 1970. He is the co-author of the 1974 book The Tenors in which he profiled the life and career of opera singer Richard Tucker.Bender earned a Master of Music from Columbia University where he also taught on the music faculty. He is a former faculty member of Syracuse University and Bradley University.

William Benson (Dean)

William Bagot

William Joseph Beldue

William Bradford (1755-1795)

William B. Britton was a military officer and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

William Bell Dinsmoor, Sr.

William Bennet (bishop)

William Bliss Hincks (1841 – November 7, 1903) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.Hincks was born in Bucksport, Maine on and entered service at Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism on July 3, 1863, while serving as a Sergeant Major with the 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gettysburg.

William Bertrand of Provence

William Bentley (novels)

William Blassingame (born January 13, 1836 in Greenville, South Carolina) was a politician serving in the Texas legislature and as a delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875. He was born to William Blassingame and Mary Earl Prince. He is not to be confused with a William Blassingame in the 1830s who was a sheriff in Alabama and South Carolina.

William W. Bell, Sr. (August 31, 1897 – March 16, 1969) was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues.Born in Galveston, Texas, Bell played for the Kansas City Monarchs for the first eight seasons of his career. Often overshadowed by star teammates such as "Bullet" Joe Rogan and José Méndez, Bell was described as quiet and well-liked, known for pitching complete games. (Bell completed 74 percent of the games he started.) Bell had a 10-2 record for the 1924 Kansas City Monarchs, compiling a 2.63 ERA. The following year, Bell went 9-3 in the regular season, pitching 2 games in the World Series to a 1.13 ERA. Bell recorded a 16-3 record the next year, followed by a 13-6 record in 1927 and a 10-7 record in 1928. Bell spent the 1928-1929 winter with Havana in the Cuban League, where he was tied for the league lead in wins with nine. Bell then returned to the United States and pitched to a 14-4 record with the Monarchs, followed by a 9-3 record the next year. Bell joined the Detroit Wolves in 1932 after the demise of the Negro National League. He then signed with the Pittsburgh Crawfords, where he compiled a 16-4 record for the 1932 season. Bell then moved to the Newark Dodgers, and when the Dodgers were merged with the Brooklyn Eagles to form the Newark Eagles, he became the Eagles' manager in 1936-1937. Bell's last season in baseball was as Eagles manager in 1948.Baseball historian Dick Clark estimated that Bell would have averaged an 18-7 record had he played the 154-game schedule that was used in the Major Leagues at the time. He died at age 71 in El Campo, Texas.

William Bliss Hincks (1841 – November 7, 1903) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.Hincks was born in Bucksport, Maine on and entered service at Bridgeport, Connecticut. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism on July 3, 1863, while serving as a Sergeant Major with the 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gettysburg. His Medal of Honor was issued on December 1, 1864.He died at the age of 62, on November 7, 1903, and was buried at the Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

William B. Hooper (1841 – January 16, 1870) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.Hooper was born in Willimantic, Connecticut. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism shown on March 31, 1865, while serving as a Corporal with Company L, 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, at Chamberlains Creek, Virginia. His Medal of Honor was issued on July 3, 1865.He died at the age of 29, on January 16, 1870 and was buried at the Old Willimantic Cemetery in Windham, Connecticut.

William Beckett (Australian politician)

William Binchy is an Irish lawyer. He was the Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin from 1992 to 2012.Binchy was educated at University College Dublin. He is a Barrister-at-Law and practised at the Irish Bar from 1968-70. He was a Research Counsellor to the Irish Law Reform Commission and special legal advisor on family law reform to the Department of Justice.

William Beamont (disambiguation)

William B. Bridges (born 1934) is the Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics in the Engineering and Applied Science division at the California Institute of Technology. Born in Inglewood, California, he is the discover/inventor of the Argon Ion laser, and holds the patent for the Ionized Noble Gas Laser.He received his undergraduate and graduate education at the University of California at Berkeley (BS electrical engineering 1956; MS 1957; PhD 1962). His graduate research dealt with noise in microwave tubes and electron-stream instabilities (which later became the basis of the Vircator high power microwave oscillator.)He joined the Hughes Research Laboratories division of the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1960 where he worked briefly on microwave vacuum tubes, then gas lasers. He discovered and patented the noble gas (argon, krypton, xenon) ion lasers in 1964, lasers that are still around 50 years later (in DNA sequencers, cell sorters, eye surgery, and at laser light shows.) He worked on many projects using lasers: an airborne night reconnaissance system (AN/AVD-3), space communications systems, early high power laser weapons (the carbon dioxide gas dynamic laser, now extinct), hydrogen maser clocks for the global positioning system.He was a Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech in 1974-75, and in 1977 became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics; then the Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering in 1983. His work at Caltech included microwaves, millimeter waves, lasers, optics, and opto-electronics. In the early 1980s he recruited female undergraduate advisees and reactivated the Society for Women Engineers Chapter at Caltech. He had seen the dearth of female engineers, and how uncomfortable they were in the field, and hoped to get women interested in engineering. An amateur radio operator (a ‘ham’) since the age of 14, he was a very active member of the Caltech Amateur Radio Club. He holds an Amateur Extra Class license, W6FA.Bridges was awarded the Arthur L. Schawlow Medal from the Laser Institute of America in 1988; received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1980 and 1982, and the Lifetime Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000 from the Associated Students of Caltech.He is a Fellow of the IEEE; the Optical Society of America, where he was president in 1988; and the Laser Institute of America. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was on the committee of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board 1985-89; he is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Uniphase Corporation 1986-98, and currently a member of the Board at Access Laser Corp.

Sir William Bereford (died 1326) was an English justice.

William Briggs

William B. Gragg is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has made fundamental contributions in numerical analysis, particularly the areas of numerical linear algebra and numerical methods for ordinary differential equations.He received his PhD at UCLA in 1964 under the direction of Peter Henrici. His dissertation work resulted in the Gragg Extrapolation method for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations (sometimes also called the Bulirsch–Stoer algorithm).Gragg is also well known for his work on the QR algorithm for unitary Hessenberg matrices, on updating the QR factorization, superfast solution of Toeplitz systems, parallel algorithms for solving eigenvalue problems, as well as his exposition on the Pade table and its relation to a great number of algorithms in numerical analysis.

William B. Rochester

William Birch (disambiguation)

William Bolton (dean)

William Black (musician)

William Bidwill

William Bellers (fl. 1749–1773) was an English landscape painter.

William Clayton (Mormon)

William Bennett (flautist)

William Babington

Brigadier-General William Thomas Clifford Beckett CBE DSO VD (1862 – 4 March 1956) was a British railway engineer in India and a British Army officer.Beckett was the eldest son of William Henry Beckett, a colonel in the Indian Army and his wife Sarah Philadelphia Beckett (née Walton). He was educated at Tonbridge School (1877–1880, as a day-boy) and Crystal Palace School of Engineering. His uncle, Frederick Thomas Granville Walton, was an acclaimed bridge engineer in India, who was in charge of the construction of the Dufferin Bridge over the Ganges at Benares between 1881 and 1887, and who served from 1900 as the engineer-in-chief for the construction of the iconic Havelock Bridge, a 2700-metre crossing of the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh.In 1887, Beckett was appointed a district engineer with the Bengal-Nagpur Railway in India. He became an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1889 and a member in 1895. He was promoted to superintending engineer in 1900 and chief engineer and acting general manager in 1901. He was particularly noted for his bridging of the rivers in Orissa, for which he was awarded the Stephenson Gold Medal and the Telford Premium. The largest and most challenging bridge completed as part of these works was the construction of the first rail bridge over the Mahanadi River at Cuttack, which was completed in 1900. From 1900 to 1904 he was government representative on both the Calcutta Port Trust and the Calcutta Corporation.For many years, Beckett was an officer in the Bengal-Nagpur Railway Rifles, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel commanding the battalion. On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he joined the British Army and in 1915 was given command of the 1st/12th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, a pioneer battalion which he commanded for the rest of the war, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1918.In 1919 he was given command of the British Military Railway Mission in Siberia and Manchuria during the Russian Civil War and was later given the rank of brigadier-general. He was mentioned in dispatches four times and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Siberian War Honours of January 1920. From 1921 to 1923, when he retired, he was British member of the Inter-Allied Technical Board for the Trans-Siberian Railway at Harbin. He was awarded the Chinese Order of Chia Ho and the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.In December 1889 William Beckett married Bessie Drummond Thomason, fourth daughter of Major-General Charles Simeon Thomason and granddaughter of James Thomason, lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces from 1843 to 1853 and founder of the College of Civil Engineering at Roorkee. Major-General Clifford Thomason Beckett and Captain W. N. T. Beckett RN were his sons.

William Beighton

William Bennett Webster (January 18, 1798 – April 4, 1861) was a doctor, amateur geologist and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented King's County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1855 to 1861.He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, the son of Doctor Isaac Webster and Prudence Bentley. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, later returning to Kentville around 1822. In 1826, Webster married Wilhelmina Moore. He helped found the Nova Scotia Medical Society in 1854.

William Beesley

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Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals

William Beverly Carter Jr.

William Bendlowes

Come, Come Ye Saints, sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.ogg

William Biffen

William B. Bridges (born 1934) is the Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics in the Engineering and Applied Science division at the California Institute of Technology.

William Blyth Gerish

William Beatty Rochester

William Bainbridge Castle

William Barlow (dean of Peterborough)

William B. Sappington House

William Briggs (9 September 1836 – 5 November 1922) was an Irish-born Canadian Methodist minister and publisher. His popularity as a preacher led him to become pastor of Metropolitan Church in Toronto. As book steward from 1879 to 1918 the Methodist Book and Publishing House became one of Canada's most prominent publishing houses; after he stepped down it was renamed Ryerson Press.

William Berkeley Lewis

William Bright (1824–1901) was an English ecclesiastical historian and Anglican priest.

William Barré

William Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock

The William Briggs Homestead is an historic farmhouse at 1470 Turner Street in Auburn, Maine. Built in 1797 by one of the area's early settlers, it is one of Auburn's oldest surviving buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

William Bensinger (January 14, 1840 to December 19, 1918) was an American soldier who fought for the Union in the American Civil War. On March 25, 1863, he was the second person given the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the Great Locomotive Chase in Georgia in April 1862.

William Bensley

William Bernard Robinson King

William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman of Shobdon (24 June 1780 – 22 July 1845) was a Member of Parliament and later a Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.At birth his name was William Hanbury, although he was a distant descendant of Sir James Bateman who had been Lord Mayor of London, was his 2nd Great-Grandfather. Hanbury studied at Eton College and then Christ Church, Oxford graduating from the later in 1798.He served as a Whig MP from Northampton from 1810-1818. From 1819-1820 he was High Sheriff of Herefordshire. In 1835 Hanbury made an unsuccessful run for Parliament as a liberal.In January 1837 Hanbury became the first Baron Bateman of Shobdon. In February he had his name legally changed to William Bateman-Hanbury. In 1822 he had married Elizabeth Chichester, the granddaughter of Arthur Chichester, 1st Marquess of Donegall.

William Bright (historian)

William Bray (died 1644) was an English priest, chaplain to William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. As licenser of publications of John Pocklington, he was drawn into Pocklington's case before the Long Parliament.

William "Bill" Bludworth is a fictional character in the Final Destination film series, portrayed by Tony Todd. He appears in Final Destination, Final Destination 2, and Final Destination 5. William Bludworth is the owner of Bludworth Funeral Homes and has the most knowledge of Death and its forces or capacities.

William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak

William Joseph Beldue (1889 – September 28, 1955) was the American inventor of the eyelash curler.

William Baillieu

William J. Broad (born March 7, 1951) is an American science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The New York Times.

William Bell (1731 – 29 September 1816) was a Church of England minister who engaged with vigour in some of the theological controversies of his day. He is remembered as a writer on theological matters and as a benefactor of Cambridge University and of other causes.

William Barnstead

William Betty

William Bridges (MP)

William B. Wright (April 16, 1806 – January 12, 1868) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals in 1868.

William B. Britton

William James Beckett CBE (10 June 1870 – 7 May 1965) was an Australian politician.Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry. On 22 February 1893 he married Alice Maud Street, with whom he had two children.

William Bateman Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman

Benefactor

William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted

railway engineering

William Bigler

William Brassington (1837/1841 – 3 March 1905) was a stonemason, sculptor and builder practising in Christchurch, New Zealand in the late 19th century. His sculptured carving on many of the city's unique Gothic revival public buildings is regarded as some of the finest in the Southern Hemisphere.

William B. Travis High School

Theologian

William Bodrugan (MP fl. 1420–33)

William Barnett House is a historic home located at Alleghany Springs, Montgomery County, Virginia. It is a long two-story, log and frame structure consisting of a number of elements of different dates. The earliest section may date to 1813, and is the central log section with a two-story frame or log addition and adjacent room and a frame two-room section added in the mid-19th century. It has a rear wing and is topped by a standing seam metal gable roof. It features a two-story ornamental porch that spans the entire front of the building with chamfered posts and sawn balusters. Also on the property are a contributing two-story, single-pen log kitchen; a small stone shed-roofed greenhouse; and a corn crib.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

William Bolcolm

William Bil

William Bell (city founder)

William Bernard Ziff, Sr.

"Come, Come Ye Saints"

William B. Storey, Jr.

William Botterill & Son

William Billington (1875 – 1952) was an English executioner. He was on the Home Office list from 1902 to 1905 and had participated in hangings from 1899.

William Bagnall

William Biles (1644 – 19 May 1710) was an American judge, attorney, legislator, sheriff, land speculator and merchant. Born in England and educated in law, Biles brought his family to America in 1679 and settled in what would become Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, before the charter of William Penn. The Biles family had been persecuted for their religious dissension in England, and William became a prominent Quaker minister.

William Binchy is an Irish lawyer. He was the Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin from 1992 to 2012.Binchy was educated at University College Dublin. He is a Barrister-at-Law and practised at the Irish Bar from 1968-70. He was a Research Counsellor to the Irish Law Reform Commission and special legal advisor on family law reform to the Department of Justice. He has been a consultant to the Department of Foreign Affairs and represented Ireland at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Professor Binchy is a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission. He specialises in private international law, the law of torts and family law. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of King's Inns.He has been involved in a number of campaigns in connection with proposed amendments to the Constitution of Ireland. In particular, he campaigned:in favour of the constitutional ban on abortion in 1983 (successfully);against the introduction of divorce in Ireland (successfully in 1986, and unsuccessfully in 1995);against the restriction of the automatic, constitutional right to citizenship of all of those born on the island of Ireland (unsuccessfully in 2004);against the Marriage Equality Bill 2015, to provide for same-sex marriage (unsuccessfully).His uncle was the historian D. A. Binchy. He is the brother of novelist Maeve Binchy. His daughter is the RTÉ producer and former College Tribune editor Sarah Binchy.Since 2012, he has returned to the Irish bar. and now holds a Professoriate Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin.

William Bray (priest)

William B. Trower Bayshore Natural Area Preserve is a Natural Area Preserve located in Northampton County, Virginia. A small preserve with no public facilities, it is located on the Chesapeake Bay, and contains beach strand and dune communities. It supports a population of the northeastern beach tiger beetle, as well as some scrubland and woodland areas.The preserve was named in honor of William Bell Trower, a Northampton County physician and farmer. The land for the preserve, part of Trower's original landholdings on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was donated to the commonwealth of Virginia by his eldest daughter after his death.

William Bridgeman (MP for Bramber)

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William Butler Hornblower (May 13, 1851 – June 16, 1914) was a New York jurist who was unsuccessfully nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Grover Cleveland in 1893.

William Bennet (engineer)

William Aylesbury

William Benjamin Spofford, Jr. (January 28, 1921—November 5, 2013) was the 4th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon from 1969 to 1979 From 1979 to 1984 he served as Assistant Bishop of Washington (D.C.). He was the son of William B. Spofford Sr., also a priest and from 1919 to 1972 editor of The Witness.An alumnus of Lenox School for Boys, he received a BA from Antioch College, and a BD from the Episcopal Theological School (now the Episcopal Divinity School) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which bestowed its Distinguished Alumnus Award on him in 2009. He was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1945. He later studied at the Yale Center for Alcohol Studies and earned an MSW from the University of Michigan.He was married to the former Pauline L. Fawcett from 1944 until her death in 2008.

William Bradford Reed

William Bardwell

William B Bernard

William Renald Barton III (born September 28, 1950) is an American science fiction writer. In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera.Barton also has written short stories that put an emphasis on sexuality and human morality in otherwise traditional science fiction.

Brigadier-General William Thomas Clifford Beckett CBE DSO VD (1862 – 4 March 1956) was a British railway engineer in India and a British Army officer.Beckett was the eldest son of William Henry Beckett, a colonel in the Indian Army and his wife Sarah Philadelphia Beckett (née Walton). He was educated at Tonbridge School (1877–1880, as a day-boy) and Crystal Palace School of Engineering.

William Belshaw

William B. Harris

William B. Tolman is an inorganic chemist whose laboratory works on synthesis and characterization of bioinorganic systems, organometallic reagents and polymers. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Wesleyan University in 1983, and then completed a Ph.D. program in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley by 1987 under the guidance of Professor K. Peter C. Vollhardt. He is currently employed at the University of Minnesota as the Department Chair of Chemistry.

William B. Hooper

William B. Tolman

William Brandford-Griffith

William Bennett Webster

William B. Fleming

William B. Tolman is an inorganic chemist whose laboratory works on synthesis and characterization of bioinorganic systems, organometallic reagents and polymers. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Wesleyan University in 1983, and then completed a Ph.D. program in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley by 1987 under the guidance of Professor K. Peter C. Vollhardt. He is currently employed at the University of Minnesota as the Department Chair of Chemistry. In addition to his faculty position, he is also the Editor and Chief of the ACS journal of Inorganic Chemistry.

William B. Downs

William Blackburn

William Aylesbury (1615 – 24 August 1656), was an English translator from the Italian.Aylesbury, although a supporter of Charles I, obtained an office under the Commonwealth, was the son of Sir Thomas Aylesbury; in 1628 he became a gentleman commoner at Christ Church, Oxford, and took his bachelor's degree in 1631, at the early age of sixteen (Wood, Fasti Oxon. i. 460). His sister Frances married Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Lord Clarendon. Although possessing a large fortune, Aylesbury soon afterwards became, at the invitation of Charles I, governor to the young Duke of Buckingham and his brother, Lord Francis Villiers, and travelled with them through France and Italy. In 1640 Aylesbury was residing at Paris, and in his correspondence with his brother-in-law, Sir Edward Hyde, which is preserved in the Bodleian Library among the 'Clarendon Papers,' bitterly lamented the course of English politics under the Long Parliament. In the middle of May 1641 he returned from Paris to London with the Earl of Leicester, the English ambassador at the French court, with whom he had been apparently living in an official capacity for some months (Cal. State Papers, 1640-1, pp. 558, 561, 562). Shortly afterwards he presented his former pupils to the king at Oxford, who promised him the next vacancy among the grooms of the chambers, but the promise was never fulfilled, and Aylesbury continued in the service of the Duke of Buckingham, as his agent, until the final defeat of the royalists.During his interview with Charles I, the king urged Aylesbury, who was well acquainted with Italian, to continue a translation of Enrico Caterino Davila's 'History of the French Civil Wars,' which he had just begun, and during the following years he was mainly engaged in the work; but he was only in England at intervals, and witnessed his royal patron's disasters from the safe distance of Paris or Rome. He and his friend, Sir Charles Cotterel, who materially aided him, received, however, frequent encouragement from the king. In spite of his political troubles, Charles, in fact, read through the whole of the manuscript before the book was printed. The translation was published with a dedication to the king in 1647, and bore the title, The Historic of the Civil Warres of France, written in Italian by H. C. Davila. Translated out of the originall. London, 1647, fol. On the fall of Charles I, Aylesbury sought refuge with his father, first at Amsterdam, and afterwards at Antwerp; and he took under his protection his sister, Lady Hyde. But his poverty, caused by the confiscation of the property of his family, forced him in 1650 to return to England, and retiring to the neighbourhood of Oxford, he lived on the charity of his more fortunate friends. Early in 1656, however, he obtained the office of secretary to Major-General Robert Sedgwick, who had just been appointed Governor of Jamaica, and finally left England. For a few months he took an active part in the government of the island, but he died on 24 August 1656. A letter conveying the news of his death to Secretary John Thurloe describes him as 'a man well versed in the weighty affairs of state, who in his counsels and advice, both to army and fleet, was very useful, for the want of which we shall have more and more to grieve.' Aylesbury's translation of Davila was republished in 1678 with a preface by Sir Charles Cotterel, who there claimed for himself the execution of the greater part of the original version.

William Bennet (4 March 1746 – 16 July 1820) (spelled William Bennett on his memorial in Cloyne Cathedral) was Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, and an antiquary.He was born in the Tower of London and educated at Harrow School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was senior tutor for many years. One of his pupils was John Fane, who appointed Bennet as his chaplain on taking up the post of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1790.

William B. and Mary Shuford Palmer House

William Bender

William Blanc Monroe

William Blassingame

Text written by William Clayton in 1846. Performed by theMormon Tabernacle ChoirandOrchestra at Temple Squarein 2008.

William Brantley Aycock (October 24, 1915 – June 20, 2015) was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until 1964 and was the retired Kenan Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law.

Sir William Babthorpe (1489/90–1555), of Osgodby and Flotmanby, Yorkshire, was an English politician.He was the eldest son of William Babthorpe of Osgodby and educated in the law.He held a number of public offices, including membership of the Council of the North from 1536 to his death and the Constableship of Wressle Castle (1513) and was knighted in 1547. He also served as the Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.

William Beeman (professor)

William Biles (1644 – 19 May 1710) was an American judge, attorney, legislator, sheriff, land speculator and merchant. Born in England and educated in law, Biles brought his family to America in 1679 and settled in what would become Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, before the charter of William Penn. The Biles family had been persecuted for their religious dissension in England, and William became a prominent Quaker minister. "After the withdrawal of the Declaration of Indulgence dissenters were more often punished for being absent from their parish churches... Quakers were always fair game and in the following spring (1674) two of them, William Biles and Thomas Strong, were presented at the Assizes." Presumably punishment for being absent from their parish church and attending Quaker ceremonies.Biles was a Justice of the first Provincial (Supreme) Court which was convened as early as 1681, a member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Council from 1683 to 1700 and of the Legislature from 1686 to 1708. He owned large tracts of land in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (including more than 50,000 acres in what is now Salem County, New Jersey) and was qualified as a proprietor of West New Jersey. He traveled back to England for Quaker interests in 1701 and 1702, and returned to Pennsylvania where he died in 1710.

William Baird of Elie DL (23 April 1796 – 8 March 1864), was the Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk Burghs. He was first elected at the 1841 general election, and held the seat until he resigned from Parliament on 2 May 1846, by the procedural device of becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.The resulting by-election in Falkirk was won by the Tory candidate, Henry Pelham-Clinton, known by his courtesy title "Earl of Lincoln". When Lincoln acceded to his Dukedom in 1851, Baird's brother James Baird was elected in his place.

William Bickford (1815-1850)

William B. Ives

William Benjamin Spofford, Jr. (January 28, 1921—November 5, 2013) was the 4th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon from 1969 to 1979 From 1979 to 1984 he served as Assistant Bishop of Washington (D.C.). He was the son of William B.

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William B Douglas

William Bonville, 6th Baron of Harington

William Beauchamp Lygon, 2nd Earl Beauchamp

William Bennett Webster (January 18, 1798 – April 4, 1861) was a doctor, amateur geologist and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented King's County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1855 to 1861.He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, the son of Doctor Isaac Webster and Prudence Bentley. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, later returning to Kentville around 1822. In 1826, Webster married Wilhelmina Moore. He helped found the Nova Scotia Medical Society in 1854. He also laid out the plan for the main streets of Kentville. Webster died in office at Halifax at the age of 63. His geological collection was donated to the provincial museum.

William Binchy

William Blanc Monroe Jr.

William Baillie (cricketer)

William Babthorpe

William Bell

William Barclay (Northern Irish politician)

William B. Ellern (born November 30, 1933) is an American science fiction author. Ellern has worked as an engineer, including for JPL, Raytheon, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft and Northrop Corporation.He was born in Portland, Oregon to May Eileen Ellern and William C. Ellern.In July 1965 he asked for, and received, permission from E. E. Smith to extend the Lensman series of novels. After that he continued to produce science-fiction short stories, including "Moon Prospector" (Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1966), "New Lensman" (serialized in 14 parts in Perry Rhodan #61-74, 1975) and "Triplanetary Agent" (serialized in 6 parts in Perry Rhodan #100-105, 1978). There is a fourth unpublished story.In 1976 New Lensman was published, which contained "Moon Prospector" along with the "New Lensman" serial from Perry Rhodan. "Triplanetary Agent" has yet to be reprinted in book form.Ellern served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society until January 2009.Ellern married Anne Morrel.William Ellern has four children, William A., Scott A., Gillian D. and Lorita E.

William Bellers

William Blandell Spence

William B. T. Trego

William B. Trower Bayshore Natural Area Preserve

William B. Royall

William Benjamin Gould

William Bradford Reed (June 30, 1806 – February 18, 1876) was an American attorney, diplomat, academic and journalist. He is best known for his biography of his grandfather, General Joseph Reed.

William Bennet

William Charles Ellis

Science writer, journalist

William Beardmore, 1st Baron Ivernairn

William Blamire Young

William Bertrand (died 28 July 1094), known as William V or Bertrand I or II, was the count and margrave of Provence from 1051 to his death. He succeeded his father Fulk Bertrand on his death in that year, but did not receive the margravial title at first, for it went to his uncle Josfred.William Bertrand co-ruled for his entire life with his uncle and cousins, though he received the margravial rank upon his uncle's death in 1062. In 1081, Bernard renounced his allegiance to the Holy Roman Emperor and swore fealty to the Papacy. When he died, the margraviate was inherited by Raymond IV of Toulouse.His first wife was Theresa, daughter of Ramiro I of Aragon. His second wife was Adelaide of Cavenez. Their daughter, Adelaide, inherited Forcalquier from her uncle.

William Blackmore

William Bland (died 1945) was a British politician and trade unionist.Bland worked as a joiner in Keighley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was active in the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. He was an early member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and, through it, became active in the Labour Party, serving as the secretary of the town's Labour Representation Committee.Two weeks before the Keighley by-election, 1913 was held, the ILP proposed that Bland should stand in it. While the Labour Party had not been planning to stand a candidate, it found that support for Bland among the local party was very high, and so agreed to endorse his candidature, despite concerns about poor organisation in the local party. The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies also agreed to back Bland, as he was the only candidate committed to women's suffrage, although it decided against giving him financial backing. They were concerned that he would fail to match the 28.9% of the vote which William Crawford Anderson had received as the Labour candidate in the Keighley by-election, 1911, and that this would discredit their cause. Ultimately, Bland performed well, taking 29.8% of the vote, but third place.Another by-election arose in Keighley, in 1918. As World War I was underway, the main political parties had a national pact not to stand against each other, but the ILP opposed the war and decided to stand Bland in the election. Aware that he would not receive the endorsement of the Labour Party, he did not seek it, but he received the full backing of the ILP, which financially sponsored his candidacy, and was also backed by the local trades council. His campaign focused on ending the war by negotiation. Standing against a single opponent, the Liberal William Somervell, Bland received 32.5% of the votes cast. He declared that this total was in line with his expectations.Bland stood again in Keighley at the 1918 UK general election. Facing both Somervell and a new Conservative Party opponent, he took third place with 27.7% of the vote. He subsequently focused on local politics, and served as Mayor of Keighley in 1928/28, the first Labour Party politician to hold the post. He died in 1945.

William Brooke Thomas Trego (15 September, 1858 – 24 June, 1909) was an American painter best known for his historical military subjects, in particular scenes of the American Revolution and Civil War.

William B. Hooper (1841 – January 16, 1870) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.Hooper was born in Willimantic, Connecticut. He was awarded the Medal of Honor, for extraordinary heroism shown on March 31, 1865, while serving as a Corporal with Company L, 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, at Chamberlains Creek, Virginia.

William B. Kaplan is an American sound engineer. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards in the category Best Sound. He has worked on over 80 films since 1972.

William Boston (abbot)

William Bennett Bizzell

William B. Spofford

The Very Rev William Hagger Barlow DD (1833–1908) was the Dean of Peterborough in the Church of England from 1901 until his death in 1908.William Hagger Barlow was born in 1833, son of Henry Hagger, Vicar of Pitsmoor, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1858, he began his career with a curacy at St James Bristol before being appointed Vicar of St Bartholomew Montpelier. After serving as Vicar of St.

William Roy Clifford Bagnall (10 April 1882 – 28 May 1950) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician.He was born at Turua to sawmill owner Albert Edward Bagnall and Emma, née Brent. He moved to Sydney in 1903, where he immediately became involved in the union movement, being the first secretary and a foundation delegate of the Labor Council of New South Wales, representing the Process Engravers' Union (Printing Trades Federation Council from 1909). Around 1907 he married Ruby Fitzgerald at Enmore, with whom he had five children. He worked as a process engraver during this period. In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for St George. In the 1917 split Bagnall, a supporter of conscription, joined the Nationalist Party. He continued to represent St George with the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, but he was defeated in 1925; five months later he returned to the Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by Thomas Ley's resignation. He left the Assembly in 1927 and managed Hoyts theatre from 1927 to 1944. Bagnall died at Mosman in 1950.

William Bereford

William Beckner (mathematician)

William Berry (journalist)

William Bertrand (died 28 July 1094), known as William V or Bertrand I or II, was the count and margrave of Provence from 1051 to his death. He succeeded his father Fulk Bertrand on his death in that year, but did not receive the margravial title at first, for it went to his uncle Josfred.William Bertrand co-ruled for his entire life with his uncle and cousins, though he received the margravial rank upon his uncle's death in 1062.

William Brockman (sailor)

William Bill Hudson

William Bland (died 1945) was a British politician and trade unionist.Bland worked as a joiner in Keighley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and was active in the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. He was an early member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and, through it, became active in the Labour Party, serving as the secretary of the town's Labour Representation Committee.Two weeks before the Keighley by-election, 1913 was held, the ILP proposed that Bland should stand in it.

William Beesley VC (5 October 1895 – 23 September 1966) 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.

William W. Bell, Sr.

William Berry (Maine settler)

William B. Eagan

William Bradford Ross (December 4, 1873 – October 2, 1924) was the 12th Governor of Wyoming from January 1, 1923 to October 2, 1924.

William Baird (MP)

William Bouguereau

Sir William Bagot (died 1407) was a politician and administrator under Richard II.William Bagot was a Warwickshire man who began his career in politics in Warwickshire under the Earl of Warwick. In addition, he also served both John of Gaunt and his son Henry Bolingbroke, as well as Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, future Duke of Norfolk. He was knighted by 1386.

William B. Sappington House, also known as Prairie Park, is a historic home located near Arrow Rock, Saline County, Missouri. It was built in 1843, and is a 2 1/2-story, square, Greek Revival style brick dwelling on a limestone foundation. It measures 60 feet wide. The front facade features a two-story front portico with Doric order and Ionic order columns. Its roof is topped by a roof deck and cupola. The house was extensively restored from 1948 to 1955.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

William F. Berndt is a former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate.

William Bright, D. D.

William B. Hincks

William Bender (May 30, 1930 – May 4, 2014) was an American music critic who reviewed for the American Record Guide. A former music critic with the New York Herald Tribune and the World Journal Tribune, he was chief music critic for Time magazine from 1968-1978. He is the author of the Emmy Award winning documentary on Leopold Stokowski which aired on the National Educational Television and BBC networks in 1970.

William Berry (c.1835–2 October 1903) was a New Zealand journalist and newspaper editor. He was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on c.1835.

William Bell Dinsmoor

William Bateman-Hanbury, 1st Baron Bateman

William Bell (baseball)

William Bingham Baring

William Bernard O’Donoghue

William Belsey

William W. Bell, Sr. (August 31, 1897 – March 16, 1969) was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues.Born in Galveston, Texas, Bell played for the Kansas City Monarchs for the first eight seasons of his career. Often overshadowed by star teammates such as "Bullet" Joe Rogan and José Méndez, Bell was described as quiet and well-liked, known for pitching complete games.

William Bangerter

Comedian

William Bridgeman FRS (c.1646 – 10 May 1699) was a senior English civil servant and MP.He was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, the son of Richard Bridgeman, a merchant for the East India Company and was the cousin of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Ridley. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1662. He became a naturalised British subject in 1657 and lived at Combes Hall, near Stowmarket, Suffolk.He became a civil servant and occupied a number of important posts, viz.

William Beckner

William Bergstrom

William Beckford

William B. Richardson

William James Beckett CBE (10 June 1870 – 7 May 1965) was an Australian politician.Born in Prahran to Irish-born taxi proprietor Samuel Beckett and Scottish-born Margaret Cameron, he attended both state and private schools before becoming a second-hand furniture dealer at Fitzroy with his brother Henry. On 22 February 1893 he married Alice Maud Street, with whom he had two children. In 1914 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as Labor member for Melbourne North; that year he was also elected to Fitzroy City Council, where he would serve until 1932 (mayor 1921–22, 1925–26). From July to November 1924 he was a minister without portfolio, and from May 1927 to November 1928 and from December 1929 to June 1931 he was Minister for Forests and Public Health. From around 1930 he lived in St Kilda. Defeated in 1931, Beckett was re-elected for Melbourne East in 1934, switching to Melbourne in 1940. From 1937 to 1943 he was the Labor Party's leader in the Legislative Council. He held his seat until 1952; in 1953 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Beckett died at St Kilda in 1965 and is buried in St Kilda Cemetery.

William Black House

William Baird of Elie DL (23 April 1796 – 8 March 1864), was the Tory Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk Burghs. He was first elected at the 1841 general election, and held the seat until he resigned from Parliament on 2 May 1846, by the procedural device of becoming Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.The resulting by-election in Falkirk was won by the Tory candidate, Henry Pelham-Clinton, known by his courtesy title "Earl of Lincoln".

William Blackburn (1750~1790) was the leading prison architect of the Georgian Era. Following the principles of John Howard, his designs aimed to provide inmates with dray and airy cells.Blackburn was born in Southwark, London the son of a tradesman and his wife, who may have been Spanish. He was apprenticed to a surveyor, but "derived very little advantage" from his master.

William Berrian Vail

Sir William Babthorpe (1489/90–1555), of Osgodby and Flotmanby, Yorkshire, was an English politician.He was the eldest son of William Babthorpe of Osgodby and educated in the law.He held a number of public offices, including membership of the Council of the North from 1536 to his death and the Constableship of Wressle Castle (1513) and was knighted in 1547. He also served as the Custos Rotulorum of the East Riding of Yorkshire from c. 1547 to his death.He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Yorkshire in 1547 and April 1554.He died in 1555. He had married Agnes, the daughter of Brian Palmes of Naburn, Yorkshire and had 2 sons and 2 daughters.

William Barton

William Bridges Adams (1797 – 23 July 1872) was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer. He is best known for his patented Adams axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate. His writings, including English Pleasure Carriages (1837) and Roads and Rails (1862) covered all forms of land transport. Later he became a noted writer on political reform, under the pen name Junius Redivivus (Junius reborn); a reference to a political letter writer of the previous century.

Sound engineer

William Broadbent (disambiguation)

William B. Taylor Jr.

William Badger (disambiguation)

William Bernhardt