William Lawson, MLC (2 June 1774 – 16 June 1850) was an English born explorer, land owner, grazier and politician who migrated to Sydney, New South Wales in 1800. Along with his close friends and colleagues Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth, he pioneered the first successful crossing of the Blue Mountains by European settlers.

William Leslie (died 1513), 3rd Earl of Rothes, was the son of Andrew Leslie, Master of Rothes, and Marjory (also known as Elizabeth) Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. He succeeded his elder brother George as Earl in 1513.As George had tried to sell the family lands without royal permission William was trying to recover his rights, especially over the Barony centred on Ballinbreich Castle.

William Lawson (explorer)

William Lesick

William Lionel Clause

William Leigh (b Rushall, Herefordshire 1752 – d Hereford 1808) was an Anglican priest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.Leigh was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He held livings at Little Plumstead,Witton and Brundall.

William Leslie Hooper

Signor Farini

William Little (rugby league)

William LeBaron (February 16, 1883 – February 9, 1958) was an American film producer.

William Lisle (disambiguation)

William Lewis Moody Jr.

William Kirby Linvill (August 8, 1919 – August 17, 1980) was an American electrical engineer. He served as a professor at Stanford University from 1960 to 1980. He was the founder of the Institute in Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford, which later became the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, with Linvill as the first chair.

William Lewis Moody

Enrico Farino

William Lea (b Stone, Worcestershire 6 June 1820 - d Droitwich 24 September 1889) was Archdeacon of Worcester from 1881 to 1889.Walters was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1845. He was for many years the Vicar of St Peter, Droitwich.

Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621–1675), after fighting on the side of Charles I in the English Civil War, attached himself to Oliver Cromwell, whose niece he married, and who later appointed Lockhart commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland in 1652. He was also the English ambassador at the French court in 1656, where he greatly distinguished himself by his successful diplomacy. He also served at the Battle of the Dunes.

William Lawrence Stribling, Jr.

William Littlewood was an aeronautical engineer noted for his contributions to the design and operational requirements of transport aircraft. He graduated from Cornell University in 1920 and was the only person to preside over both SAE and AIAA, two of the main aerospace professional organizations.

William Leslie Hooper (August 2, 1855 – October 3, 1918) was the acting president of Tufts College (later Tufts University) from 1912 to 1914, between the terms of the fourth and fifth elected presidents.

William Lenthal

William Latham (born 1961) is a British computer artist, most known as the creator of the Organic Art product as well as for creating album covers and artwork for the dance group The Shamen. Latham is the founder of the company Computer Artworks which released the Organic Art product through Time Warner Interactive.

William Leonard Hunt (June 10, 1838 – January 17, 1929), also known by the stage name The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive.

William Larned Mercy Pendleton

William Linvill

Screenwriter, producer

William Levi Dawson

William Lloyd (Archdeacon of Durban)

William Leonard Higgitt

William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth FRS, SA (29 November 1784 – 22 November 1853), styled The Honourable William Legge until 1801 and Viscount Lewisham between 1801 and 1810, was a British peer.

William Launcelot Scott Fleming

William Lawson (1836 – 1916) was the second son to Sir Wilfrid and Caroline Lawson, an English agriculturalist and pioneer co-operator, who owned, at great personal expense, an experimental farm in Cumberland, between the years 1862 and 1872.

Guillermo Antonio Farini

William Lawson (co-operator)

William Laxton (disambiguation)

William Lloyd (nonjuror)

Francis William Lawvere (; born February 9, 1937) is a mathematician known for his work in category theory, topos theory and the philosophy of mathematics.

William Livingstone (disambiguation)

William LeSassier

William Ling (disambiguation)

William Leaney was an English cricketer. He was a wicket-keeper who played for Kent. Leaney was born in Hawkhurst.Leaney made a single first-class appearance, in 1815, against England. Batting as a tailender, Leaney scored two runs in the first innings and two in the second in which he batted.

William O. Link

William Little Lee

William Livingston Alden

William Edmund Leach (7 November 1851 – 30 November 1932) was an English cricketer who played for Canterbury and Lancashire. He was born in Rochdale and died in Buckinghamshire. He appeared in six first-class matches as a righthanded batsman, scoring 235 runs with a highest score of 56 and held one catch.

William Leonard Taylor

William Loftus

William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes

William Lawson (Speedway Rider)

William Least Heat Moon

William Lawford

William Leopold Essex

William Lawies Jackson

Film producer

William Lewis Dayton Jr. (April 13, 1839 – July 28, 1897) was an American lawyer, judge and diplomat who served as U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. He was the son of William L. Dayton.

William Lehman (disambiguation)

William Lockhart

William Laverick

William Frederic Lawrence (29 December 1844 – 15 January 1935) was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1906.He was the eldest son of the Rev. Charles Washington Lawrence of Liverpool. He went to Eton College, and received a B.A. from Christ Church, Oxford in 1867 and an M.A. in 1872. He began the study of law at Lincoln's Inn in 1867 and was called to the bar in 1871.

William Lawrence Evans

William Leworthy Good Drew, CMG

William Lewis (Delaware County, NY)

William Lazonick (born in Toronto, Canada, on June 8, 1945) is an economist who studies innovation and competition in the global economy. His research seeks to understand how, on the basis of innovative enterprise, a national economy can achieve stable and equitable economic growth. Lazonick is the originator of “the theory of innovative enterprise”, which, he argues, provides both an essential intellectual foundation for understanding economic performance and a fundamental critique of the neoclassical theory of the market economy. Much of his current work focuses on how the financialization of the U.S. industrial corporation, manifested in massive distributions of corporate cash to shareholders and the explosion of stock-based executive pay, results in employment instability and income inequity, while undermining the innovative capability of the U.S. economy. He also conducts cross-national comparative research on the social conditions that enable or proscribe innovative enterprise, focusing in particular on the economies of Britain, Japan, and China as well as the United States.

William K. Linvill

William Thomas Lockwood

William Lockridge

Entertainment promoter

William Leigh Williamson Eyre (17 March 1841 – 25 October 1914) was an English mycologist and naturalist.

William Leigh Brent

William Leader Maberly

William Lawrence Hoskins

William Lewis Herndon

William Lawrence House (disambiguation)

William Lockhart of Lee

The William Leaton House is a property in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, that dates from c.1802 and that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It has also been known as Grassland. It includes Central passage plan and other architecture.The property was covered in a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources.

William Legge, 4th Earl of Dartmouth

William Lawrence (biologist)

William Lea

William Lawrence Murphy

William Lewis (September 1860 – 6 May 1916) was an English football referee, director, secretary and manager, active in the early 20th century. He managed Brentford and Chelsea, the latter in the Football League.

William Levi Johnson, Sr.

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

William Lewis & Son Co.

William Lloyd Prosser

Hon. William Lithgow (c. 1715 – December 20, 1798) was a judge for the Court of Common Pleas of Lincoln County, when Maine was under the jurisdiction of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Lithgow also served in the Massachusetts Bay Colonial Militia for twenty years before and during the French and Indian War.

William Lockwood (rower)

William Lloyd (councilor)

William Lenn (also Lenne or de Lynn; died 1373) was a medieval Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Worcester. The name Lenn was the old name for Lynn in Norfolk.Lenn went to Rome in his early life and became a doctor of canon law. He was subsequently made an auditor of causes, in the holy court, by Pope Urban V.In 1356 Lenn was made dean of Chichester Cathedral, then after the death of Bishop Stratford he was selected for the see of Chichester on 16 May 1362, and was consecrated about 18 August 1362.Lenn's tenure at Chichester was quite short, but during that time he managed to get into a quarrel with the earl of Arundel, Stephens suggests that it was probably a dispute over land. It seems that the bishop procured a citation from Pope Urban V ordering the earl to appear before a court, in Rome, to answer the charges laid against him. The earl treated the summons with contempt and refused to go. What the bishop was trying to do was seen as a violation of both the Statute of Praemunire and the canon law of England. The King, Edward III, was angry at the insult and summoned the bishop to attend the king's court, to account for his actions. The bishop, however, was in Rome at the time but he was convicted in his absence, and all his goods and chattels seized, by the crown.Lenn was translated to the see of Worcester on 11 October 1368 He died of a stroke, in that office on 18 November 1373, as he mounted a horse to go to London to attend Parliament.

William Leete Stone

Roman Catholicpriest

William Leffingwell

William Lele

William Lawson (c.1554–1635) was an English cleric, known as a writer on gardening.

William Leaton House

William Levinz

William Linnæus Gardner

William Lewis Moody Sr.

The Earl Granville

William Lewis

William Lay Thompson

William Litterer

William Lofland Dudley

William Lawson (priest)

William Lethbridge (1825–1901) was a lawyer in England. When bookseller W H Smith owner William Henry Smith II decided to become involved in politics in 1864, he enlisted Lethbridge as a managing partner. He sat for a portrait by Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) in 1882 (see illustration).Lethbridge was the first president of North Western Coal and Navigation Company, a mining company based out of Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1882. The city of Lethbridge was named after him by Alexander Tilloch Galt in an effort to convince him to invest in the new company. However, Lethbridge never came to Canada.

William Lester (director)

William Livingstone House

William Lockhart (22 August 1820 – 15 May 1892) was an English Roman Catholic priest; the first of the Tractarian Movement to convert from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism.

William P. Lonc (May 5, 1930 – November 27, 2014) was a professor emeritus of physics at Saint Mary's University in Canada and also the co-translator and co-editor of the series The Jesuit Relations, working assiduously in translating over 64 historical works by Lucien Campeau and other French Canadian Jesuit sources into English.

William Lewis (Australian politician)

William Prosser

William Leighton Carss, (February 15, 1865 – May 31, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in Pella, Marion County, Iowa and subsequently moved with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1867. There he attended the public schools, studied civil and mechanical engineering and followed that profession for a number of years. He moved to St. Louis County, Minnesota in 1893 and settled in Proctor where he found work as a locomotive engineer and became a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Carss was elected as a Farmer-Labor candidate to the 66th congress (March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1921) from Minnesota's 8th congressional district.Carss was fond of British literature, reciting selections from Shakespeare, Carlyle and Burns by heart. He sponsored pro-labor legislation during his first term, supporting old age pensions (anticipating the Social Security system), women's rights and (to the dismay of some of his supporters) the Prohibition Amendment.Carss was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection as a Democrat in 1920 to the 67th congress and for election in 1922 to the 68th congress. He was elected on the Farmer-Labor ticket to the 69th and 70th congresses (March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1929); but was defeated for reelection in 1928 to the 71st congress. Carss moved to Duluth in 1929 where he resumed his position as a locomotive engineer at Proctor. He was unsuccessful in his 1930 bid for election to the 72nd congress. He died in Duluth on May 31, 1931 and was interred in Oneota Cemetery.

Colonel William Lewis Moody Sr. (May 19, 1828 – July 17, 1920) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Moody dynasty in Galveston, Texas. He participated in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. On January 19, 1860, he married Pherabe Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bradley. He is noted for persuading federal and local government to dredge Galveston's harbor, which led to Galveston becoming a prominent shipping port of the 19th century. He was survived by his son, William Lewis Moody Jr.

William Lawrence Saunders (engineer)

William Leman

William Legge (disambiguation)

William Lipscomb (religion)

William Lennie

Secretary of State for the Southern Department

William Kennett Loftus (13 November 1820, Linton, Kent – 27 November 1858, at sea) was a British geologist, naturalist, explorer and archaeological excavator. He discovered the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk in 1849.

William Layman

William Lehman

William Loft

William Levinz (25 July 1625 – 3 March 1698), doctor of medicine and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University, was President of St John's College, Oxford from 1673 until 1698.

William Leroy "Roy" LaFollette Jr

William Walter Legge

William Leake Terry

William LeBaron

William John Lloyd (2 December 1778 – 29 July 1815) was a British Army officer wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18 1815.HE was the son of Major John Lloyd, of the 46th Regiment of Foot, who had been aide-de-camp to General Sir Henry Clinton during the American War of Independence, and Corbetta, daughter of the Venerable George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen.Lloyd joined the Royal Artillery as a second-lieutenant on 6 March 1795. He was promoted to first-lieutenant on 18 June 1796; to captain-lieutenant on 12 September 1803; to second-captain on 19 July 1804; to captain on 22 October 1806 and to brevet major on 4 June 1814.After commanding his eponymous brigade at the Battle of Waterloo, Lloyd died in Brussels on 29 July 1815 as a result wounds received in the battle.His name is inscribed on a plaque to the dead of the artillery inside St. Joseph's Church in Waterloo.Lloyd is one of the soldiers commemorated on the British Waterloo Campaign Monument in Brussels Cemetery, although he was 37 at the time of his death, not 35 as inscribed.

William Le Roy Emmet (July 10, 1859 – September 26, 1941) was an electrical engineer who made major contributions to alternating current power systems including the design of large rotary converters.

William Lofland Dudley (April 16, 1859 – September 8, 1914) was an American chemistry professor at both the University of Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he was appointed dean of its medical department. He was also once vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was notably director of affairs on the Tennessee Centennial Exposition executive committee.Early in Dudley's career, he and John Holland developed a method for refining iridium that paved the way for commercial applications of the metal. Dudley also discovered that carbon monoxide was a major injurious component of tobacco smoke; and was one of the first to publish the physiological effects of X-rays with fellow Vanderbilt professor John Daniel.He was instrumental in the establishment of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the first Southern athletics conference and forerunner of the Southern and Southeastern Conferences. Dudley was a part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) executive and football rules committees. Known as the "father of Vanderbilt football" and the "father of Southern football," he was the namesake of Dudley Field (the first dedicated Southern college football stadium).

William Leaney

William Lawrence (Republician politician)

William Legge

William Lindsay Osteen, Jr.

Vice-Admiral William Spencer Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville, (11 July 1880 – 25 June 1953), styled The Honourable William Leveson-Gower until 1939, was a British naval commander and governor from the Leveson-Gower family.

President ofTufts College

William Levins Memorial Cup

William Livingston Hatchwell Sinclair-Burgess

William Leonard Hunt

William Lay Thompson was an American ornithologist, naturalist and educator. He was Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Wayne State University, an expert on bird vocalizations, past President of the Michigan Audubon Society, and past Editor of the Jack Pine Warbler.

William Logan (December 8, 1776 – August 8, 1822) was a United States Senator from Kentucky.Born within the fort at Harrodsburg, Logan spent his early childhood in St. Asaphs Fort, receiving private instruction from his parents and tutors. He moved to Shelby County about 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced.

William Lawler

William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon

William "Billy" Little ((1911-01-26)26 January 1911 – (2004-12-17)17 December 2004) was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s and 1940s. He played at representative level for England, and Cumberland, and at club level for Barrow, as a scrum-half, i.e. number 7.

William Leroy LaFollette, Jr

William Leveson-Gower, 4th Earl Granville

William Lockhart, M.D.

Hon. William Lithgow

William Lawrence Keating

William Lethbridge

William Leonard Shipp

William Lithgow (industrialist)

William Lefevre was a department store located in Canterbury, and is now home to Debenhams.

William Leslie (disambiguation)

William Le Roy Emmet

William Thomas Lockwood (26 June 1868 – 29 August 1953) was an Australian cricketer who played a single first-class match for Western Australia during the 1898–99 season.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Lockwood emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, sometime in the late 19th century. In grade cricket matches, he played for the West Perth Cricket Club, where he was a leading batsman.

William Law (Mormonism)

William Litterer (1834–1917) was an American Democratic politician. He served as the Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1890 to 1891.

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William Leigh, Sr.

William Leopold Essex (February 8, 1886 – February 26, 1959) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy. He was born in Piermont, New York to William Essex and Elizabeth Looser Essex. Following education at Columbia University and the General Theological Seminary, he was ordained deacon in 1910 and priest in 1911. Essex married Charlotte J. Nason in 1914. He was curate at Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, and rector at St. Paul's Church, Peoria from 1925 to 1936. He served as diocesan bishop from 1936 to 1958.

real estate developer

William L. Linegar (1871 – 1951) was a cooper, union leader and politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's West in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1924 to 1928.Linegar was born in St. John's. Sometime after 1906, he became president of the Cooper's Union. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly as a Workingmen's Party candidate in 1919. He was defeated in a subsequent by-election and again in 1923 before being elected in 1924 as a Liberal-Conservative.

William Lloyd (minister)

William Douglas Leitch (16 December 1863 – 24 May 1943 ), born in Hobart to Scottish immigrants John Leitch and Jean McCrone, was a Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator. Leitch was an employee and later board of directors member of Henry Jones's IXL jam manufacturing business; taking his first job at the company at the age of only ten and working there until his death, he gave almost seventy years continuous service.In his youth Leitch was a highly regarded Australian rules football player at the Railway Football Club. In later life he was a patron of Australian rules football in Tasmania, and was a long-time Tasmanian delegate to the Australian National Football Council. The William Leitch Medal for the fairest and best player in the Tasmanian Australian National Football League was named in his honour.

William Lewis Stoughton

William Lemuel Boyd

William Lea (May 17, 1805 – December 28, 1876) was a member of a prominent flour milling family in Wilmington, Delaware, who was largely responsible for the development of the Brandywine Mills to their place of importance.Lea was born to Thomas Lea (1757-1794) and Sarah Tatnall (eldest daughter of Joseph Tatnall) in a house at 1901 Market Street in Wilmington. He was a descendant of John Lea, a prominent Quaker minister from England, who came to America with William Penn on his second voyage. He was the father of Preston Lea, Governor of Delaware from 1905 to 1908.Lea was first employed with his father in the firm of Tatnall and Lea, founded in the 1760s on the north bank on the Brandywine Creek by his father and grandfather, and then at Manayunk, Pennsylvania; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Terre Haute, Indiana. He was married to Jane Scott Lovett on the October 18, 1836. He returned to his old home in Wilmington in 1837 and became one of the proprietors of the Brandywine Mills. The couple had 11 children together, William (b. 1834), Esther (b. 1837), Henry (b. 1839), Preston (b. 1841), Mary (b. 1846), Sarah (1848-1848), Anna (b. 1849), Edward (1852-1867), Alice (1854-1857), Thomas (1856-1859), and Jane (b. 1860). In 1864, the firm was renamed William Lea and Sons when Lea brought his sons, Henry and Preston, into the business.Besides operating the flour mills, Lea was for many years a director in the Union National Bank of Wilmington, and was also a director in the Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery Company. He was greatly interested in the improvement of Brandywine Village, in which he lived, and favored its annexation to the city of Wilmington as the Ninth Ward.The Superfine Lane Condominiums (named for the grade of flour produced by the Quaker millers) were built in 1984 and incorporated the foundations of the old William Lea and Sons flour mills, which continued to operate 1923.

William Leonard (fl. 1597)

Lawyer and Financier

William Lindsley

William Leitch (footballer)

William Lawrence (7th Bishop of Massachusetts)

William Lonc

William Lenn

William Lockhart (priest)

Politician

William Lister (disambiguation)

Pilot

William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr (5 August 1837 – 27 August 1914), known as Sir William Lewis, 1st Baronet, from 1896 to 1911, was a Welsh coal mining magnate.

William Little Lee (February 25, 1821 – May 28, 1857) was an American lawyer who became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Kingdom of Hawaii.

William Lazonick

William Livens

William Jaird Levitt

William Leuschner

William Lippert

William B. Little

William Leonard (British politician)

William Joseph Martin Jr.

William Lock (disambiguation)

William Levett

William Lockwood (Australian cricketer)

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William Leete Stone (20 April 1792 New Paltz, New York (or 1793 Esopus, New York) – 15 August 1844 Saratoga Springs, New York), known as Colonel Stone, was an influential journalist, publisher, author, and public official in New York City. His name also appears as "Leet".

William Leonard (14 February 1887 – 14 October 1969) was a Labour Co-operative politician in Scotland. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow St. Rollox from 1931 to 1950.The St. Rollox constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election. He contested the new Glasgow Woodside constituency, where he lost by 1,109 votes to the Unionist Party candidate. He did not stand in 1951.

William Lewin or Lewyn (died 15 April 1598) of London and Otterden, Kent, was a college fellow, tutor, ecclesiastical lawyer, and judge. He also served three times as a member of parliament for Rochester.

William L. Dewart

William Theodore Link (born December 15, 1933) is an American film and television screenwriter and producer who often worked in collaboration with Richard Levinson.

William Lawrence Hoskins was a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was elected in 1870 and 1871. Hoskins was born on December 24, 1829 in North East, Pennsylvania.

William Littlewood was an aeronautical engineer noted for his contributions to the design and operational requirements of transport aircraft. He graduated from Cornell University in 1920 and was the only person to preside over both SAE and AIAA, two of the main aerospace professional organizations. He won the Wright Brothers Medal in 1935 for a paper on the operational requirements of transports and is memorialized by the SAE "William Littlewood Memorial Lecture", and was a recipient of Daniel Guggenheim Medal in 1958 For leadership and continuous personal participation over a quarter of a century in developing the equipment and operating techniques of air transport.

William Lee also variously known as William Smith and William Pantoney until 1816 (1 April 1794 – 18 November 1870) was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1860.

William Lewis (1714 - 1781)

William Leggett (USA)

William Lewis Dewart (June 21, 1821 – April 19, 1888) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William Little (rugby league, born 1911)

William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts

William Linley (1771–1835) was one of seven musical siblings born to Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson.

William Frederic Lawrence (29 December 1844 – 15 January 1935) was a British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1906.He was the eldest son of the Rev. Charles Washington Lawrence of Liverpool. He went to Eton College, and received a B.A. from Christ Church, Oxford in 1867 and an M.A. in 1872. He began the study of law at Lincoln's Inn in 1867 and was called to the bar in 1871. He was a Justice of the Peace of Wiltshire.Lawrence was first elected to Parliament in the 1885 general election for the new constituency of Liverpool Abercromby. He held the seat in the next four general elections. In the 1906 general election, he lost the seat by 199 votes to the Liberal candidate J. E. B. Seely. He died in Salisbury aged 90.

William Loft (born Seaford, Sussex 14 September 1803 - died Grimsby 15 December 1887) was a farmer and one time steeplechase rider best remembered for his victory in the 1845 Grand National riding Cure-All.In 1843 Loft purchased the horse Cure-All at Horncastle fair and after running impressively at Lincoln he was approached by William Sterling-Crawford with an offer to lease the horse to run as his nominee in the forthcoming 1845 Grand National.

The poet William Livingston (1808–1870) is also known by his family’s original Gaelic language surname as Uilleam Macdhunleibhe. Born to his family’s lore in Islay in the Scottish Highlands, Livingston was a hyper patriotic Gaelic author of epic poetry. An autodidact, he was a tailor by trade, yet he taught himself the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French and Welsh languages and during his travels through the Scottish lowlands, collected an extensive knowledge of the Scottish nation’s topography, place-names and folklore, eventually, settling in the west central lowlands' Glasgow. It is also said by Koch that William Livingston presented in his poetry “a stark view of an Islay in which the human world has been all but banished from the natural landscape.” Examples of William Livingston’s work may be viewed in the Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry.

William Leighton Carss, (February 15, 1865 – May 31, 1931) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in Pella, Marion County, Iowa and subsequently moved with his parents to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1867. There he attended the public schools, studied civil and mechanical engineering and followed that profession for a number of years. He moved to St.

William Lawson

The Athlete of the World

William Lewis is a former Canadian figure skater. He was the 1949 and 1952 silver and 1950-51 national bronze medalist.

William Leahy (DCM)

Colonel

William Lewis (football)

Member of ParliamentforLiverpool Abercromby

Insurance and banking executive

William Lewis Dayton Jr.

William Lefevre

William Lee (Australian politician)

William Lele was the member of Parliament for Great Grimsby in 1406.

William Lawrence Chaplin

William Leadbetter Calderwood

William Leonard Grayden

William Leroy LaFollette, Jr.

William Link

William LeSassier (November 6, 1948 – May 13, 2003) was an American herbalist and acupuncturist. He developed William’s Triune System of Formulation, which continues to be taught by herbalists, including David Winston, who has significantly expanded LeSassier's materia medica. LeSassier taught and inspired many of the major herbalists currently practicing in the United States, including Matthew Wood, David Winston, Margi Flynt, Kerry Adams and Dina Falconi, and his influence is significant. His classes were taped and continue to influence herbal medicine in the United States.

William Lewis Moody Jr. (January 25, 1865 – July 21, 1954) was an American financier and entrepreneur from Galveston, Texas, who founded a private bank, an insurance company, and one of the largest charitable foundations in the United States. Moody was active in the day-to-day operations of his companies until two days before his death.

William Leahy (disambiguation)

William Learned Marcy Pendleton (February 19, 1865 – 1947) was a French-born painter, classified as a member of the American School.

William Lightfoot Price

William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr

William Lewin (died 1598)

William Leach (cricketer)

William Lee

William Lawley Jr.

William Richard LeFanu FSA (9 July 1904 – 1 April 1995) was an Irish librarian who worked for almost forty years as librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.He was born in Ireland, the son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu and his wife Florence Sophia Mabel (née Sullivan). He was educated in England at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.In 1930 he married the composer Elizabeth Maconchy (later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy); they had two daughters, Elizabeth Anna (known as Anna, born 1939) and Nicola LeFanu (born 1947).

William Lewis (disambiguation)

William Lewis Hughes

The poet William Livingston (1808–1870) is also known by his family’s original Gaelic language surname as Uilleam Macdhunleibhe. Born to his family’s lore in Islay in the Scottish Highlands, Livingston was a hyper patriotic Gaelic author of epic poetry.

William Lea (May 17, 1805 – December 28, 1876) was a member of a prominent flour milling family in Wilmington, Delaware, who was largely responsible for the development of the Brandywine Mills to their place of importance.Lea was born to Thomas Lea (1757-1794) and Sarah Tatnall (eldest daughter of Joseph Tatnall) in a house at 1901 Market Street in Wilmington. He was a descendant of John Lea, a prominent Quaker minister from England, who came to America with William Penn on his second voyage.

William Lloyd Prosser (March 15, 1898 – 1972) was the Dean of the College of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. Prosser authored several editions of Prosser on Torts, universally recognized as the leading work on the subject of tort law for a generation. It is still widely used today, now known as Prosser and Keeton on Torts, 5th edition. Furthermore, in the 1950s, Dean Prosser became Reporter for the Second Restatement of Torts.

Bishop of Worcester

William Leggett (disambiguation)

The Great Farini

William Lewis Dewart

William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth (14 October 1672–15 December 1750) was Lord Privy Seal from 1713 to 1714.

William Loeb (disambiguation)

William Linley

William Lithgow, Auditor General of New South Wales

William Loftus (MP)

William Leadbetter Calderwood FRSE (1865–1950) was a Scottish marine biologist. He served as Director of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory in Plymouth. He was the author of several authoritative works on marine biology. He was a specialist on the life and biology of the salmon.

William Learned Marcy Pendleton

William Leader Maberly (1798–1885) spent most of his life as a British army officer and Whig politician.

William Lloyd Warner

William Lethbridge (1825–1901) was a lawyer in England. When bookseller W H Smith owner William Henry Smith II decided to become involved in politics in 1864, he enlisted Lethbridge as a managing partner. He sat for a portrait by Frederick Sandys (1829-1904) in 1882 (see illustration).Lethbridge was the first president of North Western Coal and Navigation Company, a mining company based out of Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1882.

William Lenoir Middle School

William Le Scrope

William Leigh Brent— (1784–1848) was a lawyer and plantation owner in Maryland and Louisiana, and three-term U.S. Representative representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district.

William Lesick (10 June 1923 – 9 September 2011) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a pharmacist by career.Lesick was born in Spedden, Alberta. He was elected at the Edmonton East electoral district in the 1984 federal election, thus he served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament. Lesick was defeated at the same riding in the 1988 federal election by Ross Harvey of the New Democratic Party.He died in 2011 aged 88.

William Spencer Leveson-Gower

William Leftwich Goggin

William Levitt

William Lennox Mills

William Lewis JP (23 April 1818 – 12 April 1895) was a businessman and politician in South Australia.

William Lawrence, Sir Bragg

William Lithgow (judge)

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William Lochhead

William Lennox (disambiguation)

William Linegar

William Thomas Lockwood (26 June 1868 – 29 August 1953) was an Australian cricketer who played a single first-class match for Western Australia during the 1898–99 season.Born in Geelong, Victoria, Lockwood emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, sometime in the late 19th century. In grade cricket matches, he played for the West Perth Cricket Club, where he was a leading batsman. Lockwood's only match at first-class level came against South Australia, during its tour of Western Australia at the end of the 1898–99 season. In the match, played at the WACA Ground in early April 1899, Lockwood opened the batting with Arthur Hoskings in both innings, recording a duck in the first innings and 21 runs in the second innings. In the first innings, he was particularly troubled by the bowling of future Test cricketer Joe Travers, who eventually had him caught at point by Fred Hack. Lockwood's second innings produced a notable incident. He hit a ball from Robert Homburg to square leg and ran five runs, and then completed another two runs from an overthrow. He and Hoskings thus ran seven runs off a single ball, in total combining for a 39-run opening partnership before Lockwood was dismissed by Victor Hugo.Although not playing at state level again, Lockwood remained involved in cricket well into the early decades of the 1900s, and played in a veterans' match as late as April 1930, which included former teammate Ted Bishop. He died at the Hawthorn Hospital, in Mount Hawthorn (a suburb of Perth), in August 1953.

F. William Lawvere

William Richard LeFanu FSA (9 July 1904 – 1 April 1995) was an Irish librarian who worked for almost forty years as librarian at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.He was born in Ireland, the son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu and his wife Florence Sophia Mabel (née Sullivan).

William Leopold Essex (February 8, 1886 – February 26, 1959) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy. He was born in Piermont, New York to William Essex and Elizabeth Looser Essex. Following education at Columbia University and the General Theological Seminary, he was ordained deacon in 1910 and priest in 1911. Essex married Charlotte J. Nason in 1914. He was curate at Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island, and rector at St. Paul's Church, Peoria from 1925 to 1936.

William Lawvere

William Linfoot

William Lenthall (died 1702) was the member of Parliament for Wallingford in October 1679 and Cricklade in 1681.

Not to be confused with the rugby league footballer of the 1930s for England, and Barrow, William "Billy" LittleWilliam "Billy" B. Little was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and 1910s. He played at representative level for England, Cumberland, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Halifax, as a fullback, i.e. number 1.

William Leake (disambiguation)

William Lewis (born October 31, 1827 in Scotland) was an American merchant and politician from New York.

William L. Lewis (born November 23, 1931, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American operatic tenor and academic.

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William Lewis Moody, Jr.

William Walter Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth (12 August 1823 – 4 August 1891), styled Viscount Lewisham until 1853, was a British peer and Conservative politician.

William Lescaze

William Leigh (Dean of Hereford)

William Lewis (figure skater)

William Lockwood

William Lazonick (born in Toronto, Canada, on June 8, 1945) is an economist who studies innovation and competition in the global economy. His research seeks to understand how, on the basis of innovative enterprise, a national economy can achieve stable and equitable economic growth.

William Leavers MacKennal

William Lawrence Cullen

William Levy Gutierrez

William Lloyd (politician)

William Locker (Royal Navy)

William Loft (born Seaford, Sussex 14 September 1803 - died Grimsby 15 December 1887) was a farmer and one time steeplechase rider best remembered for his victory in the 1845 Grand National riding Cure-All.In 1843 Loft purchased the horse Cure-All at Horncastle fair and after running impressively at Lincoln he was approached by William Sterling-Crawford with an offer to lease the horse to run as his nominee in the forthcoming 1845 Grand National. Loft agreed on condition that he be allowed to ride the horse himself.Loft was the second son of the Grimsby M.P. John Henry Loft and farmed on the estate inherited by his brother from his father.

William Lionel Clause (7 May 1887 – 9 September 1946) was an English artist.

William Leete Stone Sr.

William Frederic Lawrence

William Logan (December 8, 1776 – August 8, 1822) was a United States Senator from Kentucky.Born within the fort at Harrodsburg, Logan spent his early childhood in St. Asaphs Fort, receiving private instruction from his parents and tutors. He moved to Shelby County about 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He was delegate to Kentucky's constitutional convention in 1799 and worked as a state commissioner in siting the new Barren County's seat of government (at Glasgow, a new settlement probably named for the Scottish hometown of Logan's father) the same year.Logan was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1803 to 1806 and again in 1808, and served as speaker two terms. He was a judge of the court of appeals from 1808 to 1812. He was also a presidential elector in 1808, 1812, and 1816. Logan was elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1819 to May 28, 1820 when he resigned to run for Governor in 1820. (He did not succeed, instead serving as a commissioner of the Kentucky River Company.) Logan died at his residence in Shelby County and was interred in the Logan family burial ground near Shelbyville.

William Lloyd Murdoch

William Lawrence (Conservative politician)

William Joseph Martin Jr. was the tenth president of Davidson College, being installed as president in 1912. Martin, the son of a Confederate veteran who was also a professor at Davidson, graduated from Davidson in 1888.

William Lloyd-Webber

William Little (English surgeon)

William Douglas Leitch (16 December 1863 – 24 May 1943 ), born in Hobart to Scottish immigrants John Leitch and Jean McCrone, was a Tasmanian footballer, businessman and sports administrator.

William Leftwich

Commander William Lewis Herndon (25 October 1813 – 12 September 1857) was one of the United States Navy's outstanding explorers and seamen. In 1851 he led a United States expedition to the Valley of the Amazon, and prepared a report published in 1854 and distributed widely as Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.He was noted especially for ensuring the rescue of 152 women and children when commanding the commercial mail steamer Central America in September 1857.

William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth

Commander William Lewis Herndon (25 October 1813 – 12 September 1857) was one of the United States Navy's outstanding explorers and seamen. In 1851 he led a United States expedition to the Valley of the Amazon, and prepared a report published in 1854 and distributed widely as Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon.He was noted especially for ensuring the rescue of 152 women and children when commanding the commercial mail steamer Central America in September 1857. During a three-day hurricane off the coast of North Carolina, the ship lost power. Herndon arranged for getting some women and children safely off the ship to another vessel. With no way to save the ship, Herndon chose to stay with more than 400 passengers and crew who drowned as the ship sank off Cape Hatteras on September 12. It was the largest loss of life in a commercial ship disaster in United States history.Two years later his daughter Ellen Lewis Herndon married Chester A. Arthur, the future U.S. President.

William Littlewood

William Le Roy

William Leighton Carss

William Joseph Martin Jr. was the tenth president of Davidson College, being installed as president in 1912. Martin, the son of a Confederate veteran who was also a professor at Davidson, graduated from Davidson in 1888. After receiving advanced degrees from the University of Virginia and further instruction at Johns Hopkins University, Martin eventually found his way back to Davidson as a chemistry professor.As president, Martin steered the College through World War I, where many students left college to fight, by bringing a Student Army Training Corps program to campus. Also, the main academic building, Chambers Building, burned down but Martin was able to secure funding to replace the building. Martin also established a relationship with the Duke Endowment, a relationship that exists still today.After his retirement, Martin left to work in the PCUSA training school, but returned to Davidson to teach.The main chemistry building at Davidson is named in his honor.

William Latham (computer scientist)

William Lodge (football coach)

William John Lloyd (2 December 1778 – 29 July 1815) was a British Army officer wounded at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18 1815.HE was the son of Major John Lloyd, of the 46th Regiment of Foot, who had been aide-de-camp to General Sir Henry Clinton during the American War of Independence, and Corbetta, daughter of the Venerable George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen.Lloyd joined the Royal Artillery as a second-lieutenant on 6 March 1795.

Member ofLegislative Council of New South Wales

William Lenn (also Lenne or de Lynn; died 1373) was a medieval Bishop of Chichester and Bishop of Worcester. The name Lenn was the old name for Lynn in Norfolk.Lenn went to Rome in his early life and became a doctor of canon law.

William Le Baron

William LeFanu

William Little

William Logan (Kentuckian)

William Lea (priest)

The Colonel

William Latham (born 1961) is a British computer artist, most known as the creator of the Organic Art product as well as for creating album covers and artwork for the dance group The Shamen. Latham is the founder of the company Computer Artworks which released the Organic Art product through Time Warner Interactive. Latham has authored a book called Evolutionary Art and Computers together with Stephen Todd, published 1992, based on their work at the IBM(UK) Scientific Centre in Winchester, generating 3-d computer models or organic life forms, using genetic algorithm based techniques to mutate base forms into artistic creations. Since 2007, Latham has been Professor of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London.

William Le Baron Putnam

William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth

William Lewis (tenor)

William Leach

William Leslie (died 1513), 3rd Earl of Rothes, was the son of Andrew Leslie, Master of Rothes, and Marjory (also known as Elizabeth) Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness. He succeeded his elder brother George as Earl in 1513.As George had tried to sell the family lands without royal permission William was trying to recover his rights, especially over the Barony centred on Ballinbreich Castle. However, he was killed at the battle of Flodden.William married Margaret Balfour, his heir was George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes. Their other children included John Leslie of Parkhill who was captured at the battle of Solway Moss, and James Leslie, Parson of Rothes.

William L. Linegar (1871 – 1951) was a cooper, union leader and politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's West in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1924 to 1928.Linegar was born in St. John's. Sometime after 1906, he became president of the Cooper's Union. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly as a Workingmen's Party candidate in 1919. He was defeated in a subsequent by-election and again in 1923 before being elected in 1924 as a Liberal-Conservative. In 1928, Linegar was named to the Board of Liquor Control. He became president of the Cooper's Union again in 1938.

William Livingston (poet)

William LeVeque

William LeSassier (November 6, 1948 – May 13, 2003) was an American herbalist and acupuncturist. He developed William’s Triune System of Formulation, which continues to be taught by herbalists, including David Winston, who has significantly expanded LeSassier's materia medica. LeSassier taught and inspired many of the major herbalists currently practicing in the United States, including Matthew Wood, David Winston, Margi Flynt, Kerry Adams and Dina Falconi, and his influence is significant.

William Lofland Dudley (April 16, 1859 – September 8, 1914) was an American chemistry professor at both the University of Cincinnati and Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he was appointed dean of its medical department.

William Lawson (d. 1848)

William Lenthall (died 1702)

William Lloyd (British Army officer)

William Leicester

William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth

William Leach (canoer)