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William Alexander Weir William Alexander Weir (1858-10-15 – 1929-10-22) was a Quebec lawyer, politician, and judge. He was the MLA for Argenteuil in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1903–1910, held several ministries, and helped rewrite several provincial Codes.
William Alfred Savage William Alfred Savage (30 October 1912-28 March 1942) 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 Allan (classicist) William Allan is a distinguished Scottish classicist specializing in Greek epic and tragedy, particularly the plays of Euripides. He has published The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford University Press, 2000; paperback edn.
William Allan (painter) Sir William Allan (1782 – 1850) was a distinguished Scottish historical painter, born at Edinburgh, many of his paintings being on national subjects. William Allan travelled throughout Russia from 1805 to 1814, and he spend much time especially in the Partitioned Poland.
William Allan Reid William Allan Reid (11 October 1865 – 17 March 1952) was a British Conservative Party politician, who served as one of the two Members of Parliament for Derby from the 1931 general election until the 1945 general election.
William Alland William Alland (March 4, 1916 - November 11, 1997) was an actor, producer, writer and director of science fiction and western films. In his early 20's, he arrived in Manhattan and took courses at the Henry Street Settlement House, where he met Orson Welles.
William Allen (cricketer) William Reginald Allen {born April 14, 1893 in Sharlston, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England and died October 14, 1950, Normanton, Yorkshire, England) was an English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.
William Allen (Quaker) William Allen FRS, FLS (August 29, 1770 – September 30, 1843) was was an English Quaker, scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth century England.
William Allen Egan William Allen Egan (October 8, 1914–May 6, 1984) was an American Democratic politician. He served as the first Governor of the State of Alaska from January 3, 1959 to 1966, and elected to a second term from 1970 to 1974.
William Allen Fuller William Allen Fuller (April 15, 1836 – December 28, 1905) was a conductor on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the American Civil War era. He was most noted for his role in the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase, a daring espionage mission and raid conducted by non-uniformed personnel of the Union Army in northern Georgia.
William Allen Harper William Allen Harper was a Texas Christian University medical student who, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, discovered a large piece of President Kennedy's skull bone in the grass to the left of President Kennedy and 117' forward of his location when he was first shot in the head.
William Allison White William Allison White, VC, TD (19 October 1894 – 13 September 1974) 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 Allot William Allot was a Catholic student of the University of Cambridge and retired to Louvain on the accession of Elizabeth (1558), was ordained priest there, but soon returned to England. He was highly esteemed by Mary Queen of Scots, whom he frequently visited in her prison, suffered imprisonment for his faith, and was banished.
William Aloisio William "Smokes" Aloisio was a Chicago mobster and hitman for the Chicago Outfit. A former member of the Forty-Two Gang, his arrest record dates back as early as 1928 and served a 5 year prison sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary for aiding and abbetting evasion of the wartime draft.
William Alvin Howard William Alvin Howard is a proof theorist most well-known for his work demonstrating formal similarity between intuitionistic logic and the typed lambda-calculus that has come to be known as the Curry-Howard correspondence. He has also been active in the theory of proof-theoretic ordinals.
William Ames William Ames, (Latin: Guilielmus Amesius) (1576 – November 14, 1633) was an English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the Calvinists and the Arminians.
William Amey William Amey (VC, MM) (5 March 1881 - 28 May 1940) 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 Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst GCH (1773 - 1857), was Governor-General of India. He was the nephew of Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, and succeeded to his title in 1797 by the remainder provided when the letters patent was renewed in 1788.
William Anderson (VC) William Anderson (1885 - 13 March 1915) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Anderson Bloomfield William Anderson Bloomfield (30 January 1873-12 May 1954) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Anderson Hatfield In the infamous American Hatfield-McCoy feud, William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield (September 9, 1839–January 6, 1921) was the patriarch of the Hatfield clan. Devil Anse himself survived the feud, and agreed to end the feud in 1891.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Clark Library), the oldest building and one of the twelve libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles, is one of the most comprehensive rare books and manuscripts libraries in the United States, with particular strengths in English literature and history (1641-1800), Oscar Wilde, and fine printing. It is located about thirteen miles from UCLA, in the West Adams District of Los Angeles north of the University of Southern California.
William Angus William Angus (28 February 1888 - 14 June 1959) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Angus Knight William Angus Knight (1836-1916) was a British writer, born at Modrington, Scotland, and educated at the University of Edinburgh. From 1876 to 1902 he was professor of moral philosophy in the University of St.
William Antonio Zeppeli William Antonio Zeppeli is a fictional character from the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Zeppeli was on a ship with a crew studying Aztec ruins when he was younger when his father put on the mask and killed everyone in the crew but his son.
William Antrobus Griesbach William Antrobus Griesbach CMG DSO (January 3 1878 - January 21 1945) was a Canadian politician and was an alderman of Edmonton, Alberta from 1905 to 1906 and Mayor of Edmonton in 1907. He was born in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan as the son of a Northwest Mounted Police officer.
William Appleman Williams William Appleman Williams (1921–1990) was one of the 20th century's most prominent historians of American diplomacy. His major body of writings was published while he was on the faculty of the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
William Arbuthnott, 12th Viscount of Arbuthnott William Arbuthnott, 12th Viscount of Arbuthnott, was born in Kincardineshire on 24 October 1849, the son of John Arbuthnott, 9th Viscount of Arbuthnott. He succeeded his brother, David Arbuthnott, 11th Viscount of Arbuthnott in 1914.
William Archibald Dunning William Archibald Dunning (1857-1922) was an American historian who founded the Dunning School of Reconstruction historiography at Columbia University. He had there graduated in 1881, and spent four years in postgraduate work.
William Archibald Spooner William Archibald Spooner (July 22, 1844–August 29, 1930) was educated at Oswestry School and New College, Oxford, the first non-Wykehamist to be so, and became an Anglican priest and a scholar. He was ordained deacon in 1872 and priest in 1875.
William Armstrong (artist) William Armstrong was among the first professional artists in Toronto. A number of his watercolour landscapes of the Great Lakes may be found in collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada and the Thunder Bay Historical Museum.
William Armstrong Percy, III William Armstrong Percy, III, (born 10 December, 1933) is a professor, historian, encyclopedist, and gay activist. He is a cousin of the Catholic novelist and philosopher Walker Percy and of their “Uncle Will,” William Alexander Percy (gay lawyer, poet, and author of the family history and autobiographical Lanterns on the Levee).
William Arnold (architect) William Arnold (architect) (flourished 1595-1637) was an important master mason in Somerset little is known about him, but he is known to have been living in Charlton Musgrove near Wincanton in 1595 where he was church warden. His first known commission was for the design of Montacute House in c1598, this is one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in the country, it was designed for Sir Edward Phelips.
William Arthur Lewis Sir William Arthur Lewis (January 23, 1915 – June 15, 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist well known for his contributions in the field of economic development. In 1979 he won the Nobel Prize in Economics, becoming the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in a category other than peace.
William Arthur McCrae Bruce William Arthur McCrae Bruce (15 June 1890-19 December 1914) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Ashcroft William Ashcroft was a late 19th Century British artist best known for his color sketches of sunsets over England in the years after the 1883 explosion of the Krakatoa volcano, recording details otherwise unavailable before the invention of color photography.
William Ashley Sir William James Ashley (1860-1927), was an influential economic historian, operating in the latter part of the 19th century and the early 20th century. His greatest work of note is The Economic Organisation Of England, still a set text on many A-level and University syllabuses.
William Aspdin William Aspdin (23 September 1815 — 1864A J Francis, The Cement Industry 1796-1914: a History,David & Charles, 1977, ISBN 0-7153-7386-2) was a British cement manufacturer, and a pioneer of the Portland cement industry.
William Astbury William Thomas Astbury FRS (Bill Astbury, 25 February,1898 — 4 June,1961) was an English physicist and molecular biologist who made pioneering X-ray diffraction studies of biological molecules. His work on keratin provided the foundation for Linus Pauling's discovery of the alpha helix.
William Attewell William Attewell (commonly known as "Dick" Attewell; born June 12 1861, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England; died June 11 1927, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England) was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy and economy.
William Augustus Bowles William Augustus Bowles (1763-1805), also known as Estajoca, was a Maryland-born English adventurer who served with the Maryland Loyalists Battalion as an ensign during the American Revolution having joined the British Army as a foot solider at 13.
William Augustus MĂĽhlenberg William Augustus MĂĽhlenberg (1796-1877) was an American philanthropist and Protestant Episcopal clergyman, father of the Ritualist movement in Episcopal Church in the United States of America great-grandson of Henry Muhlenberg] and grandson of [[Frederick Muhlenberg, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 16 September 1796.
William Auld William Auld (6 November, 1924 - 11 September, 2006) was a Scottish author and the deputy director of a grammar school. He began to study Esperanto in 1937, but only became active in the propagation of the language in 1947, and from then on wrote many works in Esperanto.
William Avery Rockefeller William Avery Rockefeller, Sr. (November 13, 1810 – May 11, 1906) was the father of American oil tycoon and billionaire, John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) and William Rockefeller (1841–1922), who both founded the Standard Oil company.
William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury, (11 July 1779 – 31 May 1860), was a British diplomat and Conservative politician who served as ambassador to Portugal 1824, ambassador to Russia from 1828 to 1832 and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1844 to 1846.
William B. Baugh Private First Class William Bernard Baugh (July 7, 1930—November 28, 1950) was a United States Marine who ,at age 20, earned the Medal of Honor in Korea for sacrificing his life to save his Marine comrades. The nation’s highest decoration for valor was awarded the young Marine for extraordinary heroism on 29 November 1950, between Koto-ri and Hagaru-ri, when he protected the members of his squadron from a grenade by smothering it with his body.
William B. Brahms William B. Brahms (born October 1, 1966) is an American librarian and author best known for his work on historical "lasts" (as opposed to "firsts"), in particular, the core reference work Notable Last Facts.
William B. Castle William Bainbridge Castle (November 30, 1814–February 28, 1872) was an American politician of the Whig Party who served as the 11th and final mayor of Ohio City from 1853 to 1854 and the 14th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1855 and 1856.
William B. Cooper William Barkley Cooper (December 16 1771 – April 29 1849) was an American farmer and politician from Laurel, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and later the Whig Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware.
William B. Cushing William Barker Cushing (4 November 1842 – 17 December 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy, best known for sinking the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle during a daring nighttime raid on October 27, 1864, a feat for which he received the thanks of Congress.
William B. Hartsfield William Berry Hartsfield (February 28 1890 - February 22 1971) was an American politician. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and served as its mayor from 1937 to 1941 and again from 1942 to 1962, making him the longest-serving mayor in Atlanta history.
William B. Maclay William Brown Maclay (March 20, 1812 - February 19, 1882) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he received private instruction and was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1836.
William B. Pine William Bliss Pine (December 30, 1877 - August 25, 1942) was a United States Senator from Oklahoma. Born in Bluffs, Illinois, he attended the public schools, taught school three years, and was employed as a salesman of harvesters.
William B. Renshaw William Bainbridge Renshaw (11 October 1816 – 1 January 1863) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. His father, Commodore James Renshaw, had served with William Bainbridge and he was named for the naval hero.
William B. Sandys William B. Sandys (1792 – February 18, 1874) (pronounced "Sands"), an English solicitor, a member of the Percy Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, is remembered now for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London, Richard Beckley, 1833), a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys gathered and also apparently improvised.
William B. Travis William Barret Travis (August 9, 1809 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th Century lawyer and soldier. He commanded the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution from the Republic of Mexico.
William B. Washburn William Barrett Washburn (January 31, 1820–October 5, 1887) was an American politician from Massachusetts, serving in the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Massachusetts. Born in 1820 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, he was the son of Asa and Phoebe (Whitney) Washburn and brother of Nelson Phinehas Washburn.
William Babtie William Babtie (VC, KCB, KCMG)(7 May 1859 -11 September 1920) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Badger William Badger (January 13, 1779– September 21, 1852) was an American manufacturer and mill owner from Gilmanton, New Hampshire. He served in both houses of the New Hampshire state legislature and was elected Governor for two terms.
William Baffin William Baffin (1584 – January 23, 1622) was an English navigator and discoverer. Nothing is known of his early life, but it is conjectured that he was born in London of humble origin, and gradually raised himself by his diligence and perseverance.
William Bagley William Chandler Bagley (born March 15, 1874, in Detroit; died July 1, 1946, in New York City), an American educator and editor, was born in Detroit, USA. He graduated in 1895 from Michigan State College, currently called Michigan State University; completed M.
William Baillieu William Lawrence Baillieu (April 22, 1859-1936) was an Australian financier and politician. He was a successful businessman, having developed significant business interests from his relatively humble beginnings.
William Ballard Lenoir Major William Ballard Lenoir (1775-1852) was the eldest son of General William Lenoir and his wife, Ann Ballard. Born in North Carolina, the younger Lenoir moved in 1810 with his wife, Elizabeth Avery Lenoir (daughter of Waightstill Avery), to a tract of land in Tennessee, near modern-day Lenoir City, Tennessee, which originally had been awarded to General Lenoir by the state of North Carolina for service in the Revolutionary War.
William Balmain William Balmain (2 February, 1762 - 17 November, 1803) was a British naval surgeon who sailed as an assistant surgeon with the First Fleet to establish the first European settlement in Australia, and later became its principal surgeon.
William Barber (cricketer) William Barber (1734 – 1805) was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s. Originally from Walberton, near Chichester, he came to Hambledon to play after being "spotted".
William Barclay (theologian) William Barclay (5 December 1907, Wick – 24 January 1978, Glasgow) was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.
William Barclay Peat Sir William Barclay Peat was the Scottish-born second son of James Peat and Margaret Barclay (of the banking family that built Barclays Bank, one of England's largest). Born of privilege, Peat studied law at the prestigious Montrose Academy in Scotland, but he did not enter the legal profession.
William Barclay Turnbull William Barclay David Donald Turnbull (1811-63) was a Scottish antiquary, born at Edinburgh. He studied law, and was admitted as an advocate at the Scottish bar 1832, but devoted much time to the study of the antiquities and older literature of Great Britain.
William Barker (prospector) William Barker (baptized 7 June 1817 – 11 July 1894) was a Canadian gold prospector and miner who participated in the British Columbia gold rush of the 1850s and 1860s in the Cariboo region of the modern province of British Columbia.
William Barlow (Bishop of Lincoln) Doctor William Barlow was an Anglican priest and courtier during the reign of James I of England. He served as Bishop of Rochester in 1605 and Bishop of Lincoln in the Anglican Church from 1608 until his death in 1613.
William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse William Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse (1888–27 April 1915) 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. The nephew of New Zealand politician, William Sefton Moorhouse, Rhodes-Moorhouse was the first airman to perform an action that was subsequently rewarded with the VC.
William Barnes William Barnes (22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect and much other work including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages.
William Barnsley Allen William Barnsley Allen (VC, DSO, MC & Bar) (8 June 1892 - 27 August 1933) 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. Allen attended Worksop College a pubic school in North Nottinghamshire.
William Barr (Arctic historian) William (Bill) Barr is an Scottish historian now resident of Calgary, Canada, with a specific interrest in the history of exploration of the Arctic, and to a lesser degree, the Antarctic. He holds degrees in Geography from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and McGill University, Québec, Canada.
William Bartee William Bartee (born June 25, 1977 in Daytona Beach, Florida) is an American football player who currently plays cornerback for the Kansas City Chiefs. He spent two years at Oklahoma University after beginning his college career at Butler County Community College in El Dorado, Kansas.
William Bartholomay William Bartholomay is a Chicago executive who made his living in the Insurance industry. In 1962 he was the leader of a consortioum who bought the Milwaukee Braves, a National League Baseball franchise, from the previous Braves owner Lou Perini.
William Barton (general) William Barton (1748-1831) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American War of Independence. He retired at the rank of colonel, although he is sometimes noted as a general due to his later role as adjutant general of the Rhode Island militia.
William Bartram Arboretum The William Bartram Arboretum is an arboretum located at 2521 Fort Toulouse Road, Wetumpka, Alabama, off East Boulevard in the 165 acre (66.8 hectare) Fort Toulouse-Jackson Park at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers.
William Basil Weston William Basil Weston (January 3, 1924-3 March 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Bastone William Bastone is the editor of The Smoking Gun, and an investigative journalist for The Village Voice. He also co-wrote a book titled The Smoking Gun: A Dossier of Secret, Surprising, and Salacious Documents.
William Batchelder Greene William Batchelder Greene (1819-1878) was a 19th century individualist anarchist, Unitarian minister, soldier and currency reformer in the United States. He was the son of Democratic journalist and Boston post-master Nathaniel Greene.
William Batten Sir William Batten ( c. 1600 - 1667) was a British sailor, son of Andrew Batten, master in the Royal Navy, first appears as taking out letters of marque in 1626, and in 1638 he obtained the post of surveyor to the navy, probably by purchase.
William Battie William Battie was a physician who published in 1758 the first lengthy book on the treatment of mental illness, 'A Treatise on Madness’, and by extending methods of treatment to the poor as well as the affluent, helped raise psychiatry to a respectable specialty. He was the first and only psychiatrist to become President of the Royal College of Physicians.
William Baumol William Baumol (born February 26 1922) is a New York University economics professor (although he is also affiliated with Princeton University) who has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy.
William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn William Beardmore was a Scottish industrialist born on 16 October 1856. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, Ayr Academy and the Royal Technical College (now part of Strathclyde University) in Glasgow.
William Beaumont Army Medical Center William Beaumont Army Medical Center is a Department of Defense medical facility located in El Paso, Texas. It provides comprehensive care to all beneficiaries including active duty military, their family members, and retirees.
William Beckwith McInnes William Beckwith McInnes (May 18, 1889 - November 9, 1939), was a famous Australian portrait painter (although he did paint landscapes as well). He won the Archibald Prize multiple times for his traditional style paintings.
William Bedell Stanford William Bedell Stanford (1911 - 1984), was an Irish classical scholar and senator. He was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin between 1940 and 1980 and served as the twenty-second Chancellor of the University between 1982 and 1984.
William Bedford William Bedford (born December 14 1963, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 1st round (6th overall) of the 1986 NBA Draft after playing at the University of Memphis (then known as Memphis State). Bedford played for the Suns, Detroit Pistons and the San Antonio Spurs in 6 NBA seasons averaging 4.
William Beeman William Orman Beeman is an actor, author, singer, and professor of anthropology at Brown University. Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Beeman was the recipient of an award named in honour of opera baritone, George London.
William Bees William Bees (September 12, 1871 - June 20, 1938) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
William Beesley William Beesley (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 Bechtel William Bechtel is a professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St.
William Bell (singer) William Bell (born William Yarborough on July 16, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American soul singer and songwriter. He was one of the architects of the Stax-Volt sound, and is probably best known for his 1961 debut single "You Don't Miss Your Water".
William Bell Clark William Bell Clark (born 26 September 1889 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania - died 31 October 1968), was an advertizing executive and self-taught naval historian, specializing in the period of the American Revolution, 1775-1783.
William Bell Riley William Bell Riley (born March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA; died December 5, 1947 Minneapolis, Minnesota) was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism." After being educated at normal school in Valparaiso, Indiana, Riley received his teacher's certificate.
William Bell Wait William Bell Wait (1839-1916) was a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind who invented New York Point, a system of writing for the blind that enjoyed wide use in the United States before the braille system was universally adopted there. Mr.
William Bellinger Bulloch William Bellinger Bulloch (1777 - May 6, 1852) was a American United States Senate|Senator from Georgia and an ancestor of President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and of his niece, Eleanor Roosevelt.
William Bemister William Bemister is a national Emmy award-winning documentary film maker and journalist. He started his career with the Rhodesia Herald and Sunday Mail newspaper group in pre-independence Rhodesia before joining the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation and its television subsidiary, RTV in Salisbury as a news sub-editor.
William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland Hans William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1645-1709), the son of Hendrick Bentinck of Diepenheim, was a Dutch and English nobleman born in 1645 as Hans Willem Bentinck. He was descended from an ancient and noble family of Guelders and became a favourite of stadtholder William Henry, Prince of Orange.

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