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William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland KG (Titchfield, March 1, 1709 – May 1, 1762) was the son of Henry Bentinck, 1st Duke of Portland and his wife Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough.
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland (24 June 1768 – 27 March 1854) was a British politician who served in various positions in the governments of George Canning and Lord Goderich.
William Benyon Sir William Richard Benyon (born 17 January 1930) is a retired British Conservative Party politician, Berkshire landowner and former High Sheriff. At least in his political persona, he generally preferred the familiar Bill Benyon form of his name.
William Bergsma William Laurence Bergsma (April 1, 1921–March 18, 1994) was an American composer. After studying piano with his mother, a former opera singer, and then the viola, Bergsma moved on to study composition; his most significant teachers were Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers.
William Berkeley Sir William Berkeley (pronounced "bark-lee") (Hanworth Manor, Middlesex 1605 - Berkeley House, Mayfair, London July 9, 1677) was a Governor of Virginia, appointed by King Charles I, of whom he was a favourite. He was born at Hanworth Manor, Middlesex in 1605 to Maurice Berkeley (1577-12717)??
William Bernard William Bernard was a 19th-century sailor, miner and resident of San Francisco, better known as the notorious "Barnacle Bill" of popular yore -- a rough-and-tumble, hard-drinking dock-swaggerer whose exploits are chronicled in the ribald drinking song "Barnacle Bill the Sailor."
William Bernard Barry William Bernard Barry (July 21 1902 – October 20 1946), United States politician, was born in County Mayo, Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1907 with his parents, who settled in Queens County, New York.
William Bernard O'Donoghue William Bernard O'Donoghue (1843 – 16 March 1878) was an Irish-American noted as having been the treasurer in the provisional government established by Louis Riel at the Red River Settlement during the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870. However, after fleeing to the United States with Riel on August 24, 1870, he subsequently broke with him following a meeting on 17 September where O'Donoghue unsuccessfully argued that the American government should be asked to intercede on behalf of the Métis people.
William Bernard Traynor William Bernard Traynor (31 December 1870 - 20 October 1956) was born at 29 Moxon Street, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England and was awarded a 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 Bernbach William (Bill) Bernbach (August 13, 1911, New York City - October 2, 1982, New York City) was a legendary figure in the history of American advertising. He was one of the three founders of Doyle Dane Bernbach and directed ad campaigns such as "Think Small" for Volkswagen Beetle (recognized by Advertising Age as the top advertising campaign of the 20th Century).
William Berry William Berry ("Bill", born August 28, 1967), CEO of William Berry Campaigns, Inc ("WBC") in Sacramento, CA, is a political consultant that works primarily with Democratic and progressive clients.
William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose Sir William Ewart Berry (1879-1954) was the second of three brothers born in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, who started life as a journalist, became editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph in 1928, and as a newspaper publisher founded a long-running press dynasty.
William Berryman Scott William Berryman Scott (12 February 1858 – 29 March 1947) was an American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs. He was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University.
William Bert Emison William Bert Emison (1939-1999) was born in Boise, Idaho, studied zoology at the University of Montana, worked in New Zealand studying the the diet of the Adelie Penguin, and received an MSc degree through John Hopkins University in 1967. Subsequently he worked in the Aleutian Islands and studied the Whistling Swan before moving to Australia in 1972.
William Bertram Greenfield William Bertram Greenfield (May 11, 1888 – November 12, 1949), was a United States businessman who worked in his family's successful fur trade company and is known for having survived the sinking of RMS Titanic.
William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (March 5, 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services (known as the Beveridge Report) which served as the basis for the post-World War II Labour government's Welfare State, including specially the National Health Service.
William Beynon William Beynon (1888-1958) was a hereditary chief from the Tsimshian nation (British Columbia, Canada) and an oral historian who served as ethnographer, translator, and linguistic consultant to many anthropologists.
William Biddle Shepard William Biddle Shepard (1799 - 1852) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in New Bern, North Carolina, May 14, 1799; completed preparatory studies; attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1813; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Camden County, North Carolina, later removing to Elizabeth City, North Carolina; also engaged in banking; elected to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1837); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-fourth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1836; member of the State senate 1838-1840 and 1848-1850; member of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina 1838-1852; died in Elizabeth City, N.C.
William Bidlake William Henry Bidlake (May 12, 1861 - April 6, 1938) was an English architect, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham and Director of the School of Architecture at Birmingham School of Art from 1919 until 1924.
William Bill William Bill (cir 1505-15 July 1561) was Master of St Johns College, Cambridge (1547-1551?), Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1548) and twice Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1551-1553, 1558-1561), Provost of Eton College (1558-1561) and Dean of Westminster (1560-1561).
William Billings William Billings (October 7, 1746–September 26, 1800), American choral composer, is regarded as the father of American choral music and hymnody. Billings was born, died, and spent his life in Boston, during the exciting years of the American Revolution.
William Billy Reid William Billy Reid was an active member of the Third Battalion Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (pIRA). On 15 May 1971 a foot patrol of the British army was ambushed in Academy Street in the centre of Belfast by the Third Battalion Belfast Brigade.
William Bingham William Bingham (1752–1804) was an American statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and served in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801.
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood GCB GCSI GCMG GCVO GBE CIE DSO (13 September, 1865 – 17 May, 1951) was a First World War general who is best known as the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.
William Birney William Birney (May 28, 1819 – August 14, 1907) was a professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author. An ardent abolitionist, he was noted for encouraging thousands of free black men to join the Union army.
William Blackstone Sir William Blackstone (July 10, 1723 – February 14, 1780) was an English jurist and professor who produced the historical and analytic treatise on the common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published in four volumes over 1765–1769. It had an extraordinary success, reportedly bringing the author £14,000, and still remains an important source on classical views of the common law and its principles.
William Blake William Blake (November 28 1757 – August 12 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, his work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts.
William Blake's mythology The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This desire to recreate the cosmos is the heart of his work and his psychology.
William Blake's prophetic books The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake are a series of difficult and obscure poetic works. While Blake worked as a commercial illustrator, these books were ones that he produced, with his own engravings, as an extended and largely private project.
William Blandowski Wilhelm (William) Blandowski (January 21 1822 - December 18 1878), a German zoologist, was born in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (now: Gliwice, Poland). He was the first scientist appointed to the Victorian museum in 1854.
William Blathwayt William Blathwayt (or Blathwayte) (1649?-August 1717) was a civil servant and politician who established the War Office as a department of the British Government and played an important part in administering the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
William Bligh Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS RN (9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and colonial administrator. He is best known for the famous mutiny that occurred against his command aboard HMAV Bounty, and the remarkable voyage he made to Timor, on the Bounty's launch, after being set adrift by the mutineers.
William Bonin William George Bonin (8 January 1947 – 23 February 1996) was an American serial killer, also known as “the Freeway Killer”, a nickname he shares with two other serial killers. Along with several accomplices, Bonin raped and killed as many as 20 young men and boys, crimes for which Bonin was eventually executed.
William Booth William Booth (April 10,1829 – August 20,1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded the Salvation Army and became the first General (1878-1912). The Christian movement, with a quasi-military structure and government - but with no physical weaponry, founded in 1865 has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.
William Booth (Anglican clergyman) The Rev'd Prebendary William Booth, LVO MA, Sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, Deputy Clerk of the Closet, Subalmoner of the Royal Almonry and domestic chaplain to The Queen, appointed in 1991, is the sole full-time member of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
William Boteler William Boteler was a Colonel of Horse in the New Model Army during the English Civil War. By the end of the war, Boteler had been appointed Major-General for Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland during the Rule of the Major-Generals.
William Bourke Cockran William Bourke Cockran (February 28, 1854 - March 1, 1923) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, he was educated in France and in his native country, and immigrated to the United States when seventeen years of age.
William Bowers William Bowers (Las Cruces, 1916 - Woodland Hills, California, 1987) was a reporter in Long Beach, California before becoming a screenwriter and specializing in writing comedy westerns and also turned out several thrillers. His first credited screenplay was My Favorite Spy in 1942.
William Bowman Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet (July 20, 1816 - March 29, 1892) was a British surgeon, histologist & anatomist. He is most famous for his research using microscopes to study various human organs, though during his lifetime he pursued a successful career as an ophthalmologist.
William Bowra William Bowra (born 1752, probably at Sevenoaks, Kent; died 7 May 1820 at Sevenoaks) was an English cricketer who played regularly for Kent teams from 1768 until 1788 and then for Sussex until 1792. He had 47 known first-class appearances between 1775 and 1792.
William Bowrey William "Bill" Bowrey (December 25, 1943) was an Australian male tennis player. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and is best remembered as the last amateur to win the Australian Championships in 1968 before the tournament opened itself for professional tennis players in '69.
William Bowyer (1663-1737) William Bowyer (1663 - December 27, 1737), English printer, was apprenticed to a printer in 1679, made a liveryman of the Stationers' Company in 1700, and nominated as one of the twenty printers allowed by the Star Chamber.
William Boyce Thompson William Boyce Thompson, (May 13, 1869 - June 27, 1930), was an American mining engineer, financier, promoter of Western support for the revolutionary Kerensky and Bolshevik governments of Russia, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining.
William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork Admiral of the Fleet William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and 12th Earl of Orrery GCB GCVO RN (November 30, 1873 - April 19, 1967) was a career Royal Navy officer who had achieved the rank of full Admiral before succeeding a cousin in 1934 to the family titles, chief of which is Earl of Cork. He was, at the time, serving as Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Fleet.
William Boynton Butler William Boynton Butler (VC, Croix de Guerre (France)) (20 November 1894-25 March 1972) 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 Brade William Brade (1560 – February 26, 1630) was an English composer, violinist, and viol player of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, mainly active in northern Germany. He was the first Englishman to write a canzona, an Italian form, and probably the first to write a piece for solo violin.
William Bradford (1590-1657) William Bradford (1590 – May 9, 1657) was a leader of the separatist settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and was elected Governor of the Colony for 15 two-year terms. He was the second signer and primary architect of the Mayflower Compact.
William Bradford (1719-1791) William Bradford (1719 – September 25, 1791) was a printer, soldier, and leader during the American Revolution from Philadelphia. He was born in New York City in 1719, and was the grandson of the printer William Bradford.
William Bradford (1729-1808) William Bradford (November 4, 1729 - July 6, 1808) was a physician, lawyer, and United States Senator from Rhode Island. He was born at Plympton, Massachusetts, and was the great-great-grandson of the William Bradford who had been Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
William Bradley (giant) William Bradley (February 10, 1787 – May 30, 1820), known more commonly as Giant Bradley or the Yorkshire Giant is the tallest recorded British man that ever lived, measuring 7 feet 9 inches, two-and-a-half inches taller than Christopher Greener, the tallest living man in Britain.
William Bradshaw William Bradshaw, (February 12, 1830- March 9, 1861) born in Thurles, County Tipperary, he was an Irish 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 Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw William Peter Bradshaw, Baron Bradshaw (October 1936 – ) is a British academic and politician. A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords, where he is currently his party's spokesperson on transport, he is also a County Councillor in Oxfordshire.
William Brady William Otterwell Brady (February 1, 1899 - October 1, 1961) was the fourth Archbishop and sixth Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul in the United States. He succeeded John Gregory Murray as Archbishop on Murray's death on October 11, 1956 and served in the office until his death.
William Brain William Henry Brain (21 July 1870 - 20 November 1934) was an English cricketer and footballer: a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who played for Gloucestershire, Oxford University and MCC in the early 1890s; as well as keeping goal for Oxford United.Obituaries in 1934.
William Brantley Aycock William Brantley Aycock (born 1915) is an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) from 1957 until 1964 and is the retired Kenan professor of law at UNC's School of Law.
William Brereton (groom) William Brereton, ( - May 17,1536), who came from a Cheshire landowning family, was a groom of the privy chamber of Henry VIII. He was caught up in the accusations against Anne Boleyn, tried for treason and executed with the Queen and four others.
William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton of Leighlin (or Laghlin) in County Carlow, Ireland was born on 28 February 1611. He was the son of Sir John Brereton (the 4th son and heir apparent to Sir William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton) and Anne Fitton (the daughter of Sir Edward Fitton).
William Brewster (Pilgrim) Elder William Brewster (1567 - 10 April 1644), was a Pilgrim colonist leader and preacher who came from Scrooby, in north Nottinghamshire and reached what became the Plymouth Colony in the Mayflower in 1620. He was accompanied by his wife, Mary Brewster, and his sons, Love Brewster and Wrestling Brewster.
William Brian Little William Brian Little (known as Brian Little) (1942–2000) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm. He attended Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, USA, where he was later the chairman of the Board of Trustees.
William Bridges-Adams (Theatre director) William Bridges-Adams (1889–1965) was a British theatre director, associated closely with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, from 1919 until 1934. Under his leadership the annual short festivals of Shakespeare’s plays first took on the international fame and significance which they hold to this day.
William Bright William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.
William Brocius William "Curly Bill" Brocius or Brocious as spellings vary, (ca. 1845-March 24, 1882) was a western outlaw, gunman and member of the "Cow-boys" outlaw gang of the Tombstone area in the Arizona Territory during the early to mid-1880's.
William Broderip William John Broderip (November 21, 1789-February 27, 1859) was an English naturalist, born in Bristol. After graduating at Oxford he was called to the bar in 1817, and for some years was engaged in law-reporting.
William Brodie William Brodie (1741–1788), more commonly known by his prestigious title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of the trades guild and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling.
William Bronk William Bronk (1918-1999) was an American poet and the author of more than 15 books of poems and essays and a winner of the American Book Award in 1982. William Bronk was born 17 February 1918 in Fort Edward, NY and died on 22 February, 1999.
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527-1597) was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and and a Member of Parliament for Hythe. Although he was viewed by some as a religious radical during the Somerset protectorate, he entertained Elizabeth at Cobham Hall in 1559, signalling his acceptance of the moderate regime.
William Brown (clergyman) William Brown was a Scottish clergyman; born 1766; died 1835; for forty-three years minister of Eskdalemuir, Scotland. He is the author of Antiquities of the Jews Carefully Compiled from Authentic Sources, and Their Customs Illustrated from Modern Travels, in two volumes, with a map showing the ground-plan of the Temple (London, 1820; 2d edition, Edinburgh, 1826).
William Brown (sailor) William Brown (birth name unknown) was reputed to be a Black woman who joined the Royal Navy disguised as a man. The story goes that she was born in Edinburgh, joined in 1804 and served until 1816, even after her birth-sex was discovered in 1815.
William Brown (soldier) William Brown was a soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Stamford and enlisted in the 5th Connecticut Regiment as a corporal on May 23 1775, and re-enlisted as a private on April 9 1777, for the duration of the war in the 8th Connecticut Regiment.
William Brown Library and Museum The William Brown Library and Museum is a Grade II* listed building situated on the historic William Brown Street in Liverpool, UK. The building currently houses part of the World Museum Liverpool and Liverpool Central Library.
William Brown Street William Brown Street in Liverpool England is a road that gives it's name to the William Brown Street conservation area. It may be the only street in the UK to consist of nothing other than Museums, Galleries and Libraries
William Bruce Robertson William Bruce Robertson (1820 – 1886), Scottish divine, was born at Greenhill, St. Ninians, Stirling, 24 May, 1820, and was educated at the University of Glasgow and at the Secession Theological Hall, Edinburgh, where he made the acquaintance of Thomas de Quincey, and on his recommendation went to the University of Halle and studied under Friedrich Tholuck.
William Bryce William "Scottie" Bryce (born September 7, 1888, year of death unknown) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He briefly served as leader of the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), although he never served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
William Brydges William Brydges was arrested, but not convicted, for the murder of Elizabeth MacLeod. His case was a Canadian precedent, and created significant controversy after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld his acquittal.
William Brydon William Brydon CB (10 October 1811 – 20 March 1873) was an assistant surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War and is famous for being the only (European) survivor of an army of 16,500 men.
William Brydone Jack William Brydone-Jack, (23 November 1817 – 23 November, 1886), was the University of New Brunswick's first surveying professor and its second president (1861-1885). In 1840, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at what was then King's College (founded in 1785) and gave lectures in surveying as part of the mathematics curriculum.
William Buckingham William Buckingham (February 1886-15 September 1916) 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 Buckland William Buckland (12 March, 1784 - 24 August, 1856) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur. He was a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology, who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz.
William Buehler Seabrook William Buehler Seabrook (February 22 1884–1945) was an American Lost Generation occultist, explorer, traveller, and journalist, born in Westminster, Maryland. He began his career as a reporter and City Editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia.
William Buell Sprague William Buell Sprague (1795-1876) was an American clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit (nine volumes, 1857-1969), a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American ministers of all denominations. He graduated at Yale in 1815.
William Bullen William Bullen (dates unknown) was an outstanding English cricketer throughout the last quarter of the 18th century. Hailing from Kent, Bullen was a great all-rounder, noted in the key sources as a fast bowler and a "powerful hitter".
William Bullitt William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (born January 25, 1891 in Philadelphia; February 15, 1967, Neuilly) was an American diplomat, journalist, novelist and outspoken anticommunist. Working for Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference Bullitt was a strong supporter of legalistic internationalism, subsequently known as Wilsonianism. Prior to the negotiation of the Versailles accords, Bullitt engaged, along with journalist Lincoln Steffens, in what they thought a special mission to Soviet Russia together with the Swedish Communist Karl Kilbom, to negotiate diplomatic relations between the Bolshevik regime and the Supreme Council. Having failed to convince Wilson to support establishment of relations with the Bolsheviks, Bullitt resigned from Wilson's staff.
William Bullock (inventor) William Bullock (1813–April 12, 1867) was an American inventor whose 1863 invention of the web rotary printing press helped revolutionize the printing industry due to its great speed and efficiency. A few years after his invention, Bullock was accidentally killed by his own web rotary press.
William Bullokar William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. Its characters were in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time.
William Bunge William Wheeler Bunge Jr. (born 1928, La Crosse, Wisconsin) is the american geographer active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial theorist but considering himself also as a radical, humanist and marxist geographer.
William Burdett-Coutts William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts (New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1851 – 28 July 1921) was a British Conservative politician, younger brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. Born in America as William Lehman Ashmead-Bartlett, his grandparents had been British subjects.
William Burges (architect) William Burges (1827–1881) was an English architect and designer. The greatest of the Victorian art-architects, Burges sought in his work an escape from 19th century industrialisation and a return to the values, architectural and social, of an imagined mediaeval England.
William Burke Miller William Burke "Skeets" Miller (c. 1903 – December 29, 1983) was a newspaper and radio reporter who first came to prominence with his on site reporting of the attempted rescue of caver Floyd Collins for Louisville's Courier-Journal, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize on May 4, 1926.
William Butler (colonel) Colonel William Butler was a Pennsylvania Militia officer during the American Revolutionary War, known for his leadership in the Battle of Monmouth, the burning of the Indian villages at Unadilla and Oquaga, and in the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition.
William Byrd II William Byrd II (28 March 1674 – 26 August 1744) was born at Westover Plantation in Charles City County, Virginia, and educated at Felsted School, England, for the law. He was a member of the King's Counsel for 37 years.
William Byrd III William Byrd III (September 6 1728 - January 1 1777) was the son of William Byrd II and the grandson of William Byrd I. He inherited his family land and continued his family's prestige as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses but chose to fight in the French and Indian War rather than spend much time in Richmond.
William Byron, 5th Baron Byron William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, (November 5, 1722 – May 19, 1798), also known as "the Wicked Lord" and "the Devil Byron", was the poet Lord Byron's great-uncle. He was the son of William Byron, 4th Baron Byron and his wife Hon.
William C. Boyd William Clouser Boyd (March 4, 1903 - February 19, 1983) was an American immunochemist, who with his wife Lyle, during the 1930's, made a worldwide survey of the distribution of blood types. He discovered that blood groups are inherited and not influenced by environment.
William C. Brown William C. Brown (May 22, 1916 - February 3, 1999) was an American electrical engineer who helped to invent the crossed-field amplifier in the 1950s and also pioneered microwave power transmission in the 1960s.
William C. Dowling William C. Dowling (born April 1944 in Warner, New Hampshire) is the University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, specialising in Eighteenth-century literature, colonial American literature and literature of the early American Republic, Semantic theory, philosophy of language, and Critical Theory.
William C. Durant William Crapo "Billy" Durant (December 8, 1861–March 18, 1947) was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, the founder of General Motors who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars.
William C. Feazel William Crosson Feazel (June 10, 1895 - March 16, 1965) was a United States Senator from Louisiana. Born near Farmerville in Union Parish, he attended the public schools and engaged as an independent oil and gas producer.
William C. Harris Captain William Charles Harris CB was the first Assistant Commissioner (Executive) of the London Metropolitan Police, holding the office from 1856 to 1881. In this office he was in charge of executive business, supplies and buildings.
William C. Krumbein William Christian Krumbein was born at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA, in January, 1902. He was a notable geologist, after whom the Krumbein Medal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology was named.
William C. Lantaff William Courtland Lantaff—also known as Bill Lantaff— (born in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, July 31, 1913 and died in Miami, Florida January 28, 1970) was a Democratic politician from Florida. He served as State court judge in Florida, 1939; member of Florida House of Representatives, 1947-50; U.

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