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William Henry Snyder Nickerson William Henry Snyder Nickerson (VC, CB, CMG), (March 27, 1875, Saint John, New Brunswick - 1954), was a Canadian 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 Henry Stark William Henry Stark (1851-1936) was an industrial leader whose contributions helped the city of Orange, Texas develop financially. Stark was the president of the Lutcher Moore Cypress Lumber Company of Lutcher, Louisiana.
William Henry Thomas Sylvester William Henry Thomas Sylvester (16 April 1831-13 March 1920) 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 Henry Trescot William Henry Trescot (November 10, 1822 – May 4, 1898) was an American diplomatist born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the November 10, 1822. He graduated at College of Charleston in 1840, studied law at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in 1843.
William Henry Wattis William Henry Wattis (August 14, 1859 - September, 1932) was one of the three Wattis Brothers who founded Utah Construction Company in 1900. Will Wattis was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Utah and Congress in the 1930's.
William Henry Wright William Henry "Bill" Wright (April 21, 1876 – September 20, 1951) was a Canadian prospector who discovered the Kirkland Lake Break, which hosted seven gold producing mines. He used the proceeds from his gold finds to launch a national newspaper in Canada, The Globe and Mail.
William Henry Young William Henry Young (London, October 20, 1863 - Lausanne, July 7, 1942) was a mathematician educated at University of Cambridge. He worked on measure theory, Fourier series, differential calculus amongst other fields, and made brilliant and long-lasting contributions to the study functions of several complex variables.
William Hepburn Russell William Hepburn Russell (born January 31, 1812 in Burlington, Vermont, died September 10, 1872 in Palmyra, Missouri), Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddel are often credited as the founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express.
William Hepburn Scott William Hepburn Scott (November 1837 – July 1881) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He representing the riding of Peterborough West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1874 to 1881.
William Herbert Anderson William Herbert Anderson (29 December 1881 - 25 March 1918) 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 Herbert Cam William Herbert Cam (1851-1927) was the son of William Cam of Durlsey, Gloucestershire, William Herbert Cam was at Bedford School and a scholar of New College, Oxford. He was a master at Wellington College, headmaster of Dudley Grammar School (1897-83) and Abingdon School (1883-93).
William Herbert Sheldon William Herbert Sheldon (November 19, 1898 – September 17, 1977) was an American psychologist and numismatist. Sheldon distinguished himself in both fields; in psychology, Sheldon pioneered the use of anthropometry in the development of his categories of somatotypes, and in numismatics, Sheldon authored Penny Whimsy, the first work to extensively catalog the varieties of early American large cents.
William Herbert Wallace William Herbert Wallace, born 1878 in Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, was convicted in 1931 of the murder of his wife Julia in their home in Wolverton Street in Liverpool's Anfield district. His conviction was later overturned by by the Court Of Criminal Appeal, the first instance in British legal history where an appeal had been allowed after re-examination of evidence .
William Herbert Waring William Herbert Waring (VC, MM) (13 October 1885-8 October 1918) was a Welsh 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 Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, KG, PC (April 8 1580 – April 10 1631) was the son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and his third wife Mary Sidney. Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he founded Pembroke College, Oxford with James VI of Scotland and I of England.
William Herschel Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (November 15 1738-August 25 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus. He also discovered infrared radiation and made many other discoveries in astronomy.
William Herschel Telescope The William Herschel Telescope or WHT was first conceived in the late 1960s, when the Anglo-Australian Observatory was being designed. The British astronomical community saw the need for telescopes of comparable power in the Northern Hemisphere.
William Herskovic William Herskovic (June 1914 - March 3 2006) was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II, and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps.
William Hetherington case The William Hetherington case is a legal case in the State of Michigan in which William Hetherington was convicted of the blackmail of his wife during a contentious divorce case and custody dispute and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years' imprisonment. It was expected that Hetherington would win custody, because his wife had abandoned the family for more than two months.
William Hew Clark-Kennedy William Hew Clark-Kennedy (VC, CMG, DSO & Bar, ED, Croix de Guerre (France)), (March 3, 1879, Scotland - October 25, 1961), was a Canadian 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 Hewlett (regicide) On 30 January, 1649, Captain William Hewlett was the officer in charge of the soldiers at the execution of Charles I.Hewlett Genealogy sourced from a book by the Reverend William King (Vicar of Astley 1947-1973), titled "Bells and Pomegranates"
William Hickey (actor) William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. The Brooklyn-born actor was best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film Prizzi's Honor.
William Hickey (memoirist) William Hickey (June 30, 1749 – May 31, 1830), was a lawyer, bon-viveur and general man about town, but is best-known for his vast Memoirs, composed in 1808-10 and published between 1913 and 1925, which in their manuscript form cover seven hundred and forty closely-written pages. Described by Peter Quennell as "One of the most remarkable books of its kind ever published in the English Language", Hickey's Memoirs give an extraordinarily vivid picture of life in late 18th-century London, Calcutta, Madras and Jamaica which stands comparison with the best of his near-contemporary James Boswell.
William Hicks William Hicks (also known as Hicks Pasha, 1830 - 1883), British soldier, entered the Bombay army in 1849, and served through the Indian mutiny, being mentioned in despatches for good conduct at the action of Sitka Ghaut in 1859.
William Hickton (Worcestershire cricketer) William Henry Hickton (28 August 1884 - 8 April 1942) was an English cricketer who played five first-class matches for Worcestershire in the space of little over a month in 1909. He took only two wickets: those of Warwickshire's Charles Baker and Middlesex's Harold Wyatt.
William Higgitt William Leonard Higgitt (November 10, 1917 – April 2, 1989) was the 15th Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner (October 1 1969 – December 28 1973; succeeding Malcolm Lindsay) and President of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) (1972 - 1976; succeeding Paul Dickopf).
William Hill Brown William Hill Brown (November 1765, Boston - 2 September 1793, Murfreesboro, North Carolina) was an American novelist, the author of what is usually considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy (1789).
William Hill Poker Grand Prix The William Hill Poker Grand Prix was a poker tournament sponsored by William Hill plc shown on Sky Sports from 17 January - 14 March 2006. It features a number of professional and amateur poker players competing against each other.
William Hilton (UK politician) William Samuel Hilton (21 March 1926 - 12 June 1999) was a British Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green. He represented the constituency from 1966 to 1974, when it was altered by boundary changes in the February election of that year.
William Hindman William Hindman (April 1, 1743 – January 19, 1822) was an American lawyer and statesman from Talbot County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress, and in the federal Congress as both a Representative from the second and seventh districts, and as a U.
William Hirstein American Philosopher William Hirstein is a professor of philosophy, and the current chair of the philosophy department at Elmhurst College. He is primarily interested in Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Cognitive Science, and Analytic Philosophy.
William Hodges William Hodges (October 28, 1744, London - March 6, 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic.
William Hodgson William Marshall Chamberlain Hodgson (March 18, 1912—October 27, 1988) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.
William Hoey Kearney Redmond William Hoey Kearney Redmond (15 April 1861 - 9 June 1917) (commonly known as Willie Redmond) was an Irish nationalist, Irish Parliamentary Party Member of Parliament for 34 years, Land League agitator imprisoned three times, determined advocate of Home Rule, barrister and First World War fatality.
William Hogarth William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26,1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. His work ranged from excellent realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects.
William Holcombe William Holcombe (July 22, 1804 - September 5, 1870) was a United States Democratic politician and the first Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. He was born in Lambertville, New Jersey and died in Stillwater, Minnesota.
William Holder William Holder (1616 - January 24, 1698) was an English music theorist of the 17th century. His most notable work was his widely known 1694 publication A Treatise on the Natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony.
William Hollett Frank William "Flash" Hollett (Born April 13, 1912 in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada - Died April 20, 1999 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), was a Canadian Professional Hockey Defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings.
William Holman William Arthur Holman (4 August 1871 – 6 June 1934) was an Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Australia, who split with the party on the conscription issue in 1916 during World War I, and immediately became Premier of a conservative Nationalist Party Government.
William Holmes (1779-1851) William ("Billy") Holmes (1779 – 26 January 1851) was a British Tory politician of the early nineteenth century, serving as party manager, and Chief Whip in the House of Commons from about 1802 until his seat (for the rotten borough of Haslemere) was abolished by the Great Reform Act of 1832. He had also previously represented Grampound.
William Holmes (General) Major General William Holmes, DSO (12 September 1862 – 2 July 1917) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I. He was mortally wounded by a German shellburst while surveying the ground won at the Battle of Messines.
William Holmes Crosby, Jr. William Holmes Crosby (December 1, 1914 – January 15, 2005) is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of modern hematology. He published more the 450 peer-reviewed papers in the field, as well as those of oncology, gastroenterology, iron metabolism, nutrition and general medical practice.
William Holt (writer and artist) William Holt (1897 - 1977) was born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, northern England; the eldest son of a coal merchant. At the age of 13, whilst working in a cotton weaving shed, he taught himself several languages.
William Hone William Hone (June 3, 1780 – November 6, 1842) was an English writer, satirist and bookseller. His victorious court battle against government censorship in 1817 marked a turning point in the fight for British press freedom.
William Hootkins William Hootkins (July 5, 1948 – October 23, 2005) was an American actor probably best known on film for his roles as the cult favorite Red Six (Porkins) in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and as the crooked Lt. Max Eckhardt in Batman (1989).
William Hope William Hope (12 April 1834-17 December 1909) 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 Hope (paranormal investigator) William Hope, (1863 - March 8 1933), was a supposed pioneer of spirit photography. Based in Crewe, Cheshire, he was a member of the well known spiritualists group, the Crewe Circle and died in Salford hospital on March 8 1933.
William Hope Harvey William "Coin" Hope Harvey (16 August, 1851 – 11 February, 1936) was a teacher, businessman, author, and politician most remember for his views and book on bimetallism and the health resort he built in Northwest Arkansas, Monte Ne. Many of his ideas also became the basis for the American Populist Party.
William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting mostly of short stories and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction.
William Horlick High School William Horlick High School (also known as "Horlick" or "Racine Horlick" High School) is a public, four-year high school in Racine, Wisconsin with an enrollment of approximately 2,150 students. Its school colors are scarlet and gray.
William Hornby William Hornby, Governor of Bombay till 1784, is best remembered by the Vellard north of Cumballa Hill which was constructed at his behest against the wishes of the British East India Company. One of the first large works of civil engineering in the city, it transformed the geography of the islands by opening up the low-lying marshy areas of Mahalaxmi and Kamathipura for inhabitation on its completion in 1784.
William Hosking William Hosking FSA (November 26, 1800 - August 2, 1861) was a writer, lecturer, and architect who had an important influence on the growth and development of London in Victorian times. He became the first Professor of Architecture at King's College London, and associated this discipline in a scholarly fashion with interests in town planning, civil engineering, history and antiquities.
William Hoste Captain Sir William Hoste, 1st Baronet KCB RN (26 August 1780 - 6 December 1828), Royal Navy captain, was the son of Dixon Hoste, rector of Godwick and Tittleshall in Norfolk. He was born at Ingoldisthorpe, and the family later moved to Godwick Hall, east of Tittleshall, which was leased from Thomas Coke, who later became the 1st Earl of Leicester, of Holkham Hall.
William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham Admiral William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham (1736–1813), was an officer in the Royal Navy. He was the son of Sir Beaumont Hotham (died 1771), a lineal descendant of the above Sir John Hotham, and was educated at Westminster School and at the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth.
William Houldsworth Sir William Henry Houldsworth, 1st Baronet (born Ardwick, Manchester 20 August 1834, died Kilmarnock 18 April 1917) was a mill-owner in Reddish, Stockport. He was Conservative MP for Manchester North West from 1883 to 1906, and sometime chairman of the Fine Cotton Spinners' Association.
William Houstoun William Houstoun (* 1755; died March 17, 1813) was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Savannah, Georgia. He served Georgia as a delegate to the Continental Congress and to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787.
William Howard (engineer) William Howard (1793 – 1834) was an American mechanical engineer who was one of the first to work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. When the railroad built its first cars using friction bearings first developed by Ross Winans, Howard made his own design and patented it on November 2 1828.
William Howard Allen William Howard Allen (July 8, 1790 - November 9, 1822) was a United States naval officer. He was born in Hudson, New York in 1790; appointed midshipman in 1808; commanded the Alligator, which was sent to the West Indies to destroy pirates in 1822.
William Howard Russell William Howard Russell (March 28, 1821 Lilyvale, County Dublin - February 11, 1907) was an Irish reporter with the London Times, and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents, after he spent 22 months covering the Crimean War.
William Howard Shuster William Howard Shuster (1893 - 1969) was an American artist. He arrived in New Mexico in the early twentieth century as one of the first wave of white artists who came to paint but stayed on to help build the arts community.
William Howard Taft William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 – March 8 1930) was an American politician, the 27th President of the United States, the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party in the early 20th century, a chaired professor at Yale Law School, a pioneer in international arbitration, and a staunch advocate of world peace that verged on pacifism (although the pacifists of his time did not call him one of their own).
William Howard Taft University William Howard Taft University is a private, nationally accredited online university headquartered in Santa Ana, California. Founded in 1976 as a source of continuing education for certified public accountants (CPAs), the school expanded into a specialized distance learning institution of higher learning and expanded online.
William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (November 30, 1614 - December 29, 1680, was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and his wife, the former Alethea Talbot. He is regarded as a Roman Catholic martyr.
William Howarth William Howarth is an American writer and a professor of English at Princeton University. He serves on the editorial board of Environmental History and is the chairman of the board for The Center for American Places.
William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe Sir William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC (August 10, 1729 – July 12,1814) was an English General who was Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American Revolutionary War, one of the three Howe brothers. He was knighted after his successes in 1775 and was henceforth Sir William, inheriting the viscountcy only upon his brother's death in 1799.
William Hughes (Mr. W. H.) William Hughes is one potential candidate for the person on whom the 'Fair Youth' of Shakespeare's Sonnets is based (if the sonnets are autobiographical). The 'Fair Youth' is a handsome, effeminate young man to whom the poet addresses many passionate sonnets.
William Hulbert William Ambrose Hulbert (October 23, 1832 - April 10, 1882) was one of the founders of the National League, recognized as baseball's first major league, and was also the president of the Chicago White Stockings franchise.
William Hulsey William Henry Hulsey (October 1,1838 – May 17,1909) was an American attorney, soldier, and politician who served as Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
William Hume-Rothery William Hume-Rothery OBE (1899–1968) was a British metallurgist who studied the constitution of alloys. In his research, he concluded that the microstructure of an alloy depends on the sizes of the component atoms, as well as the valency electron concentration, and electrochemical differences.
William Humphrey William Ewert Humphrey (31 March 1862-14 February 1934), an American politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1917. He represented the state of Washington at large from 1903 to 1909 and the First Congressional District of Washington from 1909 to 1917.
William Humphreys Jackson William Humphreys Jackson (October 15, 1839 – April 3, 1915) represented the 1st congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1901 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1909. His son, William P.
William Hung (artist) William Shih-Chich Hung (洪世杰, born 1928 in Jieyang, Guangdong, China) is a famous international painter. He currently lives in San Francisco Bay Area in the United States with his wife and family, since their immigration from China in 1980.
William Hunter (Protestant martyr) William Hunter was a Marian martyr burnt to death in Brentwood at the age of 19 on March 27, 1555. He had lost his job in London as a silk-weaver because of his views and had come to live with his parents in Brentwood, but got into a dispute when reading the Bible in Brentwood Chapel.
William Hunter Odell William Hunter Odell (26 November 1811 – 26 July 1891) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician. Following Canadian confederation in 1867, Odell was appointed to the Canadian Senate by royal proclamation on 23 October, 1867.
William Huntington Russell William Huntington Russell William Huntington Russell (12 August 1809, Middletown, Connecticut - 19 May 1885, New Haven, Connecticut) was co-founder of Skull and Bones along with Alphonso Taft. He was a descendant of the most noted New England families, including Pierpont, Hooker, Bingham, and Willet.
William Hurley William Hurley (known works 1319-1354) held the title of king's master carpenter for King Edward III of England. Hurley was in charge of timber works for all royal buildings, including the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, Westminster Palace, St.
William Hurlstone William Martin Yeates Hurlstone (7 January, 1876 – 30 May, 1906) was an English composer who studied at the Royal College of Music, after gaining a scholarship. He was a classically trained pianist and performed many works by famous composers.
William Huskisson William Huskisson (11 March 1770 – 15 September 1830), was a British statesman, financier, and Member of Parliament for several constituencies, including Liverpool. He is best known today, however, as the world's first railway casualty, having been accidentally killed by George Stephenson's locomotive engine Rocket.
William Hutcheson William Hutcheson (February 6, 1874 - October 20, 1953) was the leader of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America from 1915 until 1952. A conservative craft unionist, he opposed the organization of workers in mass production industries such as steel and automobile manufacturing into industrial unions.
William Hutchins The Venerable William Hutchins was the first and only Anglican Archdeacon of Van Diemen's Land. He was a strong supporter of Education through the Church, and because of this, The Hutchins School in Hobart was named in his honour.
William Hutton William Hutton is the pseudonym of the editor and owner of Hutton Commentaries. He is a geologist by profession, and the author of the 1996 book Coming Earth Changes, which compared geologic records with the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce and predicted catastrophic climate changes before the end of 2001.
William Chaffey William Benjamin Chaffey (born in 1856 in Brockville, Ontario, died in 1926 in Mildura, Victoria) was a Canadian engineer who with his brother George Chaffey developed what became the cities of Etiwanda, Ontario, and Upland in California, United States of America; and the city of Mildura, Victoria, Australia, as well as the town of Renmark, South Australia.
William Chalmers Burns William Chalmers Burns (April 1, 1815 – April 41868) was a Scottish Evangelist and Missionary to China with the English Presbyterian Mission who originated from Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire. He was the coordinator of the Overseas missions for the English Presbyterian church.
William Chambers (architect) Sir William Chambers (October 27, 1723 - February 17, 1796), was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration.
William Champion William "Willie" Julius Champion Jr., was born on June 15, 1880, in Trinidad, Colorado, and is best known for introducing Kalah, a game in the Mancala family, to the West, and especially the United States, in the early 20th Century.
William Champion (metallurgist) William Champion (born 1709 died 1789) is credited with patenting a process in Britain to distill zinc from calamine using charcoal in a smelter. He had visited Zawar mines in India where he had seen a similar process in action.
William Chandless William Chandless was a British explorer of the Amazon Basin in the 1860s. During this time he lived in Manaus (now the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state) from where he explored many of the Amazon River's southern tributaries and contacted various indigenous tribes.
William Chapman Hewitson William Chapman Hewitson was a British naturalist, born on 9 January 1806 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and died on May 28, 1878. A wealthy collector, this naturalist was particularly devoted to the Coleoptera and the Lepidoptera and, also, to bird's nests and eggs.
William Charles William Charles (1776-1820) was a Scottish-born engraver who immigrated to the United States and is now known best for his political cartoons, especially "The Hartford Convention or LEAP NO LEAP", perhaps the most widely printed illustration regarding that historic subject.
William Charles Anderson William Charles Anderson (born in La Junta, Colorado; May 7 1920 – May 16 2003) was the author of several novels and true life stories including Bat*21, Bomber Crew 369 and Lady Bluebeard. He served in the U.
William Charles Fitzgerald William "Bill" C. Fitzgerald (28 January 1938 - 7 August 1967) was a United States Navy officer who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, while serving as an advisor to the Republic of Vietnam Navy.
William Charles Fuller William Charles Fuller (1884 - December 29, 1974) was a Welsh 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 Charles Salmon William Charles Salmon was a American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on April 3, 1868 near Paris, Tennessee in Henry County.
William Charles Williams William Charles Williams (September 15, 1880-April 25, 1915) was an Welsh 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 Charles Winshaw William Charles Winshaw, was an American physician that created Stellenbosch Farmer’s Winery (SFW) in South Africa in 1935. He also co-owned the Oude Libertas vineyard there and produced Lieberstein, a dry white wine.
William Chatterton William Chatterton (born 27 December 1861 in Thornsett, Derbyshire, England; died 19 March 1913 in Flowery Field, Hyde, Cheshire, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire County Cricket Club between 1882 and 1902. He almost single-handedly was responsible for Derbyshire regaining first-class status.
William Cheung William Cheung (張卓興, Cheung Cheuk Hing in pinyin) (born 1940) is a famous Wing Chun Kung Fu practitioner and currently the "Grandmaster" of his version of the Wing Chun, entitled Traditional Wing Chun (TWC). He also heads the sanctioning body of TWC, the World Wing Chun Kung Fu Association.
William Cheung Suk Ping William Cheung Suk Ping 張叔平 is a famous Hong Kong film editor, production designer and art director, and along with cinematographer Christopher Doyle is an important collaborator with Hong Kong film director Wong Kar Wai. He has participated in all of Wong Kar Wai's films.
William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven (1657 – 1728) was a viscount in the Peerage of Ireland. From an ancient Buckinghamshire family he twice served as Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, the first time for six months in 1702 until opposed by the Whigs, the second time for two years from 1712 after which he lost the position on the succession of King George I.
William Chornopyski William Chornopyski (May 27, 1922-September 11, 2002) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was associated with the New Democratic Party of Manitoba for many years, but was elected to the provincial legislature in 1988 as a member of the Manitoba Liberal Party.

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