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William Sams William Gardner Sams (1792-1871) was appointed Under-Sheriff of Hobart in 1831 and later Sheriff and Commissioner of Insolvency of Launceston, Tasmania in 1840 . He was also one of fifteen investors in the pastoral company Port Phillip Association which played a key role in the foundation of the city of Melbourne.
William Sanders (statistician) William Sanders is a statistician at the University of Tennessee who developed the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System, also known as the Educational Value-Added Assessment System, a method for measuring a teacher's effect on student performance by tracking the progress of students against themselves over the course of their school career with their assignment to various teachers' classes.
William Sanders Scarborough William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 - September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920 after having been born into slavery.
William Sanderson William Sanderson is an American character actor (born January 10, 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA). He portrayed "Larry" in the United States TV show Newhart from 1982 to 1990, famous for the catch phrase, "Hi, I'm Larry.
William Sandys 'Waterworks Sandys' William Sandys of Fladbury (1607 - 1669) was known as Waterworks Sandys to distinguish him from his cousin, the spendthrift 'Golden Sandys'. His principal fame was as the waterworks engineer, who improved the River Avon, Warwickshire, England, and the River Wye, and who was involved in various ways in several other river navigation schemes.
William Sarjeant William Antony Swithin Sarjeant (1935 – July 2002), also known by the pen name Antony Swithin, was a professor of geology at University of Saskatchewan. He was also interested in mystery writing, fantasy writing, folk singing, and heritage preservation.
William Saroyan William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. These stories were popular during the Great Depression.
William Saunders Crowdy William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 - August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur, theologian, and pastor. As one of the earliest Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States, he re-established the Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896.
William Scoresby William Scoresby (5 october 1789 - 21 March 1857), English Arctic explorer, scientist and divine, was born near Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William Scoresby (1760 - 1829), made a fortune in the Arctic whale fishery.
William Scott Ferguson award The William Scott Ferguson Award was founded in 1951 through gifts from anonymous donors. The prize is awarded each year to the student or students who have written an outstanding essay for the sophomore tutorial at Harvard College.
William Scotton William Henry Scotton (born 15 January 1856 in Nottingham, England; died 9 July 1893 in St John's Wood, London, England) was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire and England. Scotton played his first match at Lord's for Sixteen Colts of England against the Marylebone Cricket Club on the 11th and 12th of May 1874, scoring on that occasion 19 and 0.
William Scranton, III William Worthington Scranton, III (born July 20, 1947 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) served as the Republican lieutenant governor of the state of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987 in the administration of Governor Richard Thornburgh. He is the son of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and a member of the wealthy and politically influential Scranton family, the founders of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
William Sealy Gosset William Sealy Gosset (June 13 1876 – October 16 1937) was a chemist and statistician, better known by his pen name Student. Born Canterbury, England to Agnes Sealy Vidal and Colonel Frederic Gosset, Gosset attended Winchester College, the famous private school, before reading chemistry and mathematics at New College, Oxford.
William Senhouse William Senhouse (died 1505), also called William Sever, was an English priest, successively Bishop of Carlisle, 1495–1502, and Bishop of Durham, 1502–1505. He was educated at the University of Oxford and became a Benedictine monk at St Mary's Abbey, York, being elected abbot in 1485.
William Seres William Seres was an English Protestant printer, starting work in about 1546, and working in partnership with John Day for a few years. Day and Seres specialized in religious works, such as those by Robert Crowley, which were largely related to theological controversies of the time.
William Seymour Tyler William Seymour Tyler (1810-1897) was the Amherst College, Massachusetts historian during his tenure as professor of Latin, Greek, and Greek literature from 1832-1893. He was born September 2, 1810 in Hartford, Pennsylvania, the son of Joab and Nabby née Seymour Tyler.
William Shakespeare (essay) William Shakespeare was an 1864 work by Victor Hugo, written in his 13th year of exile. When he began writing it, he intended for it to be an introduction for a collection of French translations of Shakespeare's plays written by his son, Francois Victor Hugo.
William Sharp (writer) William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 December 1905) was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona MacLeod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
William Shatner's musical career William Shatner's musical career has yielded a unique, much-criticized, and much-parodied body of work. Shatner, a vocalist, typically speaks the lyrics instead of singing them, typically as an exaggerated interpretive reading.
William Shea William Alfred "Bill" Shea (June 21, 1907 – October 2, 1991) was a lawyer who is best known for his part in the return of National League professional baseball to New York City after the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants after the 1957 season, and for the stadium that bears his name.
William Sheahan William Francis Sheahan (Billy Sheahan) (1895-1975)was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was a member for Yass from 1941-1950 and for Burrinjuck from 1950-1973 and held various ministerial portfolios.
William Shelton Sir William Jeremy Masefield Shelton commonly known as Bill Shelton (30 October 1929 – 2 January 2003) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Clapham from 1970 to 1974, then for Streatham from February 1974 until he lost the seat to Labour Party candidate Keith Hill in 1992.
William Shepard William Shepard (December 1, 1737 - November 16, 1817) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Westfield, he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and served in the French and Indian wars for six years.
William Sheridan Allen William Sheridan Allen wrote two books on Adolf Hitler debunking the point of view that he came to power through violence. Rather, Allen claims, Hitler's Nazi movement "seized power" in an act akin to democratic tactics.
William Shield William Shield (March 5, 1748 – January 25, 1829) was an English composer, violinist and violist who was born in Swalwell near Gateshead, the son of William Shield and his wife, Mary, nee Cash. There were Shields living in Swalwell at least as far back as 1696.
William Shipley William Shipley was a drawing master and social reformer from the English Midlands who, in 1754, founded what became the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, or Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce).
William Shirley William Shirley (1694-1771) was the British governor of Massachusetts from 1741 to 1759. He was to son of William and Elizabeth Godman Shirley, and was born on December 2, 1694 at Preston Manor in Sussex, England.
William Shirley Fulton William Shirley Fulton, (November 23, 1880; November 20, 1964), an archeologist and founder of the Amerind Foundation was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1903.
William Short (American ambassador) William Short (1759–1849) had been Thomas Jefferson's Private Secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, 1786–1789. Jefferson, later the third President of the United States of America, referred to Short as his “adoptive son”.
William Shubrick William Bradford Shubrick (31 October 1790 – 27 May 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy. His active-duty career extended from 1806 to 1861, including service in the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War; he retired in the early months of the Civil War.
William Schimmel William Schimmel is one of the principal architects in the resurgence of the accordion, the revival of the Tango in America, and the philosophy of "Musical Reality" (composition with pre-existing music). He holds Bachelor of Music, Master of Science and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Juilliard School and a diploma from the Neupauer Conservatory of Music.
William Schlumberger William Schlumberger was a European chess master, and hired by Bavarian musician and showman Johann Nepomuk Mälzel to operate The Turk, a chess-playing machine which purported to be an automaton. Schlumberger acted as the Turk's director in Europe and in the United States until his death from yellow fever in 1838.
William Schreyer In 1997, William Schreyer and his wife, Joan, endowed the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University (from where he graduated, class of 1948) through a gift of $30 million. The honors college was created in 1980 as the University Scholars Program.
William Sidney "Cap" Light William Sidney "Cap" Light was a Texas lawman from 1884 until his death in 1893, when he accidentally shot himself. He had a shining reputation, except for the period (1891-1892) when he worked for his brother-in-law, the infamous badman, Soapy Smith in Denver and Creede, Colorado.
William Sidney Mount William Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) born in Setauket, New York was a renowned genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School. Two of his more famous paintings are Eel Spearing at Setauket (1845, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown) and Bargaining for a Horse (1835, New-York Historical Society, New York City).
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, VC, KG, GCMG, GCVO, PC (23 May 1909–5 April 1991), 15th Governor-General of Australia, was the last British Governor-General. He was the son of the 5th Baron De L'Isle and Dudley, and came from one of England's oldest and most distinguished families.
William Sigei William Sigei (born October 11, 1969) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner who won the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1993 and 1994. In 1994 he a set a new world record over 10,000 metres in Oslo in 26:52,23 min.
William Simmons William Charles Simmons was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1906 to 1908 for the Alberta Liberal Party. He was elected in a by-election after Leverett DeVeber was appointed to the Canadian Senate.
William Sims William Sowden Sims (October 15, 1858 – September 25, 1936) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who sought during the late 19th and early 20th centuries to modernize the Navy. During World War I he commanded all United States naval forces operating in Europe.
William Skelhorn Blacksmith who reportedly lived in Mucklestone, Staffordshire, England in the 15th Century. Legend has it that he assisted in the escape of Queen Margaret of Anjou from the Battle of Blore Heath in 1459 by reversing the shoes of her horse.
William Sleator William Sleator (Feb 131945-) is a noted science fiction author who writes primarily for the so-called "junior adult" audience (pre-teens and adolescents), but has also occasionally written for younger audiences. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then trying to deal with the situation.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970) was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia. He fought in both World War I and World War II.
William Small William Small (October 13,1734–February 25, 1775) was born in Carmyllie, Forfarshire (now Angus), Scotland, the son of a Presbyterian minister, James Small and his wife Lillias Scott. He attended Marischal College, Aberdeen and received an MA in 1755.
William Smellie (encyclopedist) William Smellie ( born 1740 in Edinburgh, died 24 June 1795 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish encyclopedist, master printer, Fellow of the Royal Society and naturalist. He was friends with Robert Burns, whose assessment is engraved on Smellie's tombstone: "Here lies a man who did honour to human nature".
William Smith (chief justice) William Smith (June 25, 1728 – November 3, 1793) was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death. He was the son of Judge William Smith of New York and the brother of Joshua Hett Smith, the supposed “dupe” of Benedict Arnold and Major John André.
William Smith (judge) William Smith (1697–1769) was a judge of the Province of New York and the father of William Smith, Joshua Hett Smith, and Doctor Thomas Smith. In 1760, Smith was offered the position of chief justice of the province.
William Smith (Medal of Honor, 1869) William Smith was a private in the United States Army who won the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action at Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory on October 20, 1869 during the Indian Wars. He should not be confused with William H.
William Smith (shearer) William "Deucem" Smith (1896–1947) was known as one of the most talented sheep shearers in the world. His character and skill with the shears earned him a reputation as the greatest shearer of the first half of the twentieth century.
William Smith (swimmer) William Smith was a two-time gold medalist at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, winning the 400 meter men's freestyle and being a member of the winning United States team in the 4 x 200 meter men's freestyle relay.
William Smith O'Brien William Smith O'Brien (17 October 1803 – 18 June 1864) was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He claimed to be able to trace his ancestry back to the 11th century Ard Rí (High King of Ireland), Brian Boru.
William Smithers William Smithers (born 10 July 1927 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American actor, probably best known for his recurring role in the television series Dallas as Jeremy Wendell. He appeared in the series from 1984 to 1989.
William Snyder William Snyder is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and is currently the Director of Photography for The Dallas Morning News. Snyder won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989 along with reporter David Hanners and artist Karen Blessen for their special report on a 1985 airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air safety.
William Spain Seismic Observatory, Fordham University The William Spain Seismic Observatory is located in the Bronx, New York at the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University. Seismic recordings at this location are among the oldest in the nation, and the oldest in the region.
William Spence William Guthrie Spence (7 August 1846 - 13 December 1926), Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers Union, and the Australian Labor Party.
William Spiegel William Spiegel was an American and member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) who allowed his apartment to be used for photographic work to Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) as part of the secret apparatus conducting espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union in the 1930s which was supervised by Whittaker Chambers.
William Spottiswoode Trevor William Spottiswoode Trevor (9 October 1831-2 November 1907) was a 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 Squire William Squire (29 April 1916, Neath - 3 May 1989) was a Welsh actor of film and television. Some of his varied roles included Sir Daniel Brackley in the 1972 television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow, the voice of Gandalf in the 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings and the Shadow in the 1979 Doctor Who serial The Armageddon Factor,though perhaps his best-known role was as the superior of secret agent David Callan in the UK spy series Callan in the early 1970's.
William St. Lucien Chase Colonel William St. Lucien Chase VC CB (July 2, 1856 - June 24, 1908) was a 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 Stafford William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28,1993) was an American poet and pacifist, and the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He and his writings are sometimes identified with the Pacific Northwest.
William Stanlake William Stanlake (VC, DCM) (31 October 1830- 24 April 1904) 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 Stanley Jevons William Stanley Jevons (September 1, 1835 - August 13, 1882), English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book The Theory of Political Economy (1871) the "final" (marginal) utility theory of value.
William Stanyhurst William Stanyhurst (1602 – 1663), was a prolific author of Latin religious works, one of which, Dei immortalis in corpore mortali patientis historia, was widely popular, and was translated into many languages.
William States Lee III William States Lee III, popularly known as Bill Lee (born in Charlotte, North Carolina) in 1929 and was a Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University in Civil Engineering. After serving in the U.
William Stephen Raikes Hodson William Stephen Raikes Hodson (March 10, 1821 - March 11, 1858), known as "Hodson of Hodson's Horse," British leader of irregular light cavalry during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, third son of the Rev. George Hodson, afterwards archdeacon of Stafford and canon of Lichfield, was born at Maisemore Court, near Gloucester.
William Stephenson Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC , MC , DFC (January 23, 1897 – January 31, 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. Stephenson is best-known by his wartime intelligence codename of Intrepid.
William Sterling Parsons Rear Admiral William Sterling "Deak" Parsons (November 26, 1901 - December 5, 1953) was an American military engineer, best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay (at the time, he had the rank of Captain) which dropped the first atomic bomb on the Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.
William Stern William Lewis Stern (April 29, 1871 - March 27, 1938) was a German psychologist and philosopher noted as a pioneer in the field of the psychology of personality and intelligence. He was the inventor of the concept of the intelligence quotient, or IQ, later used by Lewis Terman and other researchers in the development of the first IQ tests, based on the work of Alfred Binet.
William Stevens Fielding William Stevens Fielding, PC (Halifax November 24, 1848-June 23, 1929 Ottawa) was a Canadian journalist, politician, and Premier of Nova Scotia. Fielding became leader of the anti-confederation Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
William Stewart (1737-1797) William Stewart (1737 – 8 October, 1797), of Castle Stewart, was a Scottish MP in the British Parliament. He was a member of a junior branch of the family of the Earl of Galloway, being the first son of John Stewart of Castle Stewart.
William Stewart Rose William Stewart Rose (1775 - 1843) was a British poet and translator, son of George Rose, who held various Government offices, including that of Treasurer of the Navy. After being educated at Eton College and the University of Cambridge, he was appointed Reading Clerk to the House of Lords.
William Stobbs William Stobbs (born June 27, 1914 in South Shields, England; died April 6, 2000) was an author and illustrator. From 1950 to 1958, he served as the head of the design department at the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades.
William Stokes William Stokes (1 October 1804 - 10 January 1878) was an Irish physician, who was Regius Professor of Physics at the University of Dublin. Educated in medicine at the Meath Hospital in Dublin, he went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases, A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest (1837), and The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta (1854), as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope.
William Stowell William Stowell (13 March 1885, Boston, Massachusetts – 24 November 1919, Belgian Congo), was a promising American silent film actor whose life was cut short in a railroad accident in the Belgian Congo in 1919.
William Strachey William Strachey (1572-1621) was an English writer and barrister, whose writings are among the primary sources for the history the English colonization of North America, and as one of the few narratives describing Powhatan society.
William Strang, 1st Baron Strang William Strang, 1st Baron Strang GCMG, KBE (2 January 1893—27 May, 1978) was a British diplomat who served as a leading adviser to the British government from the 1930s to the 1950s and as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953.
William Street, Melbourne William St is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly north-south from Flinders St to Victoria Street, and is located in the western half of the Hoddle Grid.
William Street, Perth William Street is a suburban distributor and one of two major cross-streets in Perth, Western Australia, commencing in western Mount Lawley. It is a one-way street from Brisbane Street to its terminus at The Esplanade, which takes it through the Northbridge cafe and clubbing district as well as Perth's central business district.
William Strickland (architect) William Strickland (1788 - April 6 1854), born in Navesink, New Jersey, was a noted architect in 19th century Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is noted as one of the founders of the Gothic revival movement when in 1823 he built Saint Stephen's Church in Philadelphia.
William Strickland (bishop) William Strickland (died 1419) was an English priest and Bishop of Carlisle from 1400 until 1419. He was appointed by Pope Boniface IX, but not initially accepted by King Henry IV, although he did confirm the appointment after the chapter had elected him.
William Stringfellow William Stringfellow (Johnston, Rhode Island, USA, 1929 – 1985) was a renowned lay theologian and modern day prophet. He managed to gain several scholarships and was accepted at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine at the age of fifteen.
William Strode William Strode (1598-1645), English parliamentarian, second son of Sir William Strode, of Newnham, Devon (a member of an ancient family long established in that county, which became extinct in 1897), and of Mary, daughter of Thomas Southcote of Bovey Tracey in Devon.
William Stroudley William Stroudley (March 6 1833 - December 20 1889) was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers of the nineteenth century, working principally for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR). He designed some of the most famous and longest lived locomotives, several of which have been preserved.
William Strunk Jr. William Strunk Jr. (July 1, 1869, Cincinnati, Ohio—September 26, 1946, Ithaca, New York) was Professor of English at Cornell University and is best known as the author of the first editions of The Elements of Style, a guide to English usage, which he had printed privately in 1918 for the use of his students.
William Strutt William Strutt (1825-1915) was born in England, later enjoying a student life in Paris, France, and England, studying figure and history painting. In response to a near-breakdown and problems with his eyes, Strutt decided to visit Australia, arriving in July 1850, where he married.
William Sturgis Bigelow William Sturgis Bigelow (1850-1926) was a doctor and great American collector of Japanese art. He was one of the first Americans to live in Japan, and to introduce the American public to Japanese art and culture.
William Suff William Suff (born August 20, 1950), also known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer and the Lake Elsinore Killer, is a Californian serial killer. In 1974, Suff and his then-wife were convicted of beating their two-month-old daughter to death in Texas.
William Summerlin William Summerlin worked at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York. He claimed that he could transplant tissue from unrelated animals by keeping the tissue in culture for four to six weeks.
William Sumner Appleton William Sumner Appleton (1874-1947) was Founder of the Society for the Protection of New England Antiquities (SPNEA) in 1910. He was the chief force behind much of the preservation of historic homes in the New England area.
William Sutherland (Canadian politician) William "Bill" Sutherland (died June 11, 1998) was a municipal politician in Toronto, Canada. He served on the North York City Council and the Metropolitan Toronto Council for several years, and challenged Mel Lastman for Mayor of North York in 1976.
William Sutherland (physicist) William Sutherland (1859 – 1911) was an Australian physicist and writer for The Age. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia and later graduated from Wesley College, the University of Melbourne, and University College London.
William Sutherland (soldier) William Sutherland was a British officer during the American Revolution. Lieutenant Sutherland, of the 38th Regiment of Foot, marched with the British troops, under the command of General Gage, from Boston, Massachusetts on the night of April 18, 1775 led by Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith.
William Sutton William Sutton (1830-16 February 1888) 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 Sutton (Southport) William Sutton (The Mad Duke) was a local forward thinking man from North Meols (North of Southport) who, in 1792, took advantage of the fashionable new trend of sea bathing by building a bathing house at South Hawes (2 miles south of Churchtown) and, realizing the importance of the newly created canal systems, gambled with the idea of a hotel by the seaside just 4 miles away from the newly constructed Leeds and Liverpool Canal to and from which he arranged transport for potential guests.
William Swain Lee William Swain Lee (born December 18, 1935) is an American lawyer and politician Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served as a judge of the Delaware Superior Court and was the 2004 Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware.
William Swann William Swann is a professor of social and personality psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is primarily known for his work on the self and self-esteem, but has also done research on relationships, social cognition, group processes, accuracy in person perception, interpersonal expectancy effects, blirtatiousness, personality and attitudes.
William Swift William Swift (March 17 1848—June 30 1919) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and briefly the Naval Governor of Guam in 1901. He was court-martialed in 1907 for the grounding of the battleship USS Connecticut (BB-18), but was later restored to high positions.
William Sydney Penley William Sydney Penley (November 19, 1852- 1912 ), English actor, was born at Broadstairs, and educated in London, where his father had a school. He first made his mark as a comedian by his exceedingly amusing performance as the curate in The Private Secretary, a part in which he succeeded Beerborn Tree; but he is even more associated with the title role in Brandon Thomas's Charley's Aunt (1892), a farce which had an unprecedented long run and was acted all over the world.
William Sykes (clergyman) William Sykes (24 July 1861–24 August 1930), born Barrow-in-Furness, was first Curate of St John's Church, Tunbrdige Wells; Vicar of Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield, 1895–1919; Vicar of Audley, Staffordshire, 1919–1928; first President of the Sovereign Grace Union 1913–1930.
William the Dean William the Dean was a 13th century bishop of Dunkeld. He had been a dean of the diocese of Dunkeld, and was elected to the bishopric when news of the death of bishop-elect Hugo de Strivelin arrived from Rome.
William the Silent William I of Orange-Nassau (April 24, 1533 – July 10, 1584), also widely known as William the Silent (), was born in the House of Nassau, and became Prince of Orange in 1544. He was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years' War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648.

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