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Bill Roberts (director)
William, Will or Bill Roberts may refer to: Entertainment * William Roberts (biographer) (1767–1849), English barrister and legal writer * William Harris Lloyd Roberts (1884–1955), Canadian writer, poet, and playwright * William Roberts (painter) (1895–1980), British painter and war artist * Will Roberts (1907–2000), British painter * William Roberts (screenwriter) (1913–1997), American screenwriter * Billy Roberts (1936–2017), American songwriter and musician * William Owen Roberts (born 1960), Welsh language novelist and playwright * Rick Ross (born 1976), American rapper, born William Leonard Roberts II * Will Roberts (fiction), fictional character in the TV soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'' Politics * William Roberts (Parliamentarian) (1605–1662), British MP and father of Sir William Roberts, 1st Baronet * William Roberts (Australian politician) (1821–1900), New South Wales politician * William R. Roberts (1830–1897), U.S. Representative from New York * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roberts (biographer)
William Roberts (1767 – 21 May 1849) was an English barrister and legal writer, an evangelical journal editor and the first biographer of Hannah More. Life William Roberts was born in Newington Butts. He was educated at Eton College, Eton, St Paul's School (London), St Paul's and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he gained his BA in 1788 and MA in 1791. He toured the Continent (including Paris) before returning to England and founding a short-lived biweekly journal, ''The Looker-on'' (1792-1793) under the pseudonym Rev. Simon Olive-Branch. Entering the law, he wrote several legal treatises. He married Elizabeth Anne Sidebotham, daughter of a Middle Temple barrister, who bore him ten children. From 1811 to 1822 he was editor of the ''British Review, and London Critical Journal'', founded by the evangelical lawyer John Weyland and published by John Hatchard, an evangelical Tory publisher with offices at Piccadilly. When Canto I of ''Don Juan (poem), Don Juan'' made the facetious ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |