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Peter Williams (musician)
Peter or Pete Williams may refer to: Academics *Peter Williams (musicologist) (1937–2016), English musicology professor and Bach scholar *Peter Williams (educationalist) (born 1948), British educationalist * Peter Damian Williams (born 1957), Australian historian Arts and entertainment *Peter Williams (dance critic) (1914–1995), English ballet critic and writer * Peter Williams (actor, born 1915) (1915–2003), American-British actor * Jim Bowen (Peter Williams, 1937–2018), English stand-up comedian * Peter Williams (painter) (1952–2021), American painter *Pete Williams (journalist) (born 1952), American journalist and television correspondent *Peter Williams (broadcaster) (born 1954), New Zealand television presenter * Peter Williams (actor, born 1957), Jamaican-born actor *Pete Williams (musician) (born 1960), English musician *Peter Llewellyn Williams (born 1964), British stage and television actor *Pete Williams (fl. 2001), creator of the animated sitcom ''Undergrads'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (musicologist)
Peter Williams (14 May 1937 – 20 March 2016) was an English musicologist, author, harpsichordist, organist, and professor. Williams was considered one of the leading scholars on the organ and the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Life and education Peter Fredric Williams was born in Wolverhampton, England, Wolverhampton, England on 14 May 1937 to a Methodist family. He received a Bachelor of Arts (1958), Bachelor of Music (1959), Master of Arts (1962), and a PhD (1963) at St John's College, Cambridge, St. John's College in Cambridge. Williams became a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in 1962, eventually becoming a Reader (academic rank), reader in 1972, then a professor ten years later, where he held the first chair in performance practice in the UK. He was made Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1985. Here, he was also chairman of the music department (1985–1988), university organist (1985–1990), and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (Welsh Methodist)
Peter Williams (15 January 1723 – 8 August 1796) was a prominent leader of Welsh Methodism in the eighteenth century, best known for publishing Welsh-language bibles and bible commentary. Personal life Williams was born on 15 January 1723 at West Marsh Farm in Laugharne in Carmarthenshire, the son of Owen and Elizabeth Williams. While a student at Carmarthen Grammar School in 1743, he was converted to Methodism after hearing a sermon by George Whitefield. For a short time, he was the schoolmaster at Cynwyl Elfed. He was ordained a deacon in 1745. In 1748, he married Mary Jenkins. He had two children Eliezer Williams (1754-1820) and Peter Bailey Williams (1763-1836). Career He was refused ordination as a priest due to his Methodist beliefs and became associated with Water Street Chapel Carmarthen. He joined the Methodists in 1747 and began to tour the country preaching. He began to publish copies of Welsh language bibles at an affordable price. The first edition was publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (English Footballer)
Peter John Williams (21 October 1931 – 13 July 2021) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a winger. Williams died in Nottinghamshire on 13 July 2021, at the age of 89. References Sources * 1931 births 2021 deaths Footballers from Nottingham English men's footballers Men's association football wingers South Normanton Athletic F.C. players Derby County F.C. players Boston United F.C. players Chesterfield F.C. players Arnold F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-midfielder-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (rugby Union, Born 1884)
Peter Williams (22 April 188430 August 1976) was a rugby union player who represented New Zealand nine times, including a single Test match. He played club rugby for Dunedin side Alhambra, and played provincial rugby for Otago between 1908 and 1914. His sole season of international rugby was 1913, when he played in a home Test against Australia before touring North America with the All Blacksas New Zealand's international team is knownthat same year. He was selected for a tour of Australia the following year, but was unavailable and so did not play. During World War I Williams enlisted as a gunner in the New Zealand Field Artillery in late 1914, but, following illness in Egypt in 1915, he was invalided back to New Zealand and discharged as medically unfit to serve in 1916. Following the death of Billy Wallace in 1972, Williams held the distinction of being the oldest living All Black. He died in Mosgiel on 30 August 1976, and was buried in Geraldine Geraldine may refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (South African Cricketer)
Peter Williams (28 September 1957 – 26 May 2014) was a South African cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. He played first-class cricket for Eastern Province and Natal between 1978 and 1989. References External links * 1957 births 2014 deaths South African cricketers Eastern Province cricketers KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Cricketers from Pietermaritzburg {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (Australian Cricketer)
Peter David Williams (born 9 February 1942) is an Australian former cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...er. A right-handed batsman and an occasional wicket-keeper, he played four first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1965 and 1966. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers References External links * 1942 births Living people Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne People from Brighton, Victoria {{Australia-cricket-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (Irish Cricketer)
Peter Victor Williams (10 July 1897 – 1 April 1971) was an Irish cricketer active from 1919 to 1927 who played for Sussex. He was born in Dublin and died in Auckland, New Zealand. He appeared in 23 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the ball with a bat to score runs and prevent the loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since September 2021, officially referred to as a batter (historically, the ... who sometimes kept wicket. He scored 810 runs with a highest score of 146 and completed 13 catches with two stumpings. Notes 1897 births 1971 deaths Cricketers from County Dublin Irish cricketers British Army cricketers Combined Services cricketers Sussex cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (Australian Footballer, Born 1957)
Peter Williams (born 14 December 1957) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Williams, a Waverley recruit, made seven appearances for Richmond, all in the 1979 VFL season The 1979 VFL season was the 83rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 31 March until 29 September, and comprised a .... A ruck-rover, Williams debuted in round six, against North Melbourne. He next played in round 12, the first of six successive games. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Peter 1957 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players Waverley Football Club players Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (Australian Footballer, Born 1944)
Peter Williams (born 10 October 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL). A Wonthaggi recruit, Williams played seven senior games for Fitzroy, four in the 1965 VFL season The 1965 VFL season was the 69th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 17 April until 25 September, and comprised an ... and three in the 1966 season. He was used as a half forward and rover.'' The Age''"Cole back in Fitzroy line-up" 9 July 1965, p. 11 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Peter 1944 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Fitzroy Football Club players Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (Australian Footballer, Born 1867)
Peter Francis Williams (15 April 1867 – 3 March 1949) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the VFA and Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). He was appointed captain of Carlton in 1894, but resigned after Carlton finished last. During the season, he had upset club officials after he and a teammate failed to appear for a match against Collingwood. Carlton retained him as a player for 1895, even though he had considered crossing to North Melbourne, but was injured in Round 9 and missing the remainder of that season and all of 1896. He was 30 years old when the VFL began in 1897, and he made his VFL debut in Round 2 against South Melbourne, his first game in 18 months. He played 11 matches that year, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Francis Williams
Peter Francis Williams is an amateur astronomer from New South Wales, Australia. He specializes in early detection of declines in R Coronae Borealis-type stars and the long-term monitoring of several southern Mira variables and eclipsing binary stars. He was the first person who detected the naked-eye Nova A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramati ... known as V382 Velorum in 1999 and seven years later he discovered the Nova Ophiuchi 2006. Both discoveries brought him the Nova/Supernova Award of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. In 2007 he received the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He is a life member of the Sutherland Astronomical Society. References Living people 20th-century Australian astronomers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Williams (physicist)
Sir Peter Michael Williams, (born 22 March 1945) is a British physicist. Education Williams was educated at Hymers College and completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1966, and his PhD at Selwyn College, Cambridge, with a thesis entitled ''"Defect structure and luminescent properties of semiconductors"'' in 1969. Career He began an academic career at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He then moved to industry and worked first at VG Instruments and later Oxford Instruments. He was chairman of Oxford Instruments from 1991 until his retirement in 1999. Sir Peter is currently chairman of the National Physical Laboratory and vice-president and treasurer of the Royal Society. He was previously master of St Catherine's College, Oxford (2000–2002), president of the Institute of Physics (2000–2002), president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (2002–2003) and chairman of the UK's Engineering and Technology Board (2001–2006). He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |