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William Arthur (surveyor)
William Arthur may refer to: * William Arthur (botanist) (fl. 1715), Scottish botanist * William Arthur (clergyman) (1796–1875), Irish-born American Baptist minister and father of President Chester A. Arthur * William Arthur (minister) (1819–1901), Wesleyan Methodist minister and author * William Arthur (mathematician) (1894–1979), British mathematician * William Brian Arthur (born 1945), a.k.a. W. Brian Arthur, Irish economist * William Evans Arthur (1825–1897), U.S. politician * William Arthur (Royal Navy) William Arthur (4 July 1830 – 15 November 1886) was a Royal Navy officer after whom Port Arthur in China was named. Career Arthur entered the navy at age fifteen in July 1845. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant on 8 March 1854, and two yea ... (1830–1886), British naval officer * William Hemple Arthur (1856–1936), American general and doctor * Bill Arthur (1918–1982), Australian politician See also * {{hndis, Arthur, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Arthur (botanist)
William Arthur (1680 - 1716) was a Scottish doctor who served as Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden and King's Botanist at Edinburgh. Shortly afterwards he was deeply implicated in the Jacobite rising of 1715. He fled to Italy, where he died the following year "from a surfeit of figs." Early life William was born in Elie, Fifeshire in 1680 to Patrick Arthur of Ballone, a surgeon and apothecary and Commissioner of Supply for Fifeshire. His mother was Margaret Sharp, a relative of Archbishop James Sharp of St. Andrews who had been assassinated in Fife in 1679. William travelled to Utrecht in the early 18th century to study medicine under Dutch physician and "father of physiology", Herman Boerhaave. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine in March 1707 and returned to his native Scotland, initially practising medicine in Elie. He relocated to Edinburgh in 1713 and was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians, being made a Fellow in 1714. Marriage He married Barbara Clerk in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Arthur (clergyman)
William Arthur (5 December 1796 – ) was an Irish-born American Baptist minister and abolitionist. He was the father of the twenty-first president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur. Life William Arthur was born on 5 December 1796 in Ballymena Borough, County Antrim. His parents names were Alan Arthur and Eliza MacHerg. Alan Arthur was the namesake for his grandson's middle name. William Arthur graduated from Belfast College, came to the United States, studied law for a short time, and was then called to the Baptist ministry. After preaching in Vermont and western New York, he was settled as pastor of the Calvary Baptist church of Albany, N. Y., where he remained from 1855 to 1863. He afterward removed to Schenectady Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New Y ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baptists
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only ( believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency (the responsibility and accountability of every person before God), ''sola fide'' (salvation by just faith alone), ''sola scriptura'' (scripture alone as the rule of faith and practice) and congregationalist church government. Baptists generally recognize two ordinances: baptism and communion. Diverse from their beginning, those identifying as Baptists today differ widely from one another in what they believe, how they worship, their attitudes toward other Christians, and their understanding of what is important in Christian discipleship. For example, Baptist theology may include Arminian or Calvinist beliefs with various sub-groups holding different or competing positions, while others allow for diversity in this matter within t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Arthur (minister)
William Arthur (3 February 1819 – 21 March 1901) was an Irish Wesleyan Methodist minister and author. Biography Born at Newport, in County Mayo, eight miles from Castlebar, Arthur was educated at Horton College, and at the age of twenty was sent to Goobbee, in Southern India, where he was engaged for several years in missionary work in the Mysore.''The Irish Nation: its history and its biography, Volume 4'' (1876), p. 557-58. While there his progress in the Canarese language is said to have been remarkable; but being threatened with blindness, he was obliged to return to Europe, and was employed for three years in advocating with much ability the Indian missionary work of the Wesleyan Society. He acted in his ministerial capacity in Paris from 1846 to 1849; then for seventeen years he filled the post of secretary to the Methodist Missionary Society. In 1867 he was elected Principal of the Methodist College Belfast, and continued to fill that office until 1871, when he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Arthur (mathematician)
William Arthur FRSE MC (12 January 1894 – 22 February 1979) was a Scottish mathematician. Life He was born on 12 January 1894 at Fergushill near Kilwinning in Ayrshire. He studied at Queen's Park High School in Glasgow then studied Mathematics at Glasgow University graduating MA in 1915. As most, his career was interrupted by the First World War during which he served in the Welsh Guards. He won the Military Cross for his bravery. When demobbed in 1919 he began lecturing in mathematics at Glasgow University. He rose to Senior Lecturer. In 1921 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Alexander Gibson, Andrew Gray, James Gordon Gray, and Robert Alexander Houston. He retired in 1959 but then went to teach in America, at Bethany College in West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brian Arthur
William Brian Arthur (born 31 July 1945) is an economist credited with developing the modern approach to increasing returns. He has lived and worked in Northern California for many years. He is an authority on economics in relation to complexity theory, technology and financial markets. He has been on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at the Intelligent Systems Lab at PARC. He is credited with the invention of the El Farol Bar problem. Biography W. Brian Arthur was born in 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering at Queen's University Belfast (1966), an M. A. in Operational Research (1967), at Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, and an M. A. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1969). Arthur received his PhD in Operations Research (1973) and an M. A. in Economics (1973) from the University of California, Berkeley. At age 37, Dr. Arthur was the youngest endowed chair holder at S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Evans Arthur
William Evans Arthur (March 3, 1825 – May 18, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Early life and family William E. Arthur was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 3, 1825."Arthur, William Evans". ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress'' He was the son of William and Eliza (Parsons) Arthur.''Biographical Cyclopedia'', p. 24 In 1832, the family moved to Covington, Kentucky. Two years later, Arthur's father died. Arthur received his early education in private schools and from private tutors in Covington and Harford County, Maryland. He then studied law under John W. Stevenson and James Turner Morehead. He was admitted to the bar in 1850 and commenced practice in Covington. In 1855, Arthur married Addie Southgate, daughter of former Congressman William Wright Southgate. His first wife died in 1858, and in December 1860, Arthur married her younger sister Etha Southgate. The couple had two children – a son named Sidney and a daughter named May. Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Arthur (Royal Navy)
William Arthur (4 July 1830 – 15 November 1886) was a Royal Navy officer after whom Port Arthur in China was named. Career Arthur entered the navy at age fifteen in July 1845. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant on 8 March 1854, and two years later in 1856, he acquired his first experience of command on the gunboat HMS ''Manly''. On 4 June 1858 he was given command of the gunvessel HMS ''Algerine''. In August 1860, during the Second Opium War, Port Arthur was named by Commander John Ward of HMS ''Actaeon'', after Lt. Arthur, whose ''Algerine'' was the first British ship to enter the harbour at Lüshun, at that time an unfortified fishing village. The British referred to Lüshun as Port Arthur from this point on, and the Russians and other Western powers adopted the British name. Port Arthur was a fortified harbour city which changed hands several times, variously occupied by Britain, Imperial Russia, Japan and the Soviet Union before returning to Chinese ownership in 1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hemple Arthur
William Hemple Arthur (April 1, 1856 – April 19, 1936) was a doctor, army officer, and later an American Brigadier general active during World War I.Marquis Who's Who, Inc. ''Who Was Who in American History, the Military''. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1975.P.17 Early life Arthur was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received an M.D. from the University of Maryland in 1877. Career In 1881, Arthur was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army.Davis, Henry Blaine. ''Generals in Khaki''. Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, 1998. P. 13 On February 18, 1886 Arthur was promoted to captain-assistant surgeon. From 1899 to 1900, he commanded a hospital ship during the Spanish–American War. He was with the China Relief Expedition of 1900, then was in the Philippines from 1900 to 1902. He also served assignments in Soldiers Home and Walter Reed Army Medical Center The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC)known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
