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William Burgess (colonist)
William Burgess may refer to: * William Burgess (cricketer) (1888–1970), English cricketer * William Burgess (painter) (died 1812), English painter * William Burgess (politician) (1847–1917), member of the Tasmanian Parliament * Bill Burgess (rugby league, born 1897), English rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s * Bill Burgess (rugby, born 1939), English rugby union, and rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s * William Burgess (sailor) (born 1930), Canadian yacht racer * William J. Burgess (died 1996), American politician * William Oakley Burgess (died 1844), engraver * William Starling Burgess (1878–1947), American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect * H. William Burgess (1929–2016), Hawaiian lawyer * Ron Burgess (footballer) (William Arthur Ronald Burgess, 1917–2005), Welsh international association football player, and later manager See also * Bill Burgess (other) * William Burges (1827–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burgess (cricketer)
William Arthur Burgess (31 January 1888 at Williton, Somerset – 20 June 1970 at Minehead, Somerset), played seven first-class cricket matches for Somerset County Cricket Club, Somerset in 1921 and 1922. Biography Burgess was a right-handed middle order batsman and a left-arm bowler. He passed 50 in an innings only once, making 79 and sharing in a fourth wicket partnership of 128 with Ulick Considine in the match against Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Worcestershire at County Ground, Taunton, Taunton in July 1921. See also William Burgessat www.cricketarchive.com References {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgess, William English cricketers Somerset cricketers 1888 births 1970 deaths People from West Somerset (district) Cricketers from Somerset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burgess (painter)
William Burgess (c.1749 – 1812) was an English artist. Life The son of Thomas Burgess of the Maiden Lane Academy, he was a painter and art teacher. He showed at the Royal Academy between 1774 and 1811, and also at the Society of Artists and the Free Society of Artists. His exhibited works included portraits (some noted as drawings in the catalogues), drawings of animals, and landscapes, many of them of Welsh subjects. London addresses are given throughout his career: in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden; Kemp's Town Chelsea; Gloucester Street, Queen's Square; Great Maddox Street; Piccadilly; Michael's Grove, Brompton, and finally, from 1797, Sloane Square, Chelsea. He died in London in 1812, aged 63. His son, H. W. Burgess, was landscape painter to William IV William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burgess (politician)
William Henry Burgess (21 May 1847 – 1 May 1917) was an Australian politician and businessman. Burgess was born in Hobart and was educated at the High School, Hobart, and at Horton College, Ross. He began his career as a grocer but believing the administration needed improvement he stood as a City of Hobart alderman in 1876, winning the election. He became Mayor of Hobart in 1879 and in 1881 he stood for parliament, being elected House of Assembly member for West Hobart. He became Treasurer of Tasmania from 1884 to March 1887 under Premier Adye Douglas and James Agnew. Burgess, who was the recognised Leader of the Opposition to the Philip Fysh Ministry, was a captain unattached in the Tasmanian Defence Force. He was one of the Tasmanian delegates to the Federation Convention held at Sydney in 1891. In August 1891, owing to the stoppage of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land, with the management of which he was identified, Burgess resigned his seat in the Executive Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Burgess (rugby League, Born 1897)
William Burgess (second ¼ 1897 – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Lancashire, and at club level for Barrow, as a , i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums. Background Bill Burgess' birth was registered in Barrow-in-Furness district, Lancashire, England. International honours Bill Burgess won caps for England while at Barrow in 1923 against Wales, in 1924 against Other Nationalities, in 1925 against Wales (2 matches), in 1926 against Wales, and Other Nationalities, in 1928 against Wales, and in 1930 against Other Nationalities, and won caps for Great Britain while at Barrow in 1924 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (3 matches), in 1926–27 against New Zealand (3 matches), in 1928 against Australia (3 matches), and New Zealand (2 matches), and in 1929–30 against Australia (2 matches). Honoured at Barrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Burgess (rugby, Born 1939)
William Burgess (birth registered first ¼ 1939) is an English former rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Lancashire, and at club level for Furness RUFC and Fylde, and representative level rugby league (RL) for , |
William Burgess (sailor)
William George Burgess (26 October 1930 – 14 April 2022) was a Canadian Sailing (sport), yacht racer who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Burgess died in Vancouver on 14 April 2022, at the age of 91. References 1930 births 2022 deaths Sailors (sport) from Vancouver Canadian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Canada Sailors at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Star {{Canada-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William J
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Oakley Burgess
William Oakley Burgess (22 April 1816 – 24 December 1844) was an English mezzotint engraver. Life Burgess was the son of Mary Oakley and Dr. Joseph Henry Burgess, the surgeon to the parish of St Giles in the Fields, London, where Burgess was baptised on 21 May 1816. He became a pupil of mezzotint engraver Thomas Goff Lupton and remained under his tuition until the age of 20. Some of his best productions are plates after the works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, published in the "Lawrence Gallery". He also engraved a large plate after Lawrence's portrait of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington, remarkable for its admirably graduated tones, and the last works on which he was employed were three other portraits after Lawrence — John Moore (British Army officer), Sir John Moore, the Duke of Northumberland, Duchess of Northumberland, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The extraordinary delicacy which characterizes the work of this artist must have acquired for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Starling Burgess
William Starling Burgess (December 25, 1878 – March 19, 1947) was an American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect. He was awarded the highest prize in aviation, the Collier Trophy in 1915, just two years after Orville Wright won it. In 1933 he partnered with Buckminster Fuller to design and build the radical Dymaxion Car. Between 1930 and 1937 he created three America's Cup winning J-Class yachts, Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger (the latter in partnership with Olin Stephens). Biography Burgess was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Christmas Day, the son of yacht designer Edward Burgess and Caroline "Kitty" Sullivant. Both of Burgess' parents died within weeks of each other when he was 12, leaving him and his 3-year-old brother to be raised by relatives. Like his father, Starling had a great mechanical and mathematical ability and a refined sense of line, form and spatial relationship. From his mother he received a love of literature and poetry, which he regard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Burgess (footballer)
William Arthur Ronald Burgess (9 April 1917 – 14 February 2005) was a Wales international association football, footballer, who played in the wing half position. Playing career Cardiff took Burgess on as a teenager, but chose not to sign him, so he worked as a miner for a while, and played inside-right for his local team Cwm Villa. He scored 59 goals in one season, which attracted the attention of the chief scout of Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur. He was invited to join the club as an unpaid junior, but found him a job as a metal worker in Chingford. In 1937, Tottenham decided to release him, although before he left for home, he played in a junior match and scored twice, which changed the mind of the club's manager Jack Tresadern, and he was then invited to join the Tottenham nursery club at Northfleet where he played with Bill Nicholson (footballer), Bill Nicholson while working as a groundstaff boy at Tottenham. He later joined the Tottenham reserves, then started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Burgess (other)
Bill Burgess (1872–1950) was the second person to successfully complete a swim of the English Channel. Bill Burgess may also refer to: * Bill Burgess (American football) (1941–2023), American football player and coach * Bill Burgess (rugby, born 1939), English rugby union and rugby league footballer * Bill Burgess (rugby league, born 1897) William Burgess (second ¼ 1897 – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Lancashire, and at club level for ... (1897–?), English rugby league footballer See also * William Burgess (other) {{hndis, Burgess, Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burges
William Burges (; 2 December 1827 – 20 April 1881) was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he sought in his work to escape from both nineteenth-century industrialisation and the Neoclassical architectural style and re-establish the architectural and social values of a utopian medieval England. Burges stands within the tradition of the Gothic Revival, his works echoing those of the Pre-Raphaelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts movement. Burges's career was short but illustrious; he won his first major commission for Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork in 1863 when he was 35. He died in 1881 at his Kensington home, The Tower House aged only 53. His architectural output was small but varied. Working with a long-standing team of craftsmen, he built churches, a cathedral, a warehouse, a university, a school, houses and castles. Burges's most notable works are Cardiff Castle, constructed between 1866 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
