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William Burke (other)
William Burke may refer to: * William Burke (pirate) (died 1699), Irish pirate active in the Caribbean, associate of William Kidd * William Burke (Burke and Hare murders) (1792–1829), Irish-Scots serial killer * William Burke (author) (1729–1798), English pamphleteer * William J. Burke (1862–1925), American politician and businessman * William Burke (baseball) (1865–1939), 19th-century baseball player * W. Lewis Burke (born 1948; born William Lewis Burke) American educator, historian * William L. Burke (1941–1996), astronomy, astrophysics, and physics professor at UC Santa Cruz * William Burke Miller (1904–1983), newspaper and radio reporter * William Burke (prior) (c. 1611–c. 1685), Irish Dominican * William Malachy Burke (1819–1879), Irish physician and Registrar General * William H. Burke, head coach of the College of William & Mary's football team in 1899 * William H. Burke Jr. (1906–1975), American political figure * William mac Ulick Burke, 4th Clanricarde o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke (pirate)
William Burke (died 1699, first name occasionally Thomas, last name occasionally Burk, Burt, Bourck, Burch, or Burcke) was an Irish pirate and trader active in the Caribbean and near Newfoundland, best known for aiding William Kidd. History Burke had been active through early 1699 as a pirate off Newfoundland in his 140-man, 24-gun ship ''Marigold''. He was known to colonial governors as "very strong, and said to have a good ship". After menacing the Newfoundland fishing fleets he sailed to the Caribbean, trading slaves between Barbados and Curacao. In May 1699 he visited Governor Lorentz of St. Thomas offering to fence goods from William Kidd, who had been in the area to sell off his remaining plunder and sell or replace his leaking ship ''Quedagh Merchant'' (which Kidd had renamed ''Adventure Prize''). Burke had purchased Kidd's pirated loot just a few weeks earlier, before Kidd left for New York to try clearing his name. The Governor had already rebuffed Kidd's entreaties an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
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] |
Billy Burke (other)
Billy Burke or similar names may refer to: *Billie Burke (1884–1970), American stage and screen actress *Billy Burke (actor) (born 1966), American actor *Billy Burke (criminal) or William "Billy the Kid" Burke *1858–1919), American gangster *Billy Burke (evangelist) (born 1953), Pentecostal faith healer *Billy Burke (firefighter) (1955–2001), sacrificed his life when the World Trade Centers collapsed *Bill Burke (photographer) (born 1943), American documentary photographer Athletes *Bill Burke (athlete) (born 1969), American middle-distance runner * Billy Burke (baseball) (1889–1967), Major League Baseball player *Billy Burke (golfer) (1902–1972), professional golfer *Billy Burke (hurler) (1912–1995), Irish hurler *Willie Burke (born 1972), Irish footballer Fictional characters *Billy Burke, a character played by Treat Williams in ''The Devil's Own'' *Billy Burke, a character in the Irish novel series ''Zom-B ''Zom-B'' (alternatively known as the ''Zom-B Chronicles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke-White
William Burke-White is an American law professor and policy advisor. He was the Inaugural Director of Perry World House, an interdisciplinary global policy research institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Education He graduated from Harvard in 1998 with an A.B. in Russian and American History and Literature and obtained a M.Phil. in international relations at Cambridge in 1999. Burke-White earned a J.D. at the Harvard Law School in 2002 and returned to Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar where he completed his Ph.D. in international relations in 2006. Career From 2003–05 he taught at Princeton University and served as special assistant to Anne-Marie Slaughter. In 2005, Burke-White became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 2009–11 he was on leave to serve as a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is the principal drafter of the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. In 2010 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Burke
Willie Burke (born 4 September 1972 in Dublin) is an Irish former footballer. He made his League of Ireland debut for Shamrock Rovers at home to Waterford United at the RDS Arena on 8 November 1992. In July 1993 he was part of a Rovers side that won an International Football Festival in Manchester. In his second season at the club he won the League scoring once in 30 league appearances as well as making two appearances in European competition. He signed for St Patrick's Athletic F.C. in 1995 where he stayed for eight seasons winning a further 3 League titles. Honours * League of Ireland: 4 ** Shamrock Rovers 1993/94 **St Patrick's Athletic F.C. 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99 * League of Ireland Cup: 1 ** St Patrick's Athletic F.C. 2000/01 *FAI Super Cup: 1 ** St Patrick's Athletic F.C. 1999 * Leinster Senior Cup: 1 ** St Patrick's Athletic F.C. 2000 *LFA President's Cup: 1 ** St Patrick's Athletic F.C. 1996/97 * SRFC Young Player of the Year: ** Shamrock Rovers Shamroc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke, Lord Of Bealatury
William Burke, Lord of Bealatury (fl. 1580s-1616) was an Irish noble and soldier who served in Spain, and later in Ireland during the Nine Years' War. Career Burke was a member of the Burke family of Clanricarde, in what is now County Galway. He was one of five brothers who left Ireland to enrol in Spanish service in the late 1580s. The five were sons of John na Seamar Burke (died 1583) and nephews of Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde (died 1601). The eldest of the family was Redmond Burke, Baron Leitrim. They were in Ireland in time to participate in the Nine Years' War (Ireland). Philip O'Sullivan Beare relates that in 1599 William Burke secured a victory over "English recruits clad in red coats" ().''Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium'' by Philip O'Sullivan Beare (1621), Tome III, Bk V, Chap IV, translated as ''Ireland Under Elizabeth'' by Matthew J. Byrne (1903). See p. 118 of Byrne's translation Both William and Redmond were "some of the chiefs who were along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke, 7th Earl Of Clanricarde
William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, PC (Ire) (; ; died 1687), was an Irish peer who fought in his youth together with his brother Richard, 6th Earl of Clanricarde under their cousin, Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde against the Parliamentarians in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He succeeded his brother as the 7th Earl in 1666. Birth and origins William was a younger son of Sir William Burke and his wife Joan. His father was the third son of Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde. William's mother was a daughter of Dermot O'Shaugnessy of Gort. William was the younger of two brothers: #Richard (died 1666), became the 6th Earl of Clanricarde #William (died 1687) It is likely that he also had sisters, but nothing seems to be known about them. First marriage His first wife was Lettice Shirley, daughter of Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Baronet, by Lady Dorothy Devereux and granddaughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. She was born abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mac Ulick Burke
William mac Ulick Burke, 4th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar (Upper Mac William) (; ; died 1430) was an Irish chieftain and noble. William succeeded his elder brother, Ulick an Fhiona Burke, as chieftain. He was later succeeded by his nephew, Ulick;s son, Ulick Ruadh Burke, 5th Clanricarde. William's era is one of the more obscure reigns of a Clanricarde. The Annals of the Four Masters have only two references to his term: * ''1424. Mac William of Clannrickard (Ulick Burke) died in his own house, after having vanquished the Devil and the world.'' * ''1430. An army was led by Mac William of Clanrickard, Mac Donough of Tirerrill, and Brian, the son of Donnell, son of Murtough O'Conor of Sligo, into Conmaicne Cuile, where they caused great conflagrations, and slew Hugh, son of O'Conor Roe, and Carbry, the son of Brian O'Beirne; and then they returned home in triumph.'' Only in ''A New History of Ireland'' IX does it give his year of death as 1430. His successor, Ulick Ruadh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Malachy Burke
William Malachy Burke (4 August 1819 – 13 August 1879) was an Irish physician and Registrar General. Biography Burke was born at Ballydugan, near Loughrea, County Galway, the third son of William Malachy Burke (1784–1853), a Barrister-at-law, High Sheriff Co. Galway 1822, and Anna Maria, only daughter of John Blake of Windfield. Both the Blakes and the Burkes were old Galway families, the Burkes descending from Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught (died 1242) and the Blakes being one of the Tribes of Galway. After receiving his medical education at St George's Hospital, London, in 1842, Burke passed MRCS at the London College of Surgeons. He became a Licenciate (LKQCP) in Ireland in June 1847, and on 19 October 1863, a Fellow of the King's and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland. He served as a physician at Steevens' Hospital, Dublin, and he was also Physician in Ordinary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for the years 1866–68 and 1874–76. Burke was a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke (Burke And Hare Murders)
The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. Edinburgh was a leading European centre of anatomical study in the early 19th century, in a time when the demand for cadavers led to a shortfall in legal supply. Scottish law required that corpses used for medical research should only come from those who had died in prison, suicide victims, or from foundlings and orphans. The shortage of corpses led to an increase in body snatching by what were known as "resurrection men". Measures to ensure graves were left undisturbed—such as the use of mortsafes—exacerbated the shortage. When a lodger in Hare's house died, he turned to his friend Burke for advice and they decided to sell the body to Knox. They received what was, for them, the generous sum of £7 10s. A litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke (prior)
William Burke (c. 1611 – dead by 1685) was an Irish Dominican cleric who was Prior of Athenry. Variously said to be a native of Athenry, Portumna or Turlough, County Mayo. He was a descendant of the House of Burgh, with the surname Burke being the gaelicised form of this surname (de Búrca or Búrc, originally de Burgh). Burke studied in Spain where he joined the Dominican Order. In September 1629, prior to ordination, he was assigned to the convent of Valencia, Spain. He taught at the University of Besançon but by 1646 had returned to Connacht as a professor of philosophy. By 1648 he was a preacher general and prior of Strade, and in 1650 was Provincial. He was obliged to take refuge on Inisboffin, from where he sailed to Brest in April 1652 as a delegate to the Duke of Lorraine. After the fall of Galway, his political role made it morally impossible for him to return to Ireland before the Restoration, his provincialate was spent in exile. He spent 1653 in Paris and Brusse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Burke Miller
William Burke "Skeets" Miller (April 14, 1904 – December 29, 1983) was a newspaper and radio reporter. Early life According to census documents, William Burke Miller was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was the son of Charles J. (an assistant manager at a furniture store) and Julia Miller. They also had another child, a daughter named Mary. Little is known about Miller's childhood, although several sources have noted he had originally dreamed of being a professional singer. Journalism career Miller was a cub reporter for ''The Courier-Journal'' in Louisville, making $25 a week ("Two Men," 33), and his newspaper sent him to cover the story of Floyd Collins, a 37-year-old man who had been trapped in a cave, his leg pinned by a 26-pound rock. As the story unfolded, Miller was able to report from the scene and make contact with Collins: Miller was very slight – and – enabling him to squeeze into a part of the cave where he could talk to Collins, pray with him, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
