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William Christie (Bahamian Politician)
William Christie may refer to: * William Christie (Unitarian) (1748–1823), Scottish Unitarian writer * William Harvie Christie (1808–1873), Australian army officer and politician * William Christie (dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness) (1816–1885), Scots Episcopal priest and first dean of the United Diocese * William Dougal Christie (1816–1874), British Member of Parliament and diplomat * William J. Christie (1824–1899), Canadian politician and Hudson's Bay Company employee * William Mellis Christie (1829–1900), Scottish-born cookie company founder in Canada * William Christie (Conservative politician) (1830–1913), British Member of Parliament for Lewes, 1874–1885 * William Christie (astronomer) (1845–1922), British astronomer * William Christie (dean of Brechin) (fl. 1882–1931), Scots Episcopal priest and son of the above Dean of Moray * William Christie (Ulster politician) (1913–2008), British politician * William Christie (musician) William Lincoln Christ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Christie (Unitarian)
William Christie (1748–1823) was a Scottish Unitarian writer, one of the earliest apostles of Unitarianism in Scotland and America. Life Christie was a son of Thomas Christie, merchant and provost of Montrose, and uncle of Thomas Christie the political writer. He was born at Montrose, and educated at the grammar school there under his kinsman, Hugh Christie. He spent a few years in commerce at Montrose. Brought up a Presbyterian faith, he studied and adopted Unitarian doctrines, at a high social cost. Writing to Joseph Priestley in 1781 he stated that, so great was his unpopularity, that he did not suppose any Scottish minister would baptise his children. By Priestley's mediation, Caleb Rotheram of Kendal visited Montrose to perform the rite. About 1782 he, with a few friends of similar opinions, founded a Unitarian church at Montrose, of which he became the minister. This was the first Unitarian congregation established in Scotland. From December 1783 to May 1785 he had as his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harvie Christie
William Harvie Christie (1808 – 19 March 1873) was an Australian politician. He was born in Ceylon to Thomas Christie, who was the medical inspector-general, and Mary Tolfrey. He was educated in England and entered the military, becoming a lieutenant in 1827 and a captain in 1833. In 1845 he married Ellen Harrison, with whom he had five children. That year he migrated to New South Wales, where he was promoted major in 1838. He left the military in 1839 and in 1840 was appointed assistant police magistrate at Hyde Park Barracks. He was serjeant-at-arms for the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1848 to 1852, when he joined the Council as a non-elected member and served as Postmaster-General A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a Ministry (government department), ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having .... Christie left the Council in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Christie (dean Of Moray, Ross And Caithness)
William Christie (26 January 1817 – 12 December 1885) was a Scottish clergyman, inaugural Dean of the United Diocese of Moray, Ross, and Caithness, having been the Dean of Ross since 1860.The Times, Friday, Nov 18, 1864; pg. 11; Issue 25033; col A '' Ecclesiastical News'' Christie was born in Monquhitter, the son of William Christie, dancing-master of Monquhitter, and his wife Mary (). He studied at King's College, Aberdeen. In addition to his ecclesiastical achievements, he was a folk song Folk music is a music genre that includes #Traditional folk music, traditional folk music and the Contemporary folk music, contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be c ... collector who published two volumes of songs entitled ''Traditional Ballad Airs'', in 1876 and 1881. He died in Fochabers. References 1816 births 1885 deaths People from Formartine Alumni of the University of Aberdee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dougal Christie
William Dougal Christie (5 January 181627 July 1874) was a British diplomat, politician and man of letters. Life The son of Dougal Christie, M.D., an officer in the East India Company's medical service, he was born at Bombay on 5 January 1816. He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1838, where he was one of the Cambridge Apostles, William C. Lubenow, ''The Cambridge Apostles, 1820–1914: liberalism, imagination, and friendship in British intellectual and professional life'' (1998), p. 171Google Books and was called to the bar in 1840. At this time he was editor of a newspaper, the '' Kentish Mercury'', '' Gravesend Journal'', and '' Greenwich Gazette'', and employed the Chartist Thomas Cooper to edit it. He was also introduced to Thomas Carlyle, perhaps by Albany Fonblanque, and assisted him in the plan for the London Library. In 1841, Christie was for a short time private secretary to Lord Minto at the admiralty, and from April 1842 to November 1847 represented ... [...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 Mellis Christie
William Mellis Christie (5 January 1829 – 14 June 1900) is the namesake for the Canadian Mr. Christie brand of cookies and biscuits, owned by Nabisco. Christie was born in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the only child of John Christie and Jane Grant. He apprenticed as a baker before arriving in Canada in 1848. The Christie Bakery With Alexander Brown, Christie co-founded a city bakery in Toronto, which became Christie, Brown and Company in 1853. By the 1880s, Christie's was considered to be the largest manufacturer of biscuits in Canada. The firm's primary plant in Toronto covered . The business opened a $1 million biscuit factory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a region where spring wheat (the type of wheat in bakery flour) is a major crop, in February 1932. The product had a market base in all parts of the country but does not appear to have penetrated export markets to any degree before Christie's death. The product line, of which there were more than 400 varieties of cakes and bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Christie (Conservative Politician)
William Langham Christie (31 May 1830 – 28 November 1913) of Glyndebourne, Sussex, and Tapeley, North Devon, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Langham Christie, who had inherited Glyndebourne, the Sussex country house now famous for its music festival, after paying off a rival family claimant. William succeeded his father in 1861. William was the grandson of Daniel Beat Christin, a Swiss of obscure origins who anglicised his surname to Christie on entering the service of the East India Company and who retired to England in the 1780s having made a sudden fortune and an advantageous marriage to the daughter of Sir Purbeck Langham which brought Glyndebourne into the Christin/Christie family. During the 1870s William made substantial alterations to Glyndebourne, adding a brick extension, ornate stonework and balustrading. In 1876 he engaged architect Ewan Christian to install bay windows and add decorative brickwork to give t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Christie (astronomer)
Sir William Henry Mahoney Christie (1 October 1845 – 22 January 1922) was a British astronomer. He was born in Woolwich, London, the son of Samuel Hunter Christie and educated at King's College School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was fourth wrangler in 1868 and was elected a fellow of Trinity in 1869. Having been Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich from 1870 to 1881, he was appointed to replace George Airy as the eighth Astronomer Royal in 1881 and remained in office until 1910. He received the degree D.Sc. ''( honoris causa)'' from the University of Oxford in June 1902, and was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1904. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1881. He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1888 to 1890. The first Astronomer Royal to retire at 65 (all previous incumbents bar Airy and John Pond had died in office; John Pond had been forced by poor health to resign in 1835, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Christie (dean Of Brechin)
William Leslie Christie was Dean of Brechin from 1917 until 1931. Christie was born in 1858 and was the son of the clergyman William Christie, then incumbent of the Episcopal Church at Fochabers and the Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and Edinburgh Theological College and ordained in 1882.'' Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30'' p232 London: OUP After curacies in Edinburgh and Hornsey he was Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ... of Stonehaven from 1890 until his death in 1931. Some of his papers, including many transcripts he made of parish registers and research notes into the history of the Brechin Diocese, are held by Archive Services at the University of Dundee. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Christie (Ulster Politician)
Sir William Christie (1 June 1913 – 10 August 2008) was an Ulster Unionist politician who served as Lord Mayor of Belfast. The owner of a wallpaper company in Belfast, Christie was Lord Mayor of Belfast between 1972 and 1975. During this time his home and business were attacked several times, and his wife survived a gunshot to the head in 1972. His time in office coincided with the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and he was therefore the first Lord Mayor since John White in 1920 not to serve as an ''ex officio'' member of the Senate. In the 1973 elections to Belfast City Council Christie stood in the north-west Belfast 'E' division (equivalent to the current wards of Legoniel, Ballysillan, Ardoyne Ardoyne () is a working class and mainly Catholic and Irish republican district in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. It gained notoriety due to the large number of incidents during The Troubles. Foundation The village of Ardoyne was founded in ..., Woo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
