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William Cooper
William Cooper may refer to: Business *William Cooper (accountant) (1826β1871), founder of Cooper Brothers * William Cooper (businessman) (1761β1840), Canadian businessman *William Cooper (co-operator) (1822β1868), English co-operator *William E. Cooper (civic leader) (1921β2008), prominent businessman in Dallas, Texas *William W. Cooper (1914β2012), management scientist Government *William B. Cooper (Delaware politician) (1771β1849), American farmer and politician * William B. Cooper (North Carolina politician) (1867β1959), lieutenant governor of North Carolina * William C. Cooper (politician) (1832β1902), US congressman from Ohio *William Cooper (judge) (1754β1809), father of James Fenimore Cooper and founder of Cooperstown, New York * William Cooper (Prince Edward Island politician), Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island *Prentice Cooper (William Prentice Cooper, 1895β1969), Tennessee governor * William Raworth Cooper (1793β1856), US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cooper (accountant)
William Cooper (1826β1871) was an English accountant. He is best known for having founded the accountancy practice of ''Cooper Brothers'' that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Career He was the son of Emmanuel Cooper, an important figure in the City of London and Deputy Chairman of London & County Bank. He first started his professional career as a clerk in the firm of Quilter, Ball & Co. In 1854 he left that firm to work on his own at 13 George Street in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow .... In 1858 he changed the name of the firm to ''W. & A. Cooper'' when his brother, Arthur, joined his practice and in 1860 to ''Cooper Brothers'' - a name that is now famous. References 1826 births 1871 deaths English accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Heaton Cooper
William Heaton Cooper RA (6 October 1903 – 1995) was a notable English impressionistic landscape artist who worked predominantly in watercolours, most famous for his paintings of the Lake District. Since the 1950s, he has become known as one of the most celebrated British landscape artists of the 20th century. Life Heaton Cooper was born in Coniston, Cumbria, in the English Lake District in 1903, the third child to a Norwegian mother, Mathilde, and the landscape artist Alfred Heaton Cooper. William Heaton Cooper was strongly influenced by his father's artistic style. Alfred lived entirely by his painting and William soon aspired to follow in his father's footsteps. He gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy School in London and subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy, with the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute. Alongside his painting, he became an authority on the lore and landscape of the Lake District, walking and rock climbing in its moun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cooper (hurler)
Bill Cooper (born 16 December 1987) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for club side Youghal, divisional side Imokilly and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. Playing career Youghal Cooper joined the Youghal club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels, enjoying championship success in under-13 and under-14 grades. His performances at club level saw him added to the Imokilly team in the senior championship in 2010. On 13 October 2013, Cooper was captain of the Youghal team that defeated Castlelyons by 0β11 to 0β10 in the premier intermediate championship final. He later won a Munster medal after scoring two points in Youghal's 2β13 to 2β10 defeat of Ballina. Cork Intermediate Cooper first played for Cork at intermediate level on 30 May 2010 when he came on as a substitute in a Munster Championship quarter-final defeat of Tipperary. By the end of the provincial championship, Cooper had established himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cooper (baseball)
William J. Cooper (February 19, 1915 – March 10, 1985), nicknamed "Flash", was an American Negro league catcher in the 1930s and 1940s. A native of Sumter, South Carolina, Cooper attended Morris Brown College. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1937 with the Atlanta Black Crackers. He went on to play for the Philadelphia Stars, served in the US Army during World War II, and finished his career in 1946 with the New York Black Yankees. Cooper died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ... in 1985 at age 70. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads 1915 births 1985 deaths Atlanta Black Crackers players New York Black Yankees players Philadelphia Stars players Indianapolis ABCs players Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Cooper (American Football)
Bill Cooper (born July 12, 1939), nicknamed "Cannonball", is a former American football fullback and linebacker. He was initiated to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2000. He played professionally with the San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National .... References 1939 births Living people American football fullbacks Muskingum Fighting Muskies football players San Francisco 49ers players College Football Hall of Fame inductees People from Carrollton, Ohio {{collegefootball-player-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Skinner Cooper
William Skinner Cooper (25 August 1884 β 8 October 1978) was an American ecologist. Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, he entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Henry Chandler Cowles, and completed his Ph.D. in 1911. His first major publication, "The Climax Forest of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, and Its Development" appeared in 1913. Cooper served briefly in 1914-1915 as a lecturer in plant ecology at Stanford University before beginning his long career in the botany department at the University of Minnesota, where he taught from 1915 to 1951. Among his students at Minnesota were Henry J. Oosting, Murray Fife Buell, Rexford Daubenmire, Frank Edwin Egler and Arnold M. Schultz; the latter went on to teach "Ecosystemology" at U.C. Berkeley, and received U.C. Berkeley's "Distinguished Teaching Award" in 1992. Cooper was the president of the Ecological Society of America in 1936 and the president of the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cooper (conchologist)
William Cooper (1798β1864) was an American naturalist, conchologist (shell zoologist) and collector. Early life Cooper studied zoology in Europe from 1821 to 1824, and afterwards travelled to Nova Scotia, Kentucky and the Bahamas collecting specimens. Career Although he was not an author himself his specimens were of great help to others, such as John James Audubon, Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Thomas Nuttall. Cooper was one of the founders of the New York Lyceum of Natural History (later the New York Academy of Sciences), and the first American member of the Zoological Society of London. Bonaparte named the Cooper's hawk for him, after Cooper collected a specimen of it in 1828. Personal life He was father of James Graham Cooper James Graham Cooper (June 19, 1830 β July 19, 1902) was an American surgeon and naturalist. Cooper was born in New York. He worked for the California Geological Survey (1860β1874) with Josiah Dwight Whitney, William Henry Brewer and Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cooper (chemical Manufacturer)
William Cooper (26 December 1813 β 20 May 1885) was a British veterinary surgeon, agriculturalist and industrialist who specialised in the manufacture of agricultural insecticides for livestock. He is credited with developing the first successful sheep dip, Cooper's Dip, in 1852. Early life and career Cooper was born in Clunbury, Shropshire. He trained as a veterinary surgeon and by the 1843 he had moved to set up a practice in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. Legend has it that he arrived in town with nothing but a bag with containing the tools of his trade. In 1849, Cooper became one of the first veterinary surgeons to qualify from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. In the 1851 census he is recorded as a resident of the High Street in Berkhamstead. He later moved to a house on the High Street called ''The Poplars''; this house was later the birthplace of the actor Sir Michael Hordern in 1911. As a veterinary surgeon he was frequently confronted by the horrendous condition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red (2010 Film)
''Red'' is a 2010 American action comedy film loosely inspired by the Homage Comics limited series of the same name. Produced by Di Bonaventura Pictures and distributed by Summit Entertainment, it is the first film in the ''Red'' series. Directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, it stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban and Mary-Louise Parker, alongside Rebecca Pidgeon, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, and James Remar. ''Red'' follows Frank Moses (Willis), a former black-ops agent who reunites with his old team to capture an assassin who has vowed to kill him. The film was released on October 15, 2010. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $199 million worldwide, and also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture β Musical or Comedy. A sequel, '' Red 2'', was released on July 19, 2013. A third film was announced as in-development i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Y
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 αΉαααα¨αΊαααα¨α, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse α’αααα αΌα ααα α, ''VilhjΓ‘lmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brown Cooper
William Brown Cooper (1811β1900) was an American portrait painter from the state of Tennessee. Early life William Brown Cooper was born in 1811 near Carthage in Smith County, Tennessee. His brother was the painter Washington Bogart Cooper (1802β1888). He was educated at the National Academy Museum and School in New York City as well as in Paris and Rome for three years. Career Back in the United States, he started his career as a painter, and was active in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, Little Rock, Arkansas, Natchez, Mississippi and Tennessee. In 1853, he painted a painting entitled ''Out of State''. He had a studio in Memphis, Tennessee for fifteen years. He later moved to Nashville, followed by Chattanooga in 1885. Cooper often signed his paintings the same way as his brother did, and he had a similar style, thus making it hard to know who painted which painting. However, one clue to distinguish their paintings is that he painted more portraits of chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sidney Cooper
William Sidney Cooper (1854–1927) was a British landscape artist, best known for his paintings of the countryside around Herne Bay in Kent. Life and work William trained with his Great-Uncle Thomas Sidney Cooper at his School of Art in Canterbury. (Haynes Fine Art) William became a successful artist exhibiting at the , the ( Suffolk Street galleri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
