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William Dickinson (1771-1837)
William Dickinson may refer to: People * William Dickinson (architect) (c. 1670–1724), English architect * William Dickinson (1745–1806), British Member of Parliament for Great Marlow 1768–1774, Rye 1777–1790 and Somerset 1796–1806 * William Dickinson (Rastall) (1756–1822), English topographer and legal writer * William Dickinson (1771–1837), British Member of Parliament for Ilchester 1796–1802, Lostwithiel 1802–1806 and Somerset 1806–1831 *William Louis Dickinson (1925–2008), American politician *William R. Dickinson (1931–2015), American geologist *William Dickinson (engraver) (1746–1826), English mezzotint engraver *William Austin Dickinson (1829–1895), American lawyer *William Boyd Dickinson (1908–1978), American war correspondent *William Croft Dickinson (1897–1963), English historian and author *William Howship Dickinson (1832–1913), British doctor *William Dickinson (cricketer) (1889–1948), Welsh cricketer and British Army officer *William P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dickinson (architect)
William Dickinson (c.1670 − 24 January 1724) was an English architect. Life Dickinson was the son of William Dickinson, Controller Clerk at Windsor Castle and chief clerk of the king's works. This elder Dickinson died in 1702 and according to Adrian Tinniswood his "sole contribution to architecture" was to be Chief Clerk of the Works. Dickinson younger married Elizabeth, with whom he had a son, also called William. He died in 1724 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. His gravestone in the north porch reads: "Here lies William Dickinson, architect. What sort of architect! Look upwards. Died 24 of January A.D. 1724 aged 54". Work Dickinson, along with Nicholas Hawksmoor, Edward Woodroffe and John Oliver, worked under Sir Christopher Wren, the Chief Surveyor on the commission to rebuild London churches after the Great Fire of 1666. In the 1680s Dickinson underwent training with Wren at the Office of Works. He was employed on many buildings, notably Westminster Abbey, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dickinson (1745–1806)
William Dickinson (13 July 1745 – 26 May 1806) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1806. Biography Born on 13 July 1745, Dickinson was the eldest son of Sarah (née Prankard), daughter of Graffin Prankard, iron merchant, of Bristol and Caleb Dickinson, merchant, of Bristol. He was probably educated at Westminster School in 1758 and entered the University of Edinburgh in 1765. Dickinson was returned as Member of Parliament for Great Marlow after a contest at the 1768 general election. He lost his seat at Marlow in 1774. The Fullers had a strong influence at Rye, a Treasury borough, and Dickinson re-entered Parliament as MP for Rye in a by-election on 20 May 1777 succeeding Rose Fuller. He was returned unopposed for Rye in 1780. This was a period in which the West Indies commercial lobby, to which Dickinson belonged as did some of his Fuller relations by marriage, was growing; and was able to head off Edmund Burke's 1780 proposal for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dickinson (Rastall)
William Dickinson (1756–1822) was an English topographer and legal writer. Biography Born in 1756 and baptised William Dickinson Rastall, Dickinson was the only son of Dr. William Rastall, vicar-general of the church of Southwell. He became a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1777, M.A. in 1780. cites ''Graduati Cantabrigienses'', ed. 1856, p. 316. On leaving the university he devoted himself to the study of the law. In 1795, at the request of Mrs. Henrietta Dickinson of Eastward Hoo, he assumed the name of Dickinson only. His residence was at Muskham Grange, near Newark, and he was a justice of the peace for the counties of Nottingham, Lincoln, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English .... He died in Cumberland Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dickinson (1771–1837)
William Dickinson (1771–1837) was an English politician, in parliament from 1796 to 1831. Life From a Bristol merchant family who were slave-owners in Jamaica, he was the eldest son of William Dickinson, also a Member of Parliament, and his wife Philippa Fuller, daughter of Stephen Fuller who was a London West India merchant and Jamaica agent. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford where he matriculated in 1789, graduating B.A. in 1793, M.A. in 1795. He came into the family estate at Kingweston on his father's death. Dickinson entered the House of Commons in 1796 for , as a supporter of William Pitt the Younger. He stood successfully for in 1802, and was a Lord of the Admiralty in the period 1804 to 1806. In 1806 he was elected for , a seat he held until 1831, and moved his support generally to the Whig opposition. He came to oppose Catholic emancipation. According to the ''Legacies of British Slave-Ownership'' at the University College London, Dicki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset (UK Parliament Constituency)
Somerset was a parliamentary constituency in Somerset, which returned two Members of Parliament (MPs), known traditionally as knights of the shire, to the House of Commons of England until 1707, the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800, and the House of Commons of the United Kingdom The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the upper house, the House of Lords, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England. The House of Commons is an elected body consisting of 650 me ... from 1801 to 1832. Elections were held by the bloc vote system. Members of Parliament MPs 1290–1629 * ''Constituency created'' (1290) MPs 1640–1832 References Sources *D Brunton & D H Pennington, ''Members of the Long Parliament'' (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) *Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803' (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) * * Henry Stooks Smi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Louis Dickinson
William Louis "Bill" Dickinson (June 5, 1925 – March 31, 2008), was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, Dickinson served in the United States House of Representatives for Alabama's 2nd congressional district from 1965 to 1993. Early life Dickinson was born in Opelika in Lee County, Alabama. He served in the United States Navy during World War II in the European Theater. After returning from the war, he graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law. In Opelika, Dickinson practiced law for two years beginning in 1950. In 1952, registered with the Democratic Party, Dickinson won his first elected office as city court judge. He then served as a juvenile court and common pleas judge in Lee County from 1954 to 1958 and judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Alabama from 1958 to 1962. While serving in the judiciary, Dickinson also sat on the Opelika Board of Education from 1954 to 1962, including a year as board president in 1961. In 1960, Dickinso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William R
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 Dickinson (engraver)
William Dickinson (1746–1823) was an English mezzotint engraver. Life He was born in London. Early in life he began to engrave in mezzotint, mostly caricatures and portraits after Robert Edge Pine, and in 1767 he was awarded a premium by the Society of Arts. In 1773 he commenced publishing his own works, and in 1778 went into partnership with Thomas Watson, who engraved in both stipple and mezzotint, and who died in 1781. Dickinson appears to have been still carrying on the business of a printseller in 1791 in London, but he later moved to Paris, where he continued to engrave, making prints for the new regime and then for Napoleon; in 1814 Thomas Lawrence and Benjamin West visited him in Paris, the latter trying to persuade him to come back to London to engrave his paintings. He died in the summer of 1823 and his death was noted in the ''Gentleman's Magazine'' in September of that year. Works John Chaloner Smith in his ''British Mezzotinto Portraits'' described 96 pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Austin Dickinson
William Austin Dickinson (April 16, 1829 – August 16, 1895) was an American lawyer. Known to family and friends as "Austin", he was the older brother of the poet Emily Dickinson. After graduating from both Williston Seminary and Amherst College, Dickinson taught briefly before pursuing a legal education. He attended Harvard Law School, then joined his father, Edward Dickinson, in his law practice. After his father's death, Austin became treasurer of Amherst College from 1873 until his death. In addition to his law practice and treasury work, Dickinson took part in numerous civic projects and responsibilities, such as moderating the town meetings from 1881 until his death, and acting as president of the Village Improvement Association. Dickinson on July 1, 1856 married Susan Huntington Gilbert, a friend of his sister Emily from childhood. They had three children and resided at the Evergreens, which stood, and still stands, adjacent to the Dickinson Homestead in downtown Amhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boyd Dickinson
William Boyd Dickinson, Jr. (born May 18, 1908 Kansas City, Missouri; died September 12, 1978, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was United States war correspondent for United Press International during World War II. He was born into a family with a tradition of writing and public service. His father, William B. Dickinson, Sr. was an attorney and his mother, Alice Hillman Dickinson, in 1927 became one of the first two women elected to a school board in the state of Missouri. His uncle was the noted Pittsburgh physician and medical author Breese M. Dickinson and another uncle, Cedric Dickinson, was a Canadian journalist. Biography Dickinson began his journalistic career as a reporter at ''The Kansas City Star'' after graduation from the University of Kansas in 1929. In 1930 he joined UPI in Kansas City. He was sent to London in 1940 to cover the Blitz The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Croft Dickinson
William Croft Dickinson, CBE (28 August 1897 – May 1963) was a leading expert in the history of early modern Scotland and a writer of both children's fiction and adult ghost stories. Dickinson held the Chair of Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh from 1943 to 1963. Early life Dickinson was born in Leicester. He was raised in Yorkshire and educated at Mill Hill School in London. He attended the University of St Andrews before in 1916 volunteering for the Black Watch. In Oct 1916 he was commissioned to the 45 Company Machine Gun Corps and awarded a Military Cross for 'conspicuous gallantry' in action near Ypres on 31 July 1917. He returned to St Andrews in 1919, graduating with a First Class Degree in History in 1921. Academic career In the earlier years of his academic career Dickinson was influenced by his St Andrews's supervisor, J. D. Mackie. Dickinson's published scholarship focused on editing the court b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Howship Dickinson
William Howship Dickinson (9 June 1832 – 9 January 1913) was a British doctor. He was educated at Cambridge and later trained at St George's Hospital. He wrote one of the first accounts of familial kidney disease. Affected family members had proteinuria but did not have typical features of the condition known as Alport syndrome. He worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was particularly interested in children with neurological conditions. He also worked as a censor and curator of the museum at the Royal College of Physicians. He also served as an examiner in medicine to the Royal College of Surgeons, and to the universities of Cambridge, London and Durham. He was President of the Pathological Society of London The Pathological Society of London was founded in 1846 for the "cultivation and promotion of Pathology by the exhibition and description of specimens, drawings, microscopic preparations, casts or models of morbid parts." Its first meeting was he ... from 188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
