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William Fawcett
William or Bill Fawcett or ''variation'', may refer to: People * William Fawcett (actor) (1894–1974), American actor who was awarded the ''Légion d'honneur'' * William Fawcett (author) (1902–1941), English journalist and writer on horses, hunting, and racing * William Fawcett (botanist) (1851–1926), British botanist and co-author of the ''Flora of Jamaica'' * William Fawcett (British Army officer) (1727–1804), former Adjutant-General to the Forces * William Fawcett (engineer) (1763–1844), British engineer and manufacturer of guns and steam engines * Bill Fawcett (footballer) (1890–1970), Australian rules footballer for Melbourne * Bill Fawcett (writer) (born 1947), mystery and science-fiction author and editor who also publishes as Quinn Fawcett and William Fawcett * Wilford Fawcett, aka "Captain Billy", "Billy Fawcett" (1885–1940), publisher and founder of Fawcett Publications Other uses * , two ships named after the engineer See also * Fawcett (surname) * Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fawcett (actor)
William Fawcett Thompson (September 8, 1894 – January 25, 1974) was an American character actor who appeared in hundreds of films and television episodes. Because there were other actors named William Thompson he used his first and middle name when seeking acting roles. He was best known for playing Pete Wilkey in the television series '' Fury'' which ran from 1955 to 1960. Early life Fawcett's father was a Methodist minister, and after Fawcett attended Hamline University he became licensed to preach in 1916. During World War I, he joined the United States Army, serving as an ambulance driver. The French government honored him with the Legion of Honour for his care of the wounded. After his military service, Fawcett became a teacher of English and literature at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and, after earning a Ph.D. degree in Elizabethan drama from the University of Nebraska, he became a professor of theatre arts at Michigan State University. In 1925 he married Helen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fawcett (engineer)
William Fawcett (26 December 1763 – 28 December 1844) was an engineer and manufacturer of guns and steam engines, supplying steam engines for some of the earliest steam ships in Britain and America, and for use on sugar plantations in America. He was a partner in the firm of Fawcett, Preston and Company, which supplied the steam engines for a number of ships, including the paddle steamer ''William Fawcett'', described as the first ship operated by what would become the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Early career William Fawcett was born 26 December 1763 in Liverpool, England, into a Quaker family. He married a daughter of Joseph Rathbone, son of William Rathbone II and Mary Darby, sister of Abraham Darby II. Fawcett was an apprentice engineer at the Phoenix Foundry in Liverpool, which was owned by the Darbys of Coalbrookdale and managed by his father-in-law. Fawcett completed his apprenticeship in 1784, and Joseph Rathbone took him into the management ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fawcett (author)
William Claude Fawcett (1902 – 18 May 1941) was an English journalist, editor, broadcaster, and prolific author on fox hunting, horse racing, and equestrianism. He died in 1941 while serving in the Royal Army Service Corps. Early life Fawcett was only son of Sir William Claude Fawcett (1868–1935), a solicitor, of the Grange, Stainton, North Yorkshire, by his marriage in 1901 to Adeline, the daughter of Frederick Henry Brentnall, the village schoolmaster at Stainton. He began his hunting career at the age of two-and-a-half with the Cleveland Hunt. He had two younger sisters, Rosalie Molyneux Fawcett, born in 1907 and Elizabeth Joyce Fawcett born 1913''Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes'' vol. 95 (Kelly's, 1969), p. 618: "Stanley Vernon, s. of late Col. Vernon Wm. Frank Dickins. DSO VD, of 39 Redington Rd. Hampstead, NW3; b. 1904; educ. Oundle and Christ's Coll. Cambridge: m. 1931, Rosalie Molyneux, dau. of sir William Claude Fawcett..." He was educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fawcett (botanist)
William Fawcett (1851–1926) was a British botanist and coauthor of the ''Flora of Jamaica''. He was born in Arklow, County Wicklow, on 13 February 1851. He studied at the University of London, obtaining a BSc in 1879. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1881 and was an assistant in the Department of Botany in the British Museum from 1880-1886. Fawcett was Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica from 1887 to 1908. He then returned to Britain where he worked with Alfred Barton Rendle to produce the first few volumes of the ''Flora of Jamaica'', (illustrated by Beatrice O. Corfe and Helen Adelaide Wood).BHL: Metadata for ''Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fawcett (British Army Officer)
General Sir William Fawcett KB (1727–1804) was an Adjutant-General to the Forces. Military career Educated at Bury Grammar School in Lancashire, William Fawcett was commissioned into the 33rd Foot in 1748. In 1758 he was despatched to the War in Germany where he became an Aide-de-Camp to the Marquess of Granby. Then in 1775 he was sent to Hannover, Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau and Hanover to recruit troops for the War in America. The majority of the German troops who fought on the British side in the conflict were known as the " Hessians" in reference to the place of origin. He was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces in 1781: in this role he was involved in introducing Regulations for the Heavy Infantry and then for the Cavalry. In retirement he served as Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1796 until 1804. He lived at 31 Great George Street in London. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Fawcett (footballer)
Albert William Baird Fawcett (15 May 1890 – 4 March 1970) was a sportsman and sports administrator, known in the sports of rowing, swimming, Australian rules football in Melbourne's western suburbs. Fawcett was born at the facilities of the Albert Park Rowing Club, where his father – a Maribyrnong River boat builder – was caretaker, and he was involved in rowing and swimming from a young age, winning hundreds of junior trophies. In 1912, he became secretary of the Footscray Rowing Club, and dominated maiden and junior events through the year. Fawcett joined the army in World War I, and fought in France as a lieutenant of the 4th Machine Gun Battalion. He was also the sports organiser for his battalion. He was mugged behind his own line by a gang of deserters while preparing for leave, which saw him spend three weeks in hospital with a fractured skull and concussion. After his return to Australia, he continued as one of the state's best rowers, described by his pairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Fawcett (writer)
William B. Fawcett (born May 13, 1947) is an American editor, anthologist, game designer, book packager, fiction writer, and historian. Life Fawcett and fellow science fiction writer Jody Lynn Nye were married in 1987. They first met at a science fiction convention in 1985. At that time, Fawcett owned a gaming company in Niles, Illinois, and Nye began to work as a freelance writer for the company. Career Bill Fawcett was one of the players in early ''Dungeons & Dragons'' games being played in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas, using photocopied prototypes of the rules handed out by Gary Gygax. Darwin Bromley brought Fawcett on as a partner in Mayfair Games soon after the company was formed in 1980, and together they designed the game ''Empire Builder'' (1980). As a veteran role-playing gamer, Fawcett decided to get Mayfair into the RPG field, and the company kicked off its ''Role Aids'' game line with ''Beastmaker Mountain'' (1982). As a result of their connections with Mayfair, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilford Fawcett
Wilford Hamilton Fawcett (; April 29, 1885 – February 7, 1940), also known as Captain Billy, was an American magazine publisher and sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Biography At the age of 16, Fawcett ran away from home to join the U.S. Army, and the Spanish–American War took him to the Philippines. Back in Minnesota, he became a police reporter for the ''Minneapolis Journal''. While a World War I Army captain, Fawcett's experience with the Army publication '' Stars and Stripes'' gave him the notion to get into publishing, and his bawdy cartoon and joke magazine, ''Captain Billy's Whiz Bang'', became the launch pad for the vast Fawcett Publications publishing empire embracing magazines, comic books and paperback books. The title ''Captain Billy's Whiz Bang'' combined Fawcett's military moniker with the nickname of a destructive World War I artillery shell. According to one account, the earliest issues were mimeographed pamphl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawcett (surname)
Fawcett is an English language, English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *A. Chase Fawcett (1863–1934), Canadian politician. *Benjamin Fawcett (1808–1893), English woodblock colour printer *Brian Fawcett (1944–2022), Canadian poet and novelist *Cesar Fawcett (born 1983), Colombian footballer *Charles Fawcett (historian), British historian *Charles Bungay Fawcett (1883–1952), British geographer *Charles Fernley Fawcett (1915–2008), U.S. soldier, actor, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps *Charlotte Johnson Wahl, Charlotte Fawcett (1942–2021), British artist, mother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson *David Fawcett (born 1963), Australian politician *Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866-1960), English mountaineer, philosopher and novelist *Eric Fawcett (1927–2000), British-Canadian physicist *Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009), U.S. actress *Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), British economist and politician * James Farish Malcolm Fawcett (after 1918), Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William (other)
William is a masculine given name. It may also refer to: __NOTOC__ People * List of people named William, a list of people with the given name * Morgan William (born 1996), American women's basketball player * will.i.am (born 1975), American musician, member of the Black Eyed Peas * William (footballer, born 1933), full name William José de Assis Filho, Brazilian football defender * William (footballer, born 1967), full name William Amaral de Andrade, Brazilian football manager and former centre-back * William (footballer, born 1968), full name William César de Oliveira, Brazilian football midfielder * William (footballer, born 1977), full name Gilberto William Fabbro, Brazilian football attacking midfielder * William (footballer, born 1982), full name William Arthur Conceição dos Santos, Brazilian football striker * William (footballer, born 1983), full name William Júnior Salles de Lima Souza, Brazilian football striker * William (footballer, born 1995), full name Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawcett (other)
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Fawcett may refer to: People *Fawcett (surname) Places *Fawcett, Alberta, a hamlet in Alberta, Canada Other uses *Fawcett City, a fictional DC Comics city * Fawcett Publications, an American publishing company ** Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications *Fawcett Society, an organisation in the United Kingdom that campaigns for women's rights *Fawcett Stadium Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, formerly Fawcett Stadium, is a football stadium and entertainment complex in Canton, Ohio. It is a major component of ''Hall of Fame Village'', located adjacent to the grounds of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
