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William Green (other)
William Green may refer to Arts and entertainment *William Green (action painter) (1934–2001), British artist *William Green (painter) (1760–1823), British artist *William Green (piper) (1775–1860), Northumbrian piper *William Curtis Green (1875–1960), English architect * William Clark Green (born 1986), American country music singer *William Ellis Green (1923–2008), Australian cartoonist Military *Sir William Green, 1st Baronet (1725–1811), British army officer *William Green (British Army soldier) (1784–1881), English veteran of the Napoleonic wars * William Green (British Army officer, born 1882) (1882–1947), British Army major-general * William Edward Green (1898–1940), British World War I flying ace * William Henry Rodes Green (1823–1912), British Indian Army general *Sir William Wyndham Green (1887–1979), British Army general Politics and law U.K. * William Green (fl.1406), MP for Lewes * William Green (died 1555), MP for Downton * William Green (MP for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (action Painter)
William Green (1934 – 28 January 2001), was an artist who achieved attention in the late 1950s as a practitioner of Action painting. His work became known following a documentary film featuring his creation paintings by riding a bicycle over a surface saturated with bitumen. From about 1965, Green withdrew from the art scene as a reaction to negative publicity. He resumed his work in 1995. One of his works is in Tate Modern. Early life William Green was born in Greenwich, London, in 1934.Obituary, ''The Independent'', 14 February 2001 After leaving school he worked in the drawing office of an architect in Sidcup, Kent. He then studied at Sidcup School of Art from 1952 to 1954, and there he made his first use of bitumen paint after discovering an old tin in his garden shed. Green was accepted for the RCA in 1954, but as a conscientious objector to National Service, he was imprisoned from January 1955 for three months so was unable to join immediately. At the RCA, Green wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lowthian Green
William Lowthian Green (13 September 1819 – 7 December 1890) was an English adventurer and merchant who later became cabinet minister in the Kingdom of Hawaii. As an amateur geologist, he published a theory of the formation of the earth called the tetrahedral hypothesis. Life Green was born in Doughty Street in London on 13 September 1819. His mother, Mary Childs, was from the Lothian region of Scotland. His father, Joseph Green, was apprenticed to an early scientific instrument maker, Jesse Ramsden, and then started a successful merchandise business in northern England. His father was a distant relation to Charles Green (astronomer), Charles Green, who was astronomer on James Cook's voyage of 1768. Green was educated privately in Liverpool and at King William's College on the Isle of Man. As a young man continuing his father's business he sailed to Buenos Aires in Argentina. He crossed the Pampas plain and then the Andes mountains on horseback. By 1844 he returned to Liverpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (baseball)
William Green (1894 – June 4, 1925) was a Negro leagues third baseman for several years before the founding of the first Negro National League, and in its first few seasons. He played most of his career for the Chicago Giants The Chicago Giants were a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois which played in the Negro leagues from 1910 to 1921. History The team was founded by Frank Leland after he and his partner, Rube Foster, split up the Leland Giant .... References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, William Chicago American Giants players Detroit Stars players 1894 births 1925 deaths Baseball players from Chicago Baseball third basemen Chicago Giants players Pittsburgh Keystones players Kansas City Monarchs players 20th-century African-American sportspeople Kansas City Royal Giants players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (American Football)
William Green (born December 17, 1979) is a former American football running back. He played college football for Boston College, and received consensus All-American honors. The Cleveland Browns chose him in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft and he appeared in 46 games for Cleveland between 2002 and 2005. Early years Green was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His father was a heroin addict who died of AIDS when Green was 13 years old. His mother died of the disease a year later after being infected by his father. After his parents' deaths, Green was separated from his four siblings. Green attended Holy Spirit High School in Absecon, New Jersey, where he played for the Holy Spirit Spartans high school football team and received multiple high school All-American honors. College career Green received an athletic scholarship to attend Boston College, and played for the Boston College Eagles football team from 1998 to 2001. In two years as a starting running back, he comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (cricketer, Born 1852)
William Barham Green (August 1852 — 18 January 1924) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of E. B. Green, he was born in Australia at St Kilda in August 1852. After moving to England, he was educated at Eton College. He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1880 to 1884, making three appearances against Cambridge University and one appearance against Hampshire. He scored 53 runs in his four matches, with a highest score of 21. He additionally played minor matches for Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ... from 1875 to 1885. A farmer by profession, he died in January 1924 at North Chailey, Sussex. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Green, William 1852 births 1924 deaths Cricketers from Melbourne Peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (cricketer, Born 1834)
William James Green (1834 – 11 January 1876) was an English cricketer who played in three first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club between 1856 and 1861. He was born at Gravesend in Kent in 1834, the son of William and Rebecca Green (''née'' King).Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 198–199.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)Moore D (1988) ''The History of Kent County Cricket Club'', p. 246. London: Christopher Helm. Green played club cricket for Gravesend Cricket Club regularly and made his debut for Kent against Sussex in 1856. He made two further first-class appearances for the county, in 1859 against a Middlesex side and in 1861 against Cambridgeshire. In first-class matches he scored a total of 17 runs, with the 12 he scored in his second innings on debut his highest score.Milton H (1999) ''The Bat and Ball Gravesend: a first-cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (cricketer, Born 1817)
This is a list of cricketers who played for Kent county cricket teams in first-class cricket matches before the formation of the first Kent County Cricket Club in August 1842. Cricket is generally believed to have originated out of children's bat and ball games in the areas of the Weald and North and South Downs in Kent and Sussex. The two counties and Surrey were the first centres of the game and the first known inter-county match took place between a Kent side and one from Surrey on Dartford Brent in 1709.Collins S (2006A brief history of Kent CricInfo, 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2016-02-14. Matches played by teams using the name Kent continued throughout the 18th century, and matches by the side have been considered first-class from 1773. Although there were attempts to form County Clubs at Coxheath in 1787 and at Town Malling between 1835 and 1841, both of these ultimately failed and the first Kent County Cricket Club was established out of the Beverley Cricket Club during Canterb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Green (Australian Politician)
William Herbert Green (11 October 1878 – 18 March 1968) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia. Biography Green was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of Charles Green, ironfounder, and his wife Eliza (née Vaughan). After his father became a partner in a Mackay foundry in 1881, he was educated at Mackay State School and completed his schooling at the Way Methodist College in Adelaide. He was apprenticed in 1896 to Townsville pharmacist, Cromwell Ridgley before attending the Queensland College of Pharmacy in Brisbane in 1901. He then returned to Townsville and bought Ridgley's business and by 1914 owned four chemists. By 1920 W. H. Green Ltd owned eight chemists across Northern Queensland and eventually the company controlled sixteen pharmacies but the Pharmacy Act of 1933 requiring professional managers forced the company to disband. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William T
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 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] |
Bill Green IV
William Joseph Green IV (born March 29, 1965) is the former chair of the School Reform Commission of the School District of Philadelphia and a former Democratic Councilman-at-Large on the City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While in office, he prioritized accountability and fiscal discipline, constituent service, and quality of life for city residents. Early life and education Green grew up a block from Frankford High School, and graduated from Penn Charter and attended Saint Joseph's University before graduating from Auburn University. He obtained his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. Political background Green's father, William J. Green III, was a member of the U.S. House, Chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic City Committee, and Mayor of Philadelphia, and his grandfather, William J. Green, Jr., was a Congressman and Chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic City Committee. In 1991, Green wrote policy papers for Ed Rendell's successful campai ... [...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] |
