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William King (Houston Mayor)
William King may refer to: Arts * Willie King (1943–2009), American blues guitarist and singer *William King (author) (born 1959), British science fiction author and game designer, also known as Bill King *William King (artist) (1925–2015), American sculptor * William King (poet) (1663–1712), English poet * William King (singer) (born 1949), American singer with the Commodores *Bill King (photographer) (1939–1987), American fashion photographer Politics *Bill King (New Hampshire politician), American politician *William King (Canadian politician) (1930–2020), British Columbia politician *William King (governor) (1768–1852), American statesman, governor of Maine ** ''William King'' (Simmons), an 1878 marble sculpture *William King (Governor of West Florida) (died 1826), American governor of West Florida, 1818–1819 *William King (Australian politician) (1893–1966), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly *William Cutfield King (1829–1861), New Zealand politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie King
Willie King (March 18, 1943 – March 8, 2009) was an American blues guitarist and singer, known for shunning fame and playing at a local bar in Mississippi. Biography King was born in Prairie Point, a community in Noxubee County, Mississippi near the Alabama border. Prior to recording, he worked as a sharecropper, moonshine maker and traveling salesman; just a few of his many occupations. Later he became active with the civil rights movement, which inspired him to write socially conscious blues songs. In 1983, he founded the Rural Members Association, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the traditional rural skills King had grown up with, which he called 'survival skills,' and helping improve his local community. In 1997, the Rural Members Association started the annual Freedom Creek blues festival, which has since received international recognition. He began recording in 1999 and his 2000 recordings ''Freedom Creek'' and ''I Am The Blues'', were the first of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William M
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 Frederick King
William Frederick King (February 19, 1854 – April 23, 1916) was a Canadian surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant. Born in Stowmarket, England, the son of William King and Ellen Archer, King emigrated to Port Hope, Canada West with his family when he was eight. In 1869, he started studying at the University of Toronto. He left in 1872 to work as a sub-assistant astronomer for the international boundary survey in Western Canada. He returned to the University of Toronto and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics in 1874. In 1875, he was working as an assistant in the Canadian survey of lands in the northwest. After becoming a dominion land surveyor and dominion topographical surveyor in 1876, he started working as an astronomical assistant for the federal Department of the Interior. He became a permanent civil servant as inspector of surveys in 1881, chief inspector in 1886, and Canada's first chief astronomer in 1890. In 1905, he was appointed founding directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wickham King
William Wickham King (30 May 1862 – 11 December 1959), usually known as Wickham King, was a distinguished amateur geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society for 50 years. He was the younger son of William Henry King and followed him as a solicitor in Stourbridge and magistrates clerk for the Stourbridge and Kingswinford Petty Sessional Divisions. As a young man, he rowed with Bewdley rowing club, but came to grief one day when his penny-farthing bicycle broke under him. He also climbed in the Alps and Cuillins, where King's Chimney and King's Cave Gully are named after him. Wickham King was a prominent member of the London Alpine Club and the Scottish Mountaineering Club, joining the latter in 1891. He was a competent alpinist, with at least half of his ascents being made guideless. His interest in geology began when he found a fossil on the Clent Hills. This led to his attending classes provided by Birmingham University. His first published paper was on the Clent Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King (geologist)
William King (22 April 1809 – 24 June 1886), was an Anglo-Irish geologist at Queen's College Galway. He was the first (in 1864) to propose that the bones found in the German valley of Neanderthal in 1856 were not of ''Homo sapiens'', but of a distinct species: ''Homo neanderthalensis''. He proposed the name of this new species at a meeting of the British Association in 1863, with the written version published in 1864. Life King was born to William King, a coal worker, and his wife Eleanor née Armstrong who was a confectioner and shop owner. He grew up in Durham and went to study in Sunderland and apprenticed at various times with an ironmonger, book-seller and a librarian. He took an early interest in collecting fossils. He worked at the Newcastle museum in 1841 but left it after six years after conflict with the employers. In 1849 he joined Queen's College Galway and during his long career there published nearly 70 papers and established a museum. He developed a course ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King (engineer)
William Falconer King FRSE FRMetS (17 April 1851 – 6 October 1929 in Hunter's Quay, Argyll) was a Scottish engineer. He was a pioneer in the laying of submarine telegraphy cables. A student at the University of Glasgow and then employee of Sir William Thomson, King was responsible for laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable to Brazil, while serving as chief engineer (1873–84) of the Western and Brazilian Telegraph Company. For his services in Brazil Emperor Dom Pedro II awarded him a Knight of the Order of the Rose. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1880. His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait, William Durham, and James Thomson Bottomley. He returned to Scotland in 1884, living at Lonend on Russell Place in Trinity, Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1885-6 In Edinburgh he created the engineering firm of King, Brown & Co with Andrew Betts Brown based at the Rosebank Works in Leith and in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King (physician)
William King (17 April 1786 – 19 October 1865) was a British physician and philanthropist from Brighton. He is best known as an early supporter of the co-operative movement through the paper he founded, ''The Co-operator''. William King was the son of Rev. John King, a master at Ipswich School, and Elizabeth Sarah (née Bishop). One brother, John, was a writer of legal books, and another, Richard Henry was a naval officer who served under Philip Broke – a former pupil at Ipswich School – during the capture of USS Chesapeake. King was born in Lower Brooke Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, but the family subsequently moved nearby to Witnesham when his father retired to the rectory there in 1798. He was educated at Westminster School in London, and then Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge where he obtained a BA and MA. He subsequently studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and then in France in both Paris and Montpellier before returning to Peterhouse where in 1819 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King (priest)
William King B.D. (died 23 September 1590) was a Canon of Windsor from 1572 to 1590''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Career He was a King's Scholar at Eton College from 1544 to 1548, and then studied at King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ..., where he graduated BA in 1553, MA in 1556 and BD in 1570. He was appointed: *Rector of Howick, Northumberland 1560–1566 * Archdeacon of Northumberland 1561–1566 *Prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral 1565–1590 *Vicar of Appledore, Kent 1568–1576 *Rector of Kingston, Kent 1569–1573 *Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth He was deprived of his archdeaconry in 1566 due to continual absence. He was ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth King
William Smyth King (13 December 1810 – 1 January 1890) was an Irish-Anglican priest and Dean of Leighlin. He was the eldest son of Hulton King, commissioner of Customs for Ireland. Hulton assumed the Smyth surname upon his marriage to Anne Sarah Talbot, coheir of her grandfather William Smyth of Borris House in County Carlow. Smyth King was educated at Charterhouse School. In 1841, he married Jane Elizabeth Ellington, eldest daughter of Rev. Henry Preston Ellington. They had four daughters. Smyth King died at Carlow on 1 January 1890 at the age of 79 years.Obituary. ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...'' (London, England), Thursday, 2 January 1890; pg. 8; Issue 32898 References 1810 births 1890 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King (minister)
William King (November 11, 1812 – January 5, 1895) was an Irish-born minister and abolitionist. He founded the Elgin settlement, a community of former African-American slaves, in southwestern Ontario. The son of William King and Elizabeth Torrence, he was born on the family farm near Derry and was educated at Coleraine Academy and the University of Glasgow. In 1833, his family sold their farm in Ireland and moved to Ohio, where they purchased land to establish a new farm. King moved to Natchez, Mississippi in 1836, where he worked as a teacher. In 1840, he became rector for Mathews Academy in Louisiana. In 1842, King married Mary Mourning Phares, the daughter of a local planter. Through his wife's dowry, he became the owner of two slaves. Although opposed in principle to slavery, King purchased three more slaves because, in that time and place, it was not possible to hire servants or to free slaves. In 1844, King travelled to Edinburgh to study divinity at the Free Church Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William King (bishop)
William King (1 May 1650 – 8 May 1729) was an Anglican divine in the Church of Ireland, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1703 to 1729. He was an author and supported the Glorious Revolution. He had considerable political influence in Ireland, including a veto on judicial appointments. Early life King was born in May 1650 in County Antrim, to James King and his wife; his parents were recent immigrants from Aberdeen. He was educated at The Royal School, Dungannon, County Tyrone, and thereafter at Trinity College Dublin, graduating BA on 23 February 1670 and MA in 1673. Career On 25 October 1671, King was ordained a deacon as chaplain to John Parker, Archbishop of Tuam, and on 14 July 1673 Parker gave him the prebend of Kilmainmore, County Mayo. King, who lived as part of Parker's household, was ordained a priest on 12 April 1674. His support of the Glorious Revolution in 1688 served to advance his position. He became Bishop of Derry in 1691. He was advanced to the positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sterling King
William Sterling King (October 6, 1818 – June 29, 1882) was an American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, twice elected to the Massachusetts legislature, and was the first Chief Constable of the then-Massachusetts State Constabulary (the contemporary name of the modern Massachusetts State Police).Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 October 2019), memorial page for Gen William Sterling King (6 Oct 1818–29 Jun 1882), Find A Grave Memorial no. 121810870, citing Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Saratoga (contributor 46965279) . Early life, education and career King was born in Manhattan in 1818 to Elisha William King (1781-1836), a New York City lawyer and politician, and Margaret Van der Voort (1783-1863).Downey, Brian, Ed. (2019). ''Antietam on the Web.'' Retrieved 13 October 2019 from http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1157#note_2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
