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William Moore (other)
William Moore, and variations of William such as Will, Willie, Bill or Billy Moore, may refer to: Artists and entertainers * Billy Moore (musician, born 1917) (1917–1989), American jazz musician *Billy Moore (musician, born 1931) (1931–2002), Guyana caribbean musician * Wild Bill Moore (1918–1983), tenor saxophone player Expos * William Moore (critic) (1868–1937), Australian art critic and author * William Moore (musician) (1893–1951), U.S. blues singer and guitarist * William Moore (actor) (1916–2000), British TV actor * William Moore (dancer) (1933–1992), African American dance critic, dancer, researcher, managed the Eleo Pomare Dance Company at one time * William Henry Moore (1872–1960), Canadian author and Member of the Canadian House of Commons * William R. Moore (journalist) (1909/10–1950), war correspondent killed in the Korean War * Willie "Pdub" Moore Jr., actor and comedian Businesspeople * William Moore (banker) (1914–2009), chairman of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Moore (musician, Born 1917)
William Moore Jr. (December 7, 1917, Parkersburg, West Virginia — February 28, 1989, Copenhagen) was an American jazz pianist and arranger. Moore was chiefly known as an arranger for most of his jazz career, writing charts for Jimmie Lunceford, Charlie Barnet, Jan Savitt, and Tommy Dorsey in the 1940s. He also worked for publishing companies in New York City. In the 1950s, he relocated to France, where he accompanied and wrote for The Peters Sisters from 1953 to 1960. From 1960 to 1963, he worked as an arranger for Berliner Rundfunk and then accompanied the Delta Rhythm Boys on tour. He moved to Copenhagen in the 1970s, where he remained active as an arranger. Moore and Leonard Feather were friends, and Feather sometimes used Moore's name for songwriting credits."Billy Moore". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moore (loyalist)
William Moore (1949 – 17 May 2009), was a Northern Irish loyalist. He was a member of the Shankill Butchers, an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) gang. It was Moore who provided the black taxi and butcher knives which the gang used to carry out its killings. Following ringleader Lenny Murphy's arrest, Moore took over as the ''de facto'' leader of the gang and the killings continued. Shankill Butchers Moore was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and brought up a Protestant in the staunchly Ulster loyalist Shankill Road. Moore, who had a few previous convictions for petty crime, worked as a meat packer at Woodvale Meats on the Shankill. When he quit his job, he took with him an assortment of butcher's knives and a meat cleaver. He then became a taxi driver, having bought a black taxi which he drove around the Shankill area. In 1975, Moore met Lenny Murphy in the Brown Bear pub on the Shankill Road.Taylor, p. 153 Murphy, who was assembling the gang that become known as the Shankill But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moore Hall (Phoenixville, Pennsylvania)
Moore Hall, also known as the William Moore House, is a historic home located in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The house dates back to about 1722, and is a -story, five-bay by three-bay, fieldstone dwelling in the Georgian style. It has a gable roof, two-story rear kitchen wing and sun porch. It was restored in the late-1930s. During the American Revolution the house served as headquarters for Col. Clement Biddle in late-1777 and early-1778, during the encampment at Valley Forge. At that time, a committee of congress met at Moore Hall for three months and there decided that Gen. George Washington should serve as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. At the turn of the 20th century, the house was the summer home for Pennsylvania Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. References External links William Moore House, State Route 23 & Reading Railroad Tracks vicinity (Schuy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moore (Banbury MP)
William Moore (4 June 1699 – 26 October 1746) of Polesden Lacey, Surrey, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1740 to 1746. Moore was the eldest son of Arthur Moore and his second wife who was from Linton, Gloucestershire. In 1730, he succeeded his father to Fetcham Park, Surrey, which his father had built at vast expense. He had to sell it in February 1735 to pay his father's debts on it. However he succeeded his uncle, Colonel Thomas Moore. at Polesden Lacey in 1735. Moore was returned as Member of Parliament for Banbury at a by-election on 25 November 1740 by his friend Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford. He voted against the Administration in all recorded divisions except for the motion for removing Walpole in February 1741. He was returned unopposed for Banbury at the 1741 British general election. He signed the opposition whip of 10 March 1743. Moore died on 26 October 1746, and left his estates to North's son Frederick Frederick may refer to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henson Moore
William Henson Moore III (born October 4, 1939) is an American attorney and businessman who is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, having represented Louisiana's 6th congressional district, based about Baton Rouge, from 1975 to 1987. He was only the second Republican to have represented Louisiana in the House since Reconstruction, the first having been David C. Treen, then of Jefferson Parish. In 1986, Moore was the unsuccessful Republican candidate in the race to replace the retiring U.S. Senator Russell B. Long. He lost to Democrat John B. Breaux, then of Crowley in Acadia Parish in southwestern Louisiana. Early life and education Moore was born in Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana, to W.H. Moore, II, an oil company executive, and the former Madge Pearce. The family lived in Hackberry in Cameron Parish and then moved to Baton Rouge, where Moore graduated in 1958 from Baton Rouge High School. In 1957, at the age of seventeen, Moore ... [...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] |
William S
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 Robert Moore
William Robert Moore (March 28, 1830 – June 12, 1909), known as Wm. R. Moore,Lauderdale, Vance (November 1, 2012)William R. Moore ''Memphis Magazine''. Retrieved December 18, 2021. was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee, and founder of the William R. Moore College of Technology. Biography Moore was born in the hills near Huntsville, Alabama on March 28, 1830, son of Robert Cleveland and Mary F. (Lingow) Moore. Both families were considered aristocratic, and Moore's father traced his ancestry back to Oliver Cromwell. When his father died just six months after Moore's birth, the family was left destitute, and subsequently took up farming. They moved around frequently, eventually landing in the little community of Beech Grove, Tennessee. When Moore was six years old, the family settled in Fosterville, Rutherford County, Tennessee. He attended the district schools. Career Forced to leave school at age 12, Moore went to work as a farm hand. He worked barefoot in the fields for $ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Moore, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Moore, 2nd Baronet (1663 – 28 August 1693) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Moore was the son of Sir Emanuel Moore, 1st Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ... and Martha Hull, and in 1692 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. He was the Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and his death in 1693.E. M. Johnston-Liik''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.109. Retrieved 24 January 2023. Moore married Catherine Percival on 19 October 1683; they had two sons. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Emanuel Moore. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, William, 2nd Baronet 1663 births 1693 deaths 17th-century Anglo-Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet
Sir William Moore, 1st Baronet, PC (NI), DL (22 November 1864 – 28 November 1944) was a Unionist member of the British House of Commons from Ireland and a Judge of Ireland, and subsequently of Northern Ireland. He was created a Baronet (of Moore Lodge, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) in 1932. Early life and education Sir William was the eldest son of Queen Victoria's honorary physician in Ireland, Dr. William Moore of Rosnashane, Ballymoney, and Sidney Blanche Fuller.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921'', John Murray London 1926 Vol.ii p.386 His ancestors came to Ulster during the Plantation, settling at Ballymoney, at which time they were Quakers. The Moore Lodge estate was inherited from a relative; the family owned several other houses: Moore's Grove and Moore's Fort. Sir William Moore's mother was Sidney Blanche Fuller. In 1888 he married Helen Wilson, the daughter of a Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh. Sir William went on to become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moore (Clogher MP)
Hon. William Moore (11 December 1743 – 21 November 1810) was an Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1765 to 1776 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Clogher in County Tyrone, Clonmel in County Tipperary from 1781 to 1792, and for St Johnstown in County Longford from 1798 until his resignation in January 1800 by the procedural device of accepting the office of Escheator of Munster. He was the third son of Stephen Moore, 1st Viscount Mount Cashell Stephen Moore, 1st Viscount Mount Cashell (1696 – 26 February 1766), known as The Lord Kilworth between 1764 and 1766, was an Irish politician. Moore was the son of Richard Moore, of Cashell, County Tipperary, by the Honourable Elizabeth Pons ..., by his second wife, and younger half-brother of Stephen Moore, 1st Earl Mount Cashell. References 1743 births 1810 deaths Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Moore (Ardee MP)
Hon. William Moore ( – 1 April 1732) was an Irish politician. He sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1715 to 1727 as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Ardee in County Louth. He was the fifth son of Henry Hamilton-Moore, 3rd Earl of Drogheda Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, .... References Year of birth uncertain 1685 births 1732 deaths Irish MPs 1715–1727 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Louth constituencies Younger sons of earls {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
