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William Morris (other)
William Morris (1834–1896) was a British writer, designer, and socialist. William, Bill, Willie, or Billy Morris may also refer to: Arts Literature * (1889–1979), writer, archdruid of Wales *William C. Morris (1928/29–2003), American publisher, namesake of the William C. Morris Award *Willie Morris (1934–1999), American writer *William Morris, known as Haldreyn (born 1937), Cornish poet *Captain William Morris, a fictional character in the Richard Sharpe novels Other arts *W. W. Morris (William Walker Morris, 1832–?), English painter *William Morris (actor) (1861–1936), American actor *William Charles Morris (1874–1940), American cartoonist *William Morris (glass artist) (born 1957), American glass artist *Billy Morris (guitarist), guitarist Business Corporations *William Morris Agency, a Hollywood talent agency *William Morris Endeavor, a Hollywood talent agency *William Morris Fine Arts, ex-owner of the Morris Singer foundry People *William Morris (Canadian busin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of socialism in ''fin de siècle'' Great Britain. Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, to a wealthy middle-class family. He came under the strong influence of medievalism while studying Classics at Oxford University, there joining the Birmingham Set. After university, he married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. Webb and Morris designed Red House in Kent where Morris lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swindon Advertiser
The ''Swindon Advertiser'' is a daily tabloid newspaper, published in Swindon. The newspaper was founded in 1854, and had an audited average daily circulation at the end of 2017 of 8,828. It claims to have been the UK's first provincial 'penny-paper'.A newspaper to support the cause of the common man ''holdthefrontpage.co.uk'' accessed 11 December 2006 It is owned by , the UK subsidiary of U.S.-based . It is the original of the four newspapers that had their headquarters in the Newsquest Wiltshire building in V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Harrington Morris
William is a masculine given name of Norman French 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, Liam, 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 German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Case Morris
Soham ( ) is a town and civil parish in the district of East Cambridgeshire, in Cambridgeshire, England, just off the A142 between Ely and Newmarket. Its population was 10,860 at the 2011 census. History Archaeology The region between Devil's Dyke and the line between Littleport and Shippea Hill shows a remarkable amount of archaeological findings of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. A couple of hoards of bronze objects are found in the area of Soham, including one with swords and spearheads of the later Bronze Age as well as a gold torc, retrieved in 1938. A large Anglo-Saxon settlement was discovered on land between Brook Street and Fordham Road, next to Roman remains in the old Fisky's Hill area and former allotment site in 2013 and onwards. During the establishment of the Fordham Road cemetery, in the late 1800's, burial remains were also found with several high-status grave goods, including a girdle hanger, beads and Jewlery. These items are now housed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ridgley Morris
William Ridgley Morris (1811February 27, 1889) was an American politician and diplomat. Morris, son of Dr. William Morris, a physician in Dover, Delaware, was born in Dover in 1811. After graduation from Yale College in 1830, he studied law for three years with the Hon. John M. Clayton, in Dover, and soon after his admission to the bar was elected clerk of the Delaware State Senate. At the close of the session he settled in York, Pa., where he became prosecuting attorney for York County, and soon secured a good practice. In President Zachary Taylor's administration (1849) he was appointed Consul at St. Thomas, and on his return from that post resumed the practice of his profession, in Philadelphia, from which city he was chosen the next year as a representative to the Pennsylvania State Legislature. In the spring of 1856 he returned to Dover and established himself on a fruit farm near the town, where he attended mainly to agricultural pursuits and indulged his genius for poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Morris (British Politician)
William Morris (1811 – 25 February 1877) was a British Liberal Party politician and banker. Morris was active in the public life of Carmarthen for many years before his election to Parliament and served as mayor of the borough on four occasions. Morris was elected MP for Carmarthen Boroughs at a by-election in 1864, after his cousin David Morris died in office. Although there was speculation about several other possible candidates, requisitions inviting Morris to fill the vacancy appeared almost immediately after the former member's funeral. He then held the seat until 1868 when he did not stand for re-election. Morris also served as a Justice of the Peace for Carmarthenshire and Carmarthen, and a High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire This is a list of High Sheriffs of Carmarthenshire. Carmarthenshire was originally created by the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. It became an administrative county in 1889 with a county council following the Local Government Act 1888. Under the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Morris (Irish Mayor)
William Morris was Mayor of Galway, 1527-28. Morris was the first of two members of his family who would serve as Mayors of Galway. A law passed during his term outlawed the playing of games such as hurling and handball, with archery and football encouraged in its place. His descendants would include Baron Killanin, and the filmmaker John Ford. See also * Tribes of Galway References * ''History of Galway'', James Hardiman, Galway, 1820. * ''Old Galway'', Maureen Donovan O'Sullivan Mary Josephine Donovan O'Sullivan was Professor of History at Queens College, Galway (now NUI Galway) from 1914 to 1957. Biography One of ten children, four of whom survived infancy, Donovan was born at Fair Hill Road in Galway on 24 November ..., 1942. * Henry, William (2002). ''Role of Honour: The Mayors of Galway City 1485-2001''. Galway: Galway City Council. * Martyn, Adrian (2016). ''The Tribes of Galway: 1124-1642'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, William Mayors of Galway Politicians fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Powers Morris
William is a male given name of Germanic languages, 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 (given name), Will, Wills (given name), Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill (given name), Bill, and Billy (name), Billy. A common Irish people, Irish form is Liam. Scottish people, Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play Douglas (play)#Theme and response, ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma (given name), Wilma and Wilhelmina (given name), Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wilkerson Morris
William Wilkerson Morris (born about 1843) was an American soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions from September 9 to 11, 1874, during the Battle of the Upper Washita River in the Red River War, a part of the American Indian Wars. Early life William Wilkerson Morris was born in about 1843 in Stewart County, Tennessee, the youngest child of Nathan Gilbert Morris and Charlotte (Wallace) Morris of Stewart County. In the 1860 U. S. Census., at age 17, he was living with his parents in Stewart County, working as a dry goods salesman. Military service At age 29, on June 1, 1872, at Louisville, Kentucky, he enlisted in Company H, 6th U. S. Cavalry.National Archives Microfilm Publication M233: Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C. His occupation was then noted as a bookkeeper. He was 5 feet, 8 1/2 inches tall, with hazel eyes, black hair and dark complexion. From September 9– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
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 Morris (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-Colonel William Morris, CB (18 December 1820 – 11 July 1858Sir R. White-Thomson, A Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel William Morris', 1903) was a British Army officer who rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Origins He was born on 18 December 1820 at Fishleigh in the parish of Hatherleigh in Devon, the eldest of four sons of William Cholmeley Morris of Fishleigh and Inwardleigh, and brother of five sisters. His mother was Jane Veale, daughter of James Veale (who following an inheritance had changed his name by deed-poll from "Mallet"). His youngest brother was Col. Montague Cholmeley Morris, formerly a lieutenant in the 75th Regiment, who served during the Indian Mutiny. His grandfather was the wealthy Barbados estate owner William Morris (died 1796) of Bridgetown, Barbados, whose second wife was Mary Judith Cholmeley, a daughter of Robert Cholmeley (died 1754) of Barbados, a younger son of James Cholmeley (died 1735) of Easton, Lincolnshire. Another of Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
