William Royce (other)
William Royce may refer to: * William Royce (politician), English politician * William James Royce, American playwright, director, screenwriter, and novelist * William Hobart Royce, American writer and bookseller * Bill Royce, college football player See also * Royce (other) Markus Bennett is an American hip-hop recording artist. People Surname * Ed Royce (born 1951), American politician * Elwyn E. Royce (1868–1960), American politician * Henry Royce (1863–1933), cofounder of the Rolls-Royce automobile company * H ...

William Royce (politician)
William Stapleton Royce (13 December 1858 – 23 June 1924) was an English Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Holland with Boston constituency from 1918 until 1924. He was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and was educated at the Willesby School and at Pretty's Commercial School, Spalding. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a joiner, but served only two years of his apprenticeship before running away to London, where he worked on the construction of the General Post Office building in St Martin's-le-Grand. Three months later, he learned that the Government of Cape Town was offering free passage to South Africa for men to build the railways in that country. He accepted a three-year contract, at the end of which he had saved enough money to set up in business on his own account. During the next thirty years Royce was heavily engaged on the construction of various railway lines in South Africa, as well as some important public buildings. He marrie ...
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William James Royce
William James Royce is an American playwright/director, screenwriter, and novelist. Career Television William Royce began his television career writing for the NBC television series '' In the Heat of the Night'', starring Emmy Award winning actor Carroll O'Connor as Chief William O. Gillespie and Academy Award nominee Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs. Royce wrote 22 episodes while serving as Executive Story Editor, a position he inherited from writer Matt Harris (Carroll O'Connor). In 1991, Royce wrote the screenplay, as well as the music and lyrics, for the award winning episode entitled, ''Sweet, Sweet Blues'', inspired by the real life saga of Medgar Evers. That season '' In the Heat of the Night'' won its first NAACP Image Award for ''Outstanding Dramatic Series''. In 1994, after the seventh season, Royce left the show to write for Dick Van Dyke on the mystery series '' Diagnosis: Murder'', and later for the Emmy Award winning mystery series '' Murder, She Wrot ...
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William Hobart Royce
William Hobart Royce (; 20 March 1878 – 28 January 1963) was an American writer and bookseller who was an expert on Honoré de Balzac. Royce published poetry under his own name and under his pen name Willie Penmore. Early life Born on March 20, 1878, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Royce graduated from the Springfield High School in 1897 but did not attend college. He later said that his "only university has been the New York Public Library." Balzac Royce lived his life in emulation of Balzac and was the founder (1940) and president of the Balzac Society of America. In 1935, Royce was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor and was made an honorary citizen of Issoudun, where Balzac's '' La Rabouilleuse'' was set. Career Royce worked first in a bookshop in Springfield, before moving to New York where he spent twelve years with the American News Company followed by seven years at Max Harzof's Lexington Book Shop. According to Harzof, Royce's "main virtue was that he could be ...
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Bill Royce
Bill Royce (born July 14, 1971) is an American former college football player. He is currently a sales executive for Astec Industries Materials Solutions Group. While at Northmor High School, Royce had top eight finishes during the 1989 Ohio High School Athletic Association championship. At Ashland College, Royce was fourth at the shot put held during the 1992 NCAA Division II men's indoor track and field championships. With the Ashland Eagles football team, he was a Player of the Year for the Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference and nominated for the Harlon Hill Trophy twice. Royce's 71 sacks became a career record the school and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Outside of football, Royce began his recycling career with Eagle Crusher during 2002. He held executive positions with the company before joining KPI-JCI and Astec Mobile Screens in 2011. Royce continued to work in sales there throughout the 2010s before joining Astec. Royce joined the College ...
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