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William Stokes (MP)
William Stokes may refer to: Politicians * William Stokes (MP) for Leominster (UK Parliament constituency) in 1421 * William Brickly Stokes (1814–1897), American soldier and politician * J. William Stokes (1853–1901), U.S. Representative from South Carolina * William R. Stokes, American politician and mayor of Augusta, Maine Doctors * William Stokes (physician) (1804–1878), Irish physician * Sir William Stokes (surgeon) (1839–1900), his son * William Royal Stokes (1870–1930), American physician and bacteriologist Others * William Axton Stokes (1814–1877), Philadelphia attorney and Major in the American Civil War * William Earl Dodge Stokes (1852–1926), American property developer * William Stokes (Victoria cricketer) (1857-1929), Australian cricketer * William Stokes (Western Australia cricketer) (1886-1954), Australian cricketer * William Lee Stokes William Lee Stokes (March 27, 1915, Black Hawk, Carbon County, Utah - December 12, 1994) was a geologist and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stokes (MP)
William Stokes may refer to: Politicians * William Stokes (MP) for Leominster (UK Parliament constituency) in 1421 * William Brickly Stokes (1814–1897), American soldier and politician * J. William Stokes (1853–1901), U.S. Representative from South Carolina * William R. Stokes, American politician and mayor of Augusta, Maine Doctors * William Stokes (physician) (1804–1878), Irish physician * Sir William Stokes (surgeon) (1839–1900), his son * William Royal Stokes (1870–1930), American physician and bacteriologist Others * William Axton Stokes (1814–1877), Philadelphia attorney and Major in the American Civil War * William Earl Dodge Stokes (1852–1926), American property developer * William Stokes (Victoria cricketer) (1857-1929), Australian cricketer * William Stokes (Western Australia cricketer) (1886-1954), Australian cricketer * William Lee Stokes William Lee Stokes (March 27, 1915, Black Hawk, Carbon County, Utah - December 12, 1994) was a geologist and p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leominster (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leominster was a parliamentary constituency represented until 1707 in the House of Commons of England, then until 1801 in that of Great Britain, and finally until 2010, when it disappeared in boundary changes, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1295 to 1885, Leominster was a parliamentary borough which until 1868 elected two Members of Parliament by the bloc vote system of election. Under the Reform Act 1867 its representation was reduced to one Member, elected by the first past the post system. The parliamentary borough was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, and the name was transferred to a new county constituency. History Abolition Following the review by the Boundary Commission for England of parliamentary representation in Herefordshire, no longer connected for such reasons with Worcestershire, two parliamentary constituencies have been allocated to the county. Most of the Leominster seat has been replaced by the North Herefordshire se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brickly Stokes
William Brickly Stokes (September 9, 1814 – March 14, 1897) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee. He also served as colonel of the 5th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War. Biography He was born on September 9, 1814 in Chatham County, North Carolina. He attended the common schools, moved with his family to Temperance Hall, Tennessee, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1849 to 1852. He served in the Tennessee Senate in 1855 and 1856. Stokes owned between seven and ten enslaved people in Tennessee. Stokes was elected as a member of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress by Tennessee's 4th congressional district, serving from March 4, 1859 to March 4, 1861. He entered the Union Army on May 15, 1862 as a major of the Tennessee Volunteers. He served as colonel of the 5th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry u ... [...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] |
William Stokes (physician)
William Stokes (1 October 1804 – 10 January 1878) was an Irish physician, who was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Dublin. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an MD in 1825 later returning the practice in Dublin at Meath Hospital. He went on to create two important works on cardiac and pulmonary diseases – ''A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest'' (1837) and ''The Diseases of the Heart and Aorta'' (1854) – as well as one of the first treatises on the use of the stethoscope. He emphasised the importance of clinical examination in forming diagnoses, and of ward-based learning for students of medicine. Both Cheyne–Stokes breathing (the alternation of apnoea with tachypnoea) and Stokes–Adams syndrome are named after him. ''Stokes' sign'' is a severe throbbing in the abdomen, at the right of the umbilicus, in acute enteritis. ''Stokes law'' is that a muscle situated above an inflamed membrane i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stokes (surgeon)
Sir William Stokes (10 March 1838 – 18 August 1900) was an Irish surgeon. The son of William Stokes, he was born in Dublin, studied medicine there (M.D., 1863) and at Berlin, London, Paris, and Vienna. In 1864 he settled in practice in Clare St., Dublin until 1878 when he moved to his father's house in Merrion Square. In 1864 he was elected surgeon to the Meath Hospital. He resigned this post in 1868 upon his appointment as surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals (which included the Richmond Hospital). In 1871 he became Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1886–1887 and was knighted in 1886. In 1888 he returned to the Meath Hospital as surgeon, and was appointed surgeon in ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1892. He was a governor of the Westmoreland Lock Hospital in Dublin. In 1900 he went to South Africa as consulting surgeon to the British forces in the war against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Royal Stokes
William Royal Stokes (1870 – February 9, 1930) was Baltimore City's bacteriologist. While investigating the 1929–1930 psittacosis pandemic, he contracted psittacosis Psittacosis—also known as parrot fever, and ornithosis—is a zoonotic infectious disease in humans caused by a bacterium called ''Chlamydia psittaci'' and contracted from infected parrots, such as macaws, cockatiels, and budgerigars, and from ... and died. An annual lecture, a library dedicated to bacteriology and a street are named for him. References American bacteriologists 1870 births 1930 deaths {{US-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Axton Stokes
William Axton Stokes (1814 – May 3, 1877) was an attorney born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who lived for a time in Greensburg, Pennsylvania where he served as legal counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He went on to serve as an American Civil War major who contributed notes and references to an American edition of Mathew Hale's (1609–1676) ''Historia placitorum coronae'' (''History of the pleas of the crown'') published by R. H. Small of Philadelphia in 1847. Between January 1863 and August 1864, he owned The Republican, one of the first local newspapers in Greensburg, PA. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1872. Stokes Mansion and Meeting with Andrew Carnegie In 1850, at the age of 36, Stokes was persuaded by his legal client, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to take a residence in the southwestern portion of Pennsylvania. He took up residence in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in Westmoreland County in a hilltop dwelling that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Earl Dodge Stokes
William Earle Dodge Stokes (May 22, 1852 – May 18, 1926) was an American multimillionaire responsible for developing much of New York City, New York's Upper West Side. Early life Stokes was born in New York City on May 22, 1852. He was the son of James Boulter Stokes, James Boulter and Caroline (née Phelps) Stokes; brother of Anson Phelps Stokes and Olivia Eggleston Phelps Stokes. One of his grandfathers was London merchant Thomas Stokes, one of the 13 founders of the London Missionary Society, and Anson Stokes later actively supported the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society and the American Peace Society. His other grandfather, Anson Greene Phelps, was a New York merchant, born in Connecticut and descended from an old Massachusetts family. Web page titled "Grandfather, Father, & Son / The Three Anson Phelps Stokes: Anglo-America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stokes (Victoria Cricketer)
William Stokes (11 December 1857 – 16 August 1929) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1882. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers This is a list of Victoria first-class cricketers. The Victoria cricket team have played first-class cricket since 1851, when they played the Tasmania cricket team at Launceston. Below is a chronological list of cricketers to have represented Vi ... References External links * 1857 births 1929 deaths Sportspeople from the Colony of Victoria Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne {{Australia-cricket-bio-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Stokes (Western Australia Cricketer)
William Stokes (28 July 1886 – 4 October 1954) was an Australian cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Western Australia between 1921/22 and 1928/29. See also * List of Western Australia first-class cricketers A total of 455 players have appeared for Western Australia in men's first-class cricket matches since the team's first-class debut during the 1892–93 Australian cricket season. As of the end of the 2012–13 season, Western Australia as a team ... References External links * 1886 births 1954 deaths Australian cricketers Western Australia cricketers Sportspeople from Geraldton {{Australia-cricket-bio-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lee Stokes
William Lee Stokes (March 27, 1915, Black Hawk, Carbon County, Utah - December 12, 1994) was a geologist and paleontologist who is best known for his work at Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Emery County, Utah. William Stokes lived to be 79 and was survived by his wife Betty Stokes, his two daughters, Patricia Stokes and Betty Lee Huff; a son, William M. Stokes, and several grandchildren. The dinosaur ''Stokesosaurus'' was named after him. Stokes graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in 1937 and M.S. in 1938. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geology from Princeton University in 1941. Stokes, a Latter-day Saint, wrote extensively about science and religion, and against Young Earth creationism. In spite of his scientific qualifications and record, many of his manuscripts went unpublished. One that did, ''The Genesis Answer,'' was nominated by the publisher, Prentice-Hall, for the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence. His writings did find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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