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William Willis (police Officer)
William Willis may refer to: Politicians *William Willis (Maine politician) (1794–1870), American politician and historian, mayor of Portland, Maine, 1857 *William Willis Garth (1828–1912), American politician *William Willis (British politician) (1835–1911), British politician, MP for Colchester 1880–1885 *William Jarvis Willis (1840–1884), New Zealand politician *William Nicholas Willis (1858–1922), Australian politician Others *William Downes Willis (1790–1871), British clergyman, theologian and author *William Willis (physician) (1837–1894), British physician *William Willis (inventor) (1841–1923), British inventor *William Willis (sailor) (1893–1968), rafter and adventurer *William Hailey Willis (1916–2000), American classicist *William S. Willis (1921–1983), ethnohistorian and pioneer in African American anthropology *William Willis (artist) (born 1943), American artist See also *Bill Willis (1921–2007), American football player {{hndis, Willis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willis (Maine Politician)
William Willis (1794–1870) was a Portland, Maine lawyer, historian, and politician, and was the partner of William Pitt Fessenden. He was member of the Maine State Senate in 1855 and Mayor of Portland, Maine in 1857, president of the Maine Historical Society (1856–1865), and president of the Maine Central Railroad. In 1864 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. Bowdoin College Bowdoin College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The college offers 34 majors and 36 minors, as well as several joint eng ..., which granted him an honorary degree in 1867, has a small collection of his correspondence, drafts of his writing, and estate information. Selected bibliography * * References External linksShade Trees — an exert from History of Portland, By William Willis written in 1864 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willis Garth
William Willis Garth (October 28, 1828 – February 25, 1912) was an American politician. He served as a representative of the Alabama's 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives between March 4, 1877, and March 3, 1879. Garth was born on October 28, 1828, in Morgan County, Alabama. He pursued classical studies at Lagrange, Virginia and at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, and studied law at the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the Alabama bar and practiced law at Huntsville, Alabama. During the Civil War, he served as a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General James Longstreet in the Confederate Army. Garth was elected in 1876 as a Democratic representative to the 45th Congress The 45th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1877, ..., b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willis (British Politician)
William Willis (29 April 1835 – 22 August 1911) was an English barrister, judge, and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Life Born 29 April 1835 in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, he was the son of William Willis, a straw hat manufacturer of Luton and Esther Kentish Masters of London. He was educated at Huddersfield College and at the University of London. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1861 and went on the south-eastern circuit. In 1877 he became a QC. Willis visited Japan in late 19th century. He married firstly Annie Outhwaite, daughter of John Outhwaite and Elizabeth Collins, by whom he had six daughters and four sons. Following Annie's death around 1894, he married Marie Elizabeth Moody on 2 September 1897, with whom he had one son, Arthur Thomas Willis. At the 1880 general election Willis was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester Colchester ( ) is a city in Essex, in the East of England. It had a popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jarvis Willis
William Jarvis Willis (1840 – 1 March 1884) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Rangitikei region of New Zealand. Biography Willis was born in Sussex, England, the son of Rev. Thomas Willis and his wife Maria Augusta Lowe. He was educated at Eton College and then obtained a commission as ensign in the 14th Regiment. The regiment went to New Zealand in 1861 and he was Lieutenant and adjutant to the 2nd Battalion until the end of the war. He sold out in England and settled in New Zealand where he was appointed resident magistrate in Wairarapa. He took a farm at Marton adjoining the one of William Fox. Willis continued to act as Chairman of Petty Sessions for Rangitikei. During the confrontations with Maori, he was major in command of militia and volunteers in Rangitikei and Manawatu. He was appointed resident magistrate for the district in December 1863. In 1864 he purchased land near Marton which he called Woodendean. He soon introduced the first Romney sheep i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nicholas Willis
William Nicholas Willis (3 August 1858 – 3 April 1922) was an Australian politician and newspaper proprietor. Early life Willis was born in Mudgee, New South Wales and educated in Mudgee and, briefly, at St Mary's School in Sydney, which he left at age nine to help support his mother after his father's departure to California. He worked first as an office boy. He eventually became a successful hawker along the Macquarie, Darling and Bogan rivers. Between 1879 and 1888, he opened and managed stores in partnership with T. L. Richardson, at Girilambone, Nyngan, and Brewarrina. He bought the ''Central Australian and Bourke Telegraph''. In 1888, he married Mary Hayes and became a grazier near Brewarrina. Political career Willis ran unsuccessfully for Bourke in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1887, but won it as a Protectionist in 1889 and held it to 1894. Willis founded the Truth in 1890. He was the member for The Barwon from 1894 to 1904. He had become a suppl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Downes Willis
William Downes Willis (9 September 1790 – 22 October 1871) was a British clergyman, theologian, and author on religious subjects. Early life and education Willis was the son of William Willis and Mary, daughter of landowner Robert Hamilton Smyth, of Lismore, Co. Down, of the family of the Viscounts Strangford. He was born at Dublin, where his father, an Army Captain, was then stationed. His middle name came from his paternal grandmother; the Downes family, of Rotherham, were wool merchants and yeoman landowners who married into the landed gentry Kent family of Kimberworth. Willis was educated at Uppingham and Rugby (where he was a praepostor), then admitted in 1807 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He migrated in 1809 to Sidney Sussex College, graduating BA in 1813, and MA in 1819. Career Ordained a deacon in 1813, and a priest in 1814, by Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, Archbishop of York, Willis was curate- later priest- at Pontefract, Yorkshire until 1816. In 1817 he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willis (physician)
William Willis (1 May 183714 February 1894) was a British physician (medical doctor) who joined the British mission in Japan in 1861. Biography Willis was born in Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, Ireland in 1837. In 1855 he was enrolled at the faculty of medicine in the University of Glasgow (Scotland), where he completed his pre-medical and pre-clinical studies. He then transferred to the University of Edinburgh. After his graduation in May 1859 with the thesis ''"Theory of ulceration"'' he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and received the degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University with a thesis on the "Theory of Ulceration". He then worked at the Middlesex Hospital in London. In 1861 he was accepted for a medical post with the British legation in Japan. He reached Edo in May 1862 to begin his duties as medical officer and clerk under Sir Harry Smith Parkes. Between 1862 and 1867 he worked mainly in Yokohama. Being there on the day of Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willis (inventor)
William Willis Jr. (1841–1923) is a British inventor who developed the platinum printing process, an early form of photography, based on the light sensitivity of platinum salts, originally discovered by John Herschel. Willis made the first platinum print in 1873 and patented it, but the process was imperfect, attracting little interest. In 1874, the British Journal of Photography announced his Platinum Printing process. It gave a report of the process on 4 June 1875. By 1879 he had improved the process sufficiently to justify founding the Platinotype Company to market his papers. He began marketing his pre-coated papers in 1880. Taking his cue from Daguerre's marketing practices with his Daguerreotypes, Willis sold licenses to photographers wanting to use his process, and then sold them the materials. He lived for many years in Bromley (Kent) and took a considerable interest in the nearby local cottage hospital to which he donated land and funds as well as buying their first X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Willis (sailor)
William Willis (September 8, 1893 – July 1968) was an American sailor and writer who is famous due to his solo rafting expeditions across oceans. Early years Willis became a sailor at 15, leaving his home in Hamburg, Germany, to sail around Cape Horn. A few days after New Years, 1938 (Page 5, "Damned and Damned Again") Willis rented a room in New York City from a French immigrant named Madame Carnot. Her son, Bernard Carnot, had been sent to Devil's Island in 1922 for a murder that he did not commit. Out of compassion and a sense of adventure, Willis set out to the penal colony to effect Bernard Carnot's escape, which he eventually accomplished. During his first solo expedition in 1954 from South America to American Samoa, he sailed 6,700 miles – 2,200 miles farther than did Thor Heyerdahl on Kon-Tiki. His raft was named "Seven Little Sisters" and was crewed by himself, his parrot, and cat. Willis was age 61 at the time of this voyage. He selected the seven great balsa tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hailey Willis
William Hailey Willis (April 29, 1916, Meridian, Mississippi – July 13, 2000, Durham, North Carolina) was an American classicist and a leading twentieth century papyrologist. Early life Willis was the son of William W. Willis and Clara B. (Hailey) Willis. He married Rachel E. (Hamilton) Willis on December 20, 1943, in Meridian, MS. Scholarly career Willis was educated at Mississippi College (B.A.), Columbia University (M.A.), and Yale University (Ph.D.). Willis was a professor of Classics at the University of Mississippi from 1946 until 1963, when he relocated to Duke University. Willis' decision to change institutions in 1963 was related, in part, to the strife that surrounded racial integration at the University of Mississippi, a cause that he had both supported and advanced. In 1973 Willis served as president of the American Philological Association. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1980. Willis' scholarly career included extensive work on papyrology and he publis ... [...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 Willis (artist)
William Willis (born 1943) is an American abstract painter. Biography Willis was born in 1943 in Sheffield, Alabama. He lives on the coast of Maryland, and works in Washington, D.C.Johnson, Linda. "The Art of William Willis." "Span", August, 1990. Print. He usually makes paintings and works on paper in muted colors as abstractions of the natural world. Eastern philosophy and religion influenced his work in the 1980s. In Washington, D.C., Willis exhibited a dozen years of his work at the Phillips Collection in 1989 and also taught at the Corcoran School of Art.Johnson, Eric. "An eye for art." "Metro Spirit", 2007. Retrieved on 16 August 2010. Education Willis received a BA in studio art and an MFA in painting from the University of South Florida, Tampa."Faculty Biographies - William Willis. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
