William Addis (other)
William Addis may refer to: *William Addis (colonial administrator) (1901–1978), British governor of Seychelles *William Addis (entrepreneur) (1734–1808), English inventor of the first mass-produced toothbrush *William Edward Addis (1844–1917), Scottish-born Australian colonial clergyman *William Adyes William Adyes or Addis (by 1520 – 1558 or 1559), of Worcester, England, Worcester, was an English politician. Career He was born by 1520 in the family of John Adyes and Joan. He married Ellen by 1541 and had two sons and one daughter. He held ...

William Addis (colonial Administrator)
Sir William Addis, KBE, CMG (5 September 1901 – 19 November 1978) was a British colonial administrator. He was Governor of Seychelles from 1953 to 1958. During his tenure as governor, he was responsible for Archbishop Makarios, who had been exiled to the colony from Cyprus. Life and career The third son of the Scottish banker Sir Charles Stewart Addis, William Addis was educated at Rugby School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he took the mechanical science tripos in 1923. He entered the Colonial Administrative Service in 1924, and subsequently served in Zanzibar and Northern Rhodesia, with a secondment to the Dominions Office during 1933. He was private secretary to Sir Khalifa bin Harub, Sultan of Zanzibar from 1939 to 1945, and was a member of the Zanzibar Naval Volunteer Force during the same period. From 1945 to 1950, Addis served as Colonial Secretary of Bermuda, and acted as governor during 1945 and 1946. From 1950 to 1953, he was based in Singapore as Dep ...
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William Addis (entrepreneur)
William Addis (1734–1808) was an English entrepreneur believed to have produced the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780. Addis was born in 1734 in England, probably in Clerkenwell, London. In 1770, Addis had been gaoled for causing a riot in Spitalfields. While in prison, and observing the use of a broom to sweep the floor, he decided that the prevalent method used to clean teeth at the timecrushed shell or soot with a cloth was ineffective and could be improved. To that end, he saved a small animal bone left over from the meal he had eaten the previous night, into which he drilled small holes. He then obtained some bristles from one of his guards, which he tied in tufts that he then passed through the holes in the bone, and which he finally sealed with glue. After his release, he started a business to manufacture the toothbrushes he had built, and he soon became very rich. He died in 1808, and left the business to his eldest son, also called William, and it stayed in fami ...
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William Edward Addis
William Edward Addis, also known as Edward Addis and William Addis, (9 May 1844 – 20 February 1917) was a Scottish-born Australian colonial clergyman. He was born in Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland, and was Snell Exhibitioner to Balliol College, Oxford. He matriculated on 12 October 1861, and took a first class in Classical Moderations in 1863, and a first class in the final classical schools in 1865. He took his B.A. degree in 1866, and very shortly afterwards became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church, and a member of the congregation of St. Philip Neri at the Brompton Oratory. He left the Oratory, and became priest in charge of Lower Sydenham. In 1888 he resigned the priesthood, after issuing a circular to his parishioners announcing his abjuration of Roman Catholic doctrines, and was married, at St. John's, Notting Hill, to Miss Mary Rachel Flood. At the end of the year he accepted the post of assistant to the Rev. Charles Strong, of the Australian Church, Melbourne. Ther ...
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