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William Bailey (artist)
William or Bill Bailey may refer to: Politicians *William Bailey (MP) (died 1409), MP for Salisbury *William J. Bailey (1807–1876), British-born physician and politician in the Oregon Country *William Henry Bailey (1831–1908), American author, lawyer, and statesman * William Gill Bailey (1833–1889), politician in Queensland, Australia * William Francis Bailey (1842–1915), American politician and judge *William Bailey Lamar (1853–1928), American politician and lawyer *William Bailey (Canadian politician) (1889–1975), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1930–1935 *William B. Bailey (1892–1977), American politician in the Massachusetts House of Representatives * Bill Bailey (Indiana politician) (born 1948), American businessman and politician * Billy Wayne Bailey (1957–2023), former Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate *William Bailey (South Carolina politician) (born 1962), Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives Sportsm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bailey (MP)
William Bailey (died 1409) was a draper and a Member of Parliament for Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency), Salisbury in 1406. He was elected to serve in the Parliament of 1410, but died in November 1409, before the Parliament assembled. It is not known if a replacement was elected. References 14th-century births 1409 deaths Year of birth missing 15th-century English people Members of Parliament for Salisbury English MPs 1406 {{15thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bailey (American Football)
Edgar Lee "Bill" Bailey (April 12, 1916 – April 9, 1990) was a professional American football player who played wide receiver for the Brooklyn Dodgers The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1884 as a member of the American Association (19th century), American Association before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brooklyn until 1957, after which the .... He was drafted in the fourth round of the 1940 NFL Draft. References 1916 births 1990 deaths American football wide receivers Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) players Duke Blue Devils football players {{widereceiver-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frederick Bailey
William Frederick Bailey (9 February 1857 – 16 April 1917), was an Irish lawyer and writer. Bailey was born in Castletown Conyers, County Limerick, Ireland. He was educated in Trinity College Dublin, and called to the Irish Bar in 1881. He practised on the Munster Circuit and was Barrington lecturer in Political Economy TCD and Extern in English for the Intermediate Education Board. Bailey was one of the Secretaries to the Royal Commission on Irish Published Works (1880), Legal Assistant to the Commissioners under the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885 and Secretary to the Statistical and Social Inquiry of 1902. He was appointed CB in the 1906 Birthday Honours and became a Privy Councillor in 1909. His works included 'Local and Centralised Government in Ireland' (1888) and 'Ireland since the Famine' (1902). He also published editions of poetry including works of Gray and Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (; 21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, liter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bailey (engineer)
Sir William Henry Bailey (10 May 1838 – 22 November 1913) was a British engineer, businessman and local politician, knighted by Queen Victoria for his work on the creation of the Manchester Ship Canal. Bailey was born on 10 May 1838 in Salford, England to John Bailey and Elizabeth Ann Bailey. He was involved in the local politics of the Borough of Salford, being first an alderman, and later elected Mayor of the borough in 1893. He was knighted by Queen Victoria on the royal yacht in 1894 on the occasion of Her Majesty opening the Manchester Ship Canal. Sir William was one of the promoters of the Canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ..., and was a member of the Provisional Committee.1913 Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Obituaries Bailey died in London o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Trist Bailey
William Trist Bailey (October 9, 1846, Torquay, Devon, England - February 21, 1910, New York City, United States) was a land developer who founded the community of Bayswater near Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City. He purchased the land from the descendants of Richard Cornell Richard Cornell (16251693) was an English Quaker ironmaster and resident of Long Island who is generally considered the first European settler on the Rockaway Peninsula in the present-day Borough of Queens, New York City. Cornell purchased the Rock ... in 1878, and turned Bayswater into a fashionable residential neighborhood. Streets in Bayswater which bear his name are Trist Place and Bailey Court. Bailey is buried in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. References 1846 births 1910 deaths English emigrants to the United States Land owners and developers in Rockaway, Queens People from Torquay 19th-century American businesspeople {{NYC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Rachel Bailey
Alfredo André Cesar Quaglino (1894–1972) was an Italian society photographer, journalist, and motor racer who spent most of his life on the French Riviera. He competed in the Biarritz-St Moritz rally in 1929. He photographed many figures from the worlds of art and entertainment and at the end of his life entered into a marriage of convenience with his lesbian friend Billy Bailey. Early life Quaglino was born in Turin, Italy, on 8 November 1894. Sometime in the 1920s, he broke with his family and settled in Cagnes-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, an area known for its connection to motor racing and it may have been motor racing that facilitated his introduction to the glamorous people with whom he mingled. He competed in the Biarritz-St Moritz rally on 15–19 August 1929 in a Fiat 520 Roadster and probably competed in other races. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Bailey (Gunfight At Hide Park)
The Gunfight at Hide Park, or Newton Massacre, was the name given to an Old West gunfight that occurred on August 19, 1871, in Newton, Kansas, United States. It was well publicized at the time, but since has received little historical attention, despite it producing a higher body count than the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight of 1881. Unlike most other well-known gunfights of the Old West, it involved no notable or well known gunfighters, nor did it propel any of its participants into any degree of fame. Its legend has grown, however, because one of the participants simply walked away from the scene, never to be seen again. The gunfight The incident began with an argument between two local lawmen, Billy Bailey and Mike McCluskie. The two men began arguing on August 11, 1871, over local politics on election day in the "Red Front Saloon", located in downtown Newton. The argument developed into a fist fight, with Bailey being knocked outside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bailey
Mark Robert Bailey (born 13 January 1965), known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English musician, comedian and actor. He is known for his role as Manny in the sitcom ''Black Books'' and his appearances on the panel shows ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'', '' Have I Got News for You'', and '' QI'', as well as for his stand-up comedy work. He plays a variety of musical instruments and incorporates music into his performances. Bailey was listed by ''The Observer'' as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in 2003. In 2007, and again in 2010, he was voted the seventh greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's ''100 Greatest Stand-Ups''. In 2020 Bailey won the 18th series of the televised BBC dancing competition ''Strictly Come Dancing'' with his professional partner Oti Mabuse. At 55, he was the oldest winner in the show's history. Early life Mark Robert Bailey was born on 13 January 1965 in Bath, Somerset, the son of a medical practitioner father and hospital ward employee mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose Jr.; born February 6, 1962) is an American musician. He is best known for being the lead vocalist and lyricist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, and has been the band's sole constant member since its inception in 1985. Possessing a distinctive and powerful wide-ranging voice, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including ''Rolling Stone'' and ''NME''. Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Rose moved in the early 1980s to Los Angeles, where he became active in the local hard rock scene and joined several bands, including Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. In 1985, he co-founded Guns N' Roses, with whom he had great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their first album, ''Appetite for Destruction'' (1987), has sold in excess of 30 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time in the U.S. with 18 million units sold. Its full-length follow-ups, the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bailey (American Actor)
Bill Bailey (born September 2, 1938) is an American actor and author, primarily providing supporting roles in film and television throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He appeared in ''Superman'' (1978), ''Superman II'' (1980), and ''Haunted Honeymoon'' (1986), as well as a number of British television programs including ''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1987), ''Jeeves and Wooster'' (1992), and ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' (1993). He has also narrated an abridged version of Herman Melville's novel ''Moby Dick''. A number of Internet databases have misattributed his work to the British comedian Bill Bailey. Life and career Bailey was born in a small rural town in North Carolina and attended Sanford Central High School. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1960 with a degree in philosophy, spent some time in the US Army, and then as prison guard in Canada. He married a Texan heiress, and moved to Houston, Texas where he managed a ranch and took part in motorbike scra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bailey (dancer)
Willie Eugene Bailey (December 8, 1912 – December 12, 1978), known professionally as Bill Bailey was an African-American tap dancer. The older brother of actress and singer Pearl Bailey, Bill was considered to be one of the best rhythm dancers of his time and was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, although he referred to it as the "Backslide," in the film '' Cabin in the Sky'' (1943), starring Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Lena Horne. Early life Bill Bailey was born Willie Eugene Bailey in the small town of Sedley, Virginia in Southampton County, Virginia to Joseph James Bailey and Ella Mae Ricks Bailey. He was named after Eugenia V. Turner who was the midwife that helped deliver him. He spent his adolescence in Newport News, Virginia and Philadelphia. His father, Reverend Bailey, raised all his children Christian and hoped that Bill would also choose to become a minister. Career At eighteen years old, Bailey was discovered in New York by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bailey (actor)
William Norton Bailey (born Gardner Warren Reineck; September 26, 1886 – November 8, 1962) was an American actor and director. Personal life William Norton Bailey was born Gardner Warren Reineck on 26 September 1886 in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Rebecca Gardener Phillips and Jesse P. Reineck, his father was a Western Union telegraph operator. The family moved around the country based on Jesse’s work. The Reineck’s divorced after 1900 when Jesse was arrested, along with five other telegraph operators, for defrauding American Express. William's mother settled the family for a number of years in Milwaukee. Bailey was married on 1917 in Philadelphia to Mary Cannon, an actress who worked under the professional names of Polly Vann and Mary/Polly Bailey. They had no children. After their marriage, William, his new wife, and his mother moved to New York City where he was a director at Vitagraph Studios. After her death in 1952, he married a second time to Mrs. Aletha Hamilton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
