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William Barker (MP For Berkshire)
William Barker may refer to: Politicians *William Barker (translator) ( 1570), English translator and MP for Great Yarmouth and Bramber * William Barker (MP for Berkshire) (died 1685), English Member of Parliament for Berkshire *Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet (1685–1731), British Member of Parliament for Ipswich, Thetford and Suffolk * William Barker (Queensland politician) (1819–1886), member of the Queensland Legislative Council *William J. Barker (Denver mayor) (1832–1900), American politician Judges * William J. Barker (1886–1968), American lawyer and judge * William M. Barker (born 1941), Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995 to 2009 Sportspeople * William Barker (Surrey cricketer) (1857–?), English cricketer *William Barker (tennis), British tennis player *Billy Barker (footballer, born 1883) (1883–1937), footballer for Middlesbrough F.C. in the early 20th century; see List of Middlesbrough F.C. players *Bill Barker (footballer) (1924–2002), f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barker (translator)
William Barker ( fl. 1572) was an English translator. Life Barker was born before 1522 and educated in the University of Cambridge at the cost of Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England. He appears to have commenced M.A. in 1540 and to have been a member either of Christ's College or of St. John's College. After some years spent travelling in Italy, he published ''Epitaphia et inscriptiones lugubres''. He then served as one of the members for Great Yarmouth in the parliaments which met in January 1557/8, January 1558/9, and April 1571 and was M.P. for Bramber in 1562/3. He was one of the Duke of Norfolk's secretaries, and was deeply implicated in that nobleman's plots. About 4 September 1571, as a result of the discovery of the Ridolfi Plot, he was committed to the Tower of London. At first he denied what was imputed to him, but he was soon induced by fear of the rack to make confessions which seriously involved the duke, who, however, denied many of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Morris Barker
William Morris Barker (May 12, 1854 – February 21, 1901) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia from 1894 to 1901. He also served as bishop of the former Episcopal Diocese of Western Colorado The Episcopal Diocese of Western Colorado was a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America from 1892 to 1898 and from 1907 to 1919. In 1892 Western Colorado was detached from the Diocese of Colorado and constituted as a Miss ... from 1893 to 1894. Episcopacy William Morris Barker was consecrated on January 25, 1893, to the Missionary Diocese of Western Colorado. In 1894 he became the fourth Missionary Bishop of Olympia and then became the first bishop of the Diocese of Olympia. He died February 21,The Living Church Annual 1944, pgs. 380-381 1901 References * Thomas E. Jessett, "The Episcopate of William Morris Barker Second Missionary Bishop of Olympia (1894-1901)" in ''Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church'', Vol. 39, No. 3 (September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwa (art)
Schwa is the underground conceptual artwork of Bill Barker (born 1957). Barker draws deceptively simple black and white stick figures and oblong alien ships. However the artwork is not about the aliens: it is about how people react to the presence of the aliens and branding and Barker uses them as a metaphor for foreign and unknown ideas. Schwa became an underground hit in the 1990s. Artwork and themes In linguistics, a schwa is an unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel (rounded or unrounded). Such vowels are often transcribed with the symbol ə, regardless of their actual phonetic value. An example in English is the ''a'' in ''about''. For Barker, Schwa is alternately his pseudonym, a fictitious omnipresent corporation, a religion, or a resistance movement against corporate conspiracies and aliens. It is often a combination of all four at once. Schwa artwork is black and white, with very precise stick-figu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Barker
William George Barker (18 January 1868, in Cheshunt – 6 November 1951, in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon) was a British film producer, director, cinematographer, and entrepreneur who took film-making in Britain from a low budget form of novel entertainment to the heights of lavishly-produced epics that were matched only by Hollywood for quality and style . Biography Early career His early career was that of a commercial traveller. He was evidently successful enough at this, that he was able to indulge his interest in photography. In 1901 he started a business at 50 Gray's Inn Road, Holborn for the purposes of making moving pictures on a hand cranked Auguste and Louis Lumière, Lumiere camera, which had bought a few years before and then showing the resulting films to the public -for a fee. This was the Autoscope Company. Like the early Mitchell and Kenyon films, the genre was mainly 'topicals'; for they require the least amount of preparation and expense. On 1 January 1906 i ... [...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 Robert Barker
William (Bill) Robert Barker is an Honorary Research Associate of the State Herbarium of South Australia. He is a former Chief Botanist of the State Herbarium. With Robyn Mary Barker and Laurence Haegi he had a particular interest in ''Hakea'' in the family Proteaceae. He was also involved in taxonomic revisions of ''Lawrencia'', ''Lasiopetalum'' and ''Spyridium''. In his retirement he is presently involved in outstanding research work, finalising revisions and publications. Dr. Barker is a life member and is the current President of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society Australasian is the adjectival form of Australasia, a geographical region including Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea. Australasian may also refer to: Institutions Commercial * Australasian Correctional Management, private company running .... His primary research expertise is in Biodiversity discovery, Species and populations and Ecological processes. Selected publications * * * References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Higgs Barker
William Higgs Barker (1744–1815) was an English Hebraist. Life Barker was of the same family as the Hebraist Samuel Barker, and son of George Barker, tailor, of Great Russell Street, London. He was admitted on the foundation of St. Paul's School, London 10 May 1756, aged twelve. He became Pauline Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1761, Perry Exhibitioner 1764–7, and took his degree of B.A. in 1765. He was also a fellow of Dulwich College, Surrey, and took holy orders. He was elected master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School at Carmarthen 22 July 1767, an office which he held for the rest of his life. He was also rector of Bleddfa from 1793. Works He published a short work, entitled 'Grammar of the Hebrew Language Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gibbs Barker
The Rev. William Gibbs Barker (1811 – 14 November 1897) was an English clergyman and genealogist. Barker became incumbent of St Paul's, Walsall, in 1839 after he became head master of the Free Grammar School there to which the incumbency of that church was attached. In 1844 he was appointed minister of Holy Trinity Church, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. 11 September 1847. British Newspaper Archive. Retrieved 10 January 2016. Barker was the first incumbent of when that parish was formed in 1865 but became blind in 1867 and resigned at that time. Barker died 14 November 1897 at |
William George Barker
William George Barker, (3 November 1894 – 12 March 1930) was a Canadian First World War fighter ace and Victoria Cross recipient. He is the most decorated serviceman in the history of Canada. Early life Born on a family farm in Dauphin, Manitoba, "Will" Barker grew up on the frontier of the Great Plains, riding horses, shooting, and working as a youngster on his father's farm and sawmill. ''constable.ca''. Retrieved 28 September 2010."Major William George Barker." ''billybishop.net.'' Retrieved: 28 September 2010."Barker Family." sitescapers.com. Retrieved 28 September 2010. He was an exceptional shot, using a |
William Burckhardt Barker
William Burckhardt Barker (1810?–1856) was an English orientalist. Life Barker was born about 1810, at which time John Barker, his father, was consul at Aleppo. From both his parents he inherited a singular linguistic aptitude. He was the godson of John Louis Burckhardt, who, about the time of his birth, was for several months the guest of his father. He was brought to England in 1819, and educated there. From his early boyhood he prosecuted the study of oriental languages, and became at length as familiar with Arabic, Turkish, and Persian as he was with the chief languages of Europe. After his return to Syria Barker undertook a journey to the scarcely known sources of the Orontes, no account of which, until the communication of his 'Notes' to the Geographical Society of London in 1836, had ever been published. Barker returned on 22 August 1835, to his father's residence at Suediah, near the mouth of the Orontes, and during part of the succeeding winter played chess almost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barker (prospector)
William Barker (1817–1894), also known as Billy Barker, was an English prospector who was famous for being one of the first to find a large amount of gold in the Cariboo of British Columbia. He was also the founder and namesake of Barkerville, the most significant town during the region's gold rush, which is preserved today as a historic town. Biography Barker was born in 1817 in March, Cambridgeshire, England, and was baptised on 7 June 1817 in St Wendreda's Church, March. As a child he worked as a waterman on the waterways of England. He married widow Jane Lavender in Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire in 1839, and they had one daughter named Emma Eliza (born 1840). By the 1840s, railways had begun to replace canal transport in England, and Barker decided he would try his luck in America. He left his wife and child in England in penury; his wife died in the workhouse in Doddington, Cambridgeshire in 1850. Barker traveled to California, where he made little during the California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Barker (chemist)
William Barker (1810–1873) was the second professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland from 1850 to 1873. Barker was born in Dublin in 1810 as the son of Francis Barker M.D., professor of chemistry at Trinity College Dublin.Frederic BoaseBarker, William in ''Modern English Biography'' (2018) He was educated in Arts and Medicine in Trinity College Dublin, and in 1832 took the degree of B.A. in 1835 that of M.B. and in 1842 proceeded to the M.D. degree. He was a fellow of the College of Physicians, of which, in 1854, he became vice-president but he never practised as a physician. In 1836, he began to lecture on Chemistry in the Richmond School Dublin and in 1850 succeeded Prof. James Apjohn as the Chair of Chemistry in the RCSI. While this would be unusual today, in the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century the cultivation of chemical sciences and the practice of medicine were frequently associated with the same person. Barke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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