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William Baxter (other)
William Baxter may refer to: Politicians * William Baxter (Nova Scotia politician) (1760–1832), physician and politician in Nova Scotia *William Edward Baxter (1825–1890), British politician and traveller *William Duncan Baxter (1868–1960), mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, 1907–1908 * William Baxter (Scottish politician) (1911–1979), British Labour Party politician, MP 1959–1974 Scholars and educators * William Baxter (scholar) (1650–1723), Welsh scholar * William Baxter (Oxford Botanic Garden curator) (1787–1871), Scots botanist, author of ''British Phaenogamous Botany'' * William Baxter (botanist) (died c. 1836), English botanist who collected in Australia * William Baxter (law professor) (1929–1998), American law professor * William H. Baxter (born 1949), American linguist * William Baxter (clergyman) (1820–1880), second president of Arkansas College Other * William Giles Baxter (1856–1888), English cartoonist * William Robert Baxter (born 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baxter (Nova Scotia Politician)
William Baxter (c. 1760 – November 22, 1832) was a physician, businessman and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Cornwallis Township from 1793 to 1799 in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He was born in New Hampshire, the son of Captain Simon Baxter and Prudence Fox. In 1783, he married Ruth Sheffield. Baxter later married Julia Swigo. He was one of the first physicians in Kings County, Nova Scotia. He died in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia Cornwallis Park is a rural community in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada. As of the 2021 Canadian census, 2021 census, the population was 488, an increase of 1.9% from 2016. History The community is located .... References * ''A Directory of the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1958'', Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1958) 1760s births 1832 deaths Nova Scotia pre-Confederation MLAs Loyalists who settled Nova Scotia {{NovaScotia-MLA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Edward Baxter
William Edward Baxter (24 June 1825 – 10 August 1890) was a Scottish businessman, Liberal politician and travel writer. Background and education Born in Dundee, Angus, Baxter was educated at the High School of Dundee and the University of Edinburgh. He was the son of Edward Baxter, a benefactor and reformer who had opposed the corn laws. He became a partner in his father's firm of Edward Baxter & Co. (afterwards W. E. Baxter & Co.). Political career Baxter was Liberal Member of Parliament for Montrose Burghs from 1855 to 1885, and served under William Ewart Gladstone as Secretary to the Admiralty from 1868 to 1871 and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1871 to 1873. He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1873. He was also President of the first day of the 1883 Co-operative Congress. He retired from Parliament in 1885. When the Liberal Party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule in 1886, Baxter supported the Unionist faction until his death. Family William Edw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Duncan Baxter
William Duncan Baxter (14 June 1868 – 7 January 1960) was a businessman, politician, and the Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1907 to 1908. The theatre, generally known as "The Baxter", a performing arts complex in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, was named in his honour. Early life Baxter was the third son of David William and Jane Baxter, his father being a jute manufacturer. Baxter attended the High School of Dundee in Dundee and the University College. In 1886 he emigrated to South Africa, where he joined William Duncan and Co. in Cape Town, a drapery business of his uncle. When his uncle died in 1895, he became the owner of the business. Public life Baxter showed great interest in political and civic affairs and from 1904 he was a member of the Cape Town City Council and Mayor of Cape Town, from 1907 to 1908. In the organized commerce movement, he served as president of the Cape Town Chamber of Commerce from 1916 to 1918, and again from 1926 to 1928. He was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baxter (Scottish Politician)
William Baxter (4 December 1911 – 20 April 1979) was a British Labour Party politician, building contractor and farmer. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War. Having served as a councillor, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for West Stirlingshire from 1959 until he stood down at the October 1974 general election. He was asked to stand down by his Constituency Labour Party after the indecisive election of February 1974, when he appeared on television calling for an all-party government of national unity, and suggested that the Duke of Edinburgh could chair its meetings. In 1961, as a protest against bipartisan support for British nuclear weapons, he voted against the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, and British Army Estimates in the House of Commons, and was suspended from the Labour Party Whip from March 1961 until May 1963. Baxter received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University ( gd, Oilthigh Heriot-Watt) is a public res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baxter (scholar)
William Baxter (1650–1723) was a Welsh scholar. Life He was born at Lanhigan in Shropshire, son of a brother of Richard Baxter. When he went to Harrow School at the late age of eighteen, he could neither read nor understand one word of any language but Welsh. He soon, however, acquired much classical learning. He carried on an extensive correspondence with all the prominent men of his generation. His profession was that of a schoolmaster, first in a boarding school at Tottenham High Cross (Middlesex), and later as master of the Mercers' School, London, where he remained for upwards of twenty years. He died 31 May 1723. Works His first publication was an advanced Latin grammar, called , 1679. He made his most significant mark by his ''Anacreon'', published in 1695, and which included two odes by Sappho. Later opinion pronounced it over-bold in its readings. It was reprinted in 1710, and Joshua Barnes charged Baxter with borrowing largely in the second edition from his own edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baxter (Oxford Botanic Garden Curator)
William Baxter ALS, FHS (Rugby, Warwickshire, 15 January 1787 – 1 November 1871), was a British botanist, author of ''British Phaenogamous Botany'' and appointed curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden in 1813. '' British Phaenogamous Botany or Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of British Flowering Plants'', was published in 6 volumes by William Baxter between 1834 and 1843, with 509 hand-coloured copper-plate engravings by Isaac Russell (an Oxford glass painter) and C. Matthews. These men were not trained botanical artists, but gradually acquired a good working knowledge of the subject. The engravings were later hand-coloured by Baxter's daughters and daughter-in-law. The volumes were sold by ''Whittaker, Treacher and Co., London'' and ''John W. Parker''. William Hart Baxter (c.1816–1890), William Baxter's son, succeeded his father as curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing a botanical name. References S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baxter (botanist)
William Baxter (born 1787 - died between 1830 and 1836) was an English gardener who collected in Australia on behalf of English nurserymen and private individuals. He had developed his horticultural reputation as gardener to the Comtesse de Vandes in Bayswater, London, many of the plants he had nurtured being used for illustrations in ''Curtis's Botanical Magazine''. He was the first privately financed plant collector to be sent to Australia, his mission being to collect seeds and roots for the London seedsman F. Henchman.Clough, 2002. ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens''. Oxford University Press: Melbourne. p. 79. Baxter's collections were made at Kangaroo Island (1822–1823), the southern coast of Western Australia (1823–1825), at King George Sound, Cape Arid and Lucky Bay, Twofold Bay, and Wilsons Promontory, Victoria (1826). The final expedition to Western Australia (1828–1829) was arranged by Charles Fraser. On his return they disagreed about the distribution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baxter (law Professor)
William Francis Baxter, Jr. (July 13, 1929 – November 27, 1998) was a law professor at Stanford University. His specialty was antitrust law. Antitrust Law As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1981–1983, Baxter commanded wide public attention when in 1982 he settled a seven-year-old case against AT&T with by far the largest breakup in the history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, splitting AT&T up into seven regional phone companies. On that same day, he dismissed as "without merit" a seemingly endless, thirteen-year-old suit against IBM, which had employed more than 300 lawyers and generated 2,500 depositions and 66 million pages of documents. Additionally, under his leadership, the U.S. Justice Department promulgated revised guidelines that it would use to enforce U.S. antitrust laws going forward. As part of that practice, he is the author of Baxter's Law or the Bell Doctrine. Animal Rights In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William H
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 Baxter (clergyman)
William Baxter ( – ) was an English-born American clergyman and author and second president of Arkansas College. William Baxter was born on in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. He came to the United States with his parents in 1828, was graduated at Bethany College in 1845, entered the Christian (Disciple) church and preached in various places in Mississippi and Arkansas, until he became president of Arkansas College, in Fayetteville. During the American Civil War the college was destroyed. In 1863 he removed to Cincinnati and devoted himself to preaching and literary work. He published a volume of poems in 1852, contributed largely to periodical literature, and has also aided in the preparation of several books, one of the most important being a large volume, ''The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion''. Of his '' Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas'', several editions were issued. His "War Lyrics," appearing originally in '' Harper's W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Giles Baxter
William Giles Baxter (1856–1888) was a British cartoonist and illustrator. His most noted work, from 1884 until his death, was for the weekly comic ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday''. Baxter had previously worked for the Manchester-based satiric magazine '' Momus/Comus'' before joining the staff at ''Judy'', whose editor, Charles Henry Ross, had created Ally Sloper, considered the first comic hero, The British Comics Collection at The British Library
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William Robert Baxter
William Robert Baxter (born August 1960 in Inverness, Scotland - died 16th October 2023) was a British foodservice and hospitality entrepreneur. Baxter was a leading figure of the industry for over 30 years, retiring from commercial life in 2011, continuing to serve the sector as Chairman of Hospitality Action from 2010. Baxter was also Chairman of the Scannappeal, a charity which raises funds to purchase life saving medical equipment for hospitals in Buckinghamshire. Life Baxter was the son of Ron Baxter, a civil engineer, who attended the University of Cambridge and was Chairman of Halcrow and Gillian Baxter. Baxter spent his early life in Scotland and Mid-Wales, until he was eight, when his family moved to Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex. Baxter was a pupil at Friends' School Saffron Walden from 1971-76. Although he was dyslexic, Baxter obtained sufficient A Levels and was offered places at university to study architecture, but instead decided to choose a career in hospitality, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
