William Childs (restaurateur)
William Childs may refer to: * William Childs (restaurateur), co-founder of Childs Restaurants *William Macbride Childs (1869–1939), academic and historian * William Harold Joseph Childs, British physicist and academic author *Billy Childs (William Edward Childs, born 1957), musician * William Childs (boxer), British boxer * William Childs House, in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Riverside County, California See also * William Child (other) *George William Childs George William Childs (1829–1894) was an American publisher who co-owned the '' Public Ledger'' newspaper in Philadelphia with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel. Early life Childs was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 12, 1829, the illegitima ...

William Childs (restaurateur)
William Childs may refer to: * William Childs (restaurateur), co-founder of Childs Restaurants *William Macbride Childs (1869–1939), academic and historian * William Harold Joseph Childs, British physicist and academic author *Billy Childs (William Edward Childs, born 1957), musician * William Childs (boxer), British boxer * William Childs House, in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Riverside County, California See also * William Child (other) *George William Childs George William Childs (1829–1894) was an American publisher who co-owned the '' Public Ledger'' newspaper in Philadelphia with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel. Early life Childs was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 12, 1829, the illegitima ...

Childs Restaurants
Childs Restaurants was one of the first national dining chains in the United States and Canada, having peaked in the 1920s and 1930s with about 125 locations in dozens of markets, serving over 50,000,000 meals a year, with over $37 million in assets at the time. Childs was a pioneer in a number of areas, including design, service, sanitation, and labor relations. It was a contemporary of food service companies such as Horn & Hardart, and a predecessor of companies such as McDonald's. History The first Childs Restaurant was launched in 1889 by brothers Samuel S. Childs and William Childs, on the ground level of the Merchants Hotel (current site of One Liberty Plaza, also previously the Singer Building), at 41 Cortlandt Street (between Broadway and Church Street), in New York City's Financial District.Austin, Kenneth L."Childs Company Ups and Downs" ''The New York Times'', August 29, 1943 The brothers' concept for the establishment was to provide economical meals to the wo ...
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William Macbride Childs
William Macbride Childs (1869–1939) was an English academic administrator and historian, who was involved in the foundation of the University of Reading and who served briefly as its first vice-chancellor. Biography Childs was born, on 3 January 1869, in the village of Carrington, situated some north of Boston in Lincolnshire. He was the son of the Revd William Linington Childs, vicar of Carrington, and his second wife, Henrietta Fowles Bell. He had no brothers or sisters, but had a half-brother and two half-sisters by his father's first marriage. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School and graduated from Keble College of the University of Oxford in 1891. In 1892 Childs served briefly as a secretary to Sir Arthur Dyke Acland, who at the time was Vice-President of the Committee on Education, the cabinet post that then supervised education in the United Kingdom. In 1893 he became a lecturer in history at the University College in Reading, being promoted to vice-principal in 19 ...
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William Harold Joseph Childs
Prof William Harold Joseph Childs FRSE (19 January 1905 – 26 April 1983) was a British physicist and academic author. Life He was born in Bromley-by-Bow in London on 19 January 1905, the son of William and Elizabeth Jane Childs. He was educated at East Ham Grammar School and then attended the University of London, graduating with a BSc in 1924. He continued as a postgraduate, being awarded a PhD in 1928. He then received a position on the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (forming part of the Royal Institution where he worked from 1931 to 1940. During the Second World War, he worked in the Armaments Research Department at the Ministry of Supply and stayed in this role until demobbed in 1947. In 1947, he received a professorship from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and lectured in physics there until retirement in 1969. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1949, his proposers including Norman Feather Norman Feather FRS FRSE PRSE (16 November ...
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Billy Childs
William Edward Childs (born March 8, 1957) is an award-winning American composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States. Early life When he was sixteen he attended the Community School of the Performing Arts sponsored by the University of Southern California. He studied music theory with Marienne Uszler and piano with John Weisenfluh. From 1975–'79 he attended the University of Southern California and received a degree in composition under the tutelage of Robert Linn. While still a teen, Childs was playing professionally and he made his recording debut in 1977 with the J. J. Johnson Quintet during a tour of Japan, documented as "the Yokohama Concert". He gained significant attention during the six years (1978–84) he spent in trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's group. His early influences as a pianist included Herbie Hancock, Keith Emerson, and Chick Corea and as a composer, Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky. Childs neverthele ...
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William Childs (boxer)
William Child (7 August 1884 – 1961) was a British boxer. He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Child won the Amateur Boxing Association England Boxing, known until 2013 as the Amateur Boxing Association of England, is the Sports governing body, governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England. There are separate organisations for Scotland and Wales with boxing in Northern Irela ... 1908, 1909 and 1911 middleweight title, when boxing out of the Canbridge ABC. After retiring from boxing he became a University boxing and fencing coach at Cambridge. References External links * 1884 births 1961 deaths British male boxers Olympic boxers for Great Britain Boxers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing Middleweight boxers {{UK-boxing-bio-stub ...
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William Childs House
William is a masculine given name of Norman French 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, Liam, 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 German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ...
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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Riverside County, California
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Riverside County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Riverside County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. There are 95 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 2 National Historic Landmarks. Current listings Former listings See also *List of National Historic Landmarks in California *National Register of Historic Places listings in California *California Historical Landmarks in Riverside County, California References External links NoeHill Travels in California: Historic Sites in Riverside Countyfor a listing of ...
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William Child (other)
William Child was a composer. William Child may also refer to: *William Child (boxer), British boxer *William Child (MP) (died c.1398), MP for New Romney *William Child of Northwick, High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1586 or 1587 *William Child, High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1784 *William Child, owner and 16th-century Lord of Cofton Hackett Cofton Hackett is a village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove District of north east Worcestershire, England. It is southwest of the city centre of Birmingham and northeast of Worcester. In 2011, the village had a population of 1,893 but with ... See also * William Child-Villiers * William Childs (other) {{hndis, Child, William ...
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