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William Fell (priest)
William Fell may refer to: * William Scott Fell, Australian politician * William Fell (writer) (Walter) William Fell (1761/2 – 27 March 1848, Shap) was an English writer.C. W. Sutton‘Fell, (Walter) William (1761/2–1848)’ rev. Megan A. Stephan, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 9 M ..., English writer * William Richmond Fell, New Zealand naval officer See also * {{hndis, Fell, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scott Fell
William Scott Fell (20 July 1866 – 7 September 1930) was an Australian shipping merchant and politician. Fell was born at Elleray Villa, Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland and educated at Dollar Academy and Graham's Academy, Greenock, Scotland. After his father's death, they migrated with their mother, reaching Sydney in 1879. He set up as a broker and then had mixed success as a shipping and coal contractor, but had achieved success by the outbreak of World War I. He married Emma Catherine Bain in September 1889. Fell stood for election as an Independent Liberal to the seat of Middle Harbour in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1907 and 1913. In 1922, he won North Shore as an independent coalition candidate, which he held until his resignation in 1927 to contest a by-election for the federal seat of Warringah. Fell died of a stroke A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fell (writer)
(Walter) William Fell (1761/2 – 27 March 1848, Shap) was an English writer.C. W. Sutton‘Fell, (Walter) William (1761/2–1848)’ rev. Megan A. Stephan, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 9 March 2011 Life William Fell was probably born near Brampton, Cumberland. He was a schoolmaster successively at Manchester, Wilmslow, and Lancaster, and was an industrious writer for the press. After his retirement he lived at Clifton, near Lowther, Westmorland Lowther is a civil parish in Eden District, Cumbria. Within the parish are the settlements of Lowther Village, Newtown or Lowther Newtown, Hackthorpe, Whale, and Melkinthorpe. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 402, increasing to .... He died in March 1848 at Shap, aged 86, predeceased by his wife Dorothy and son Edward. He left his substantial property to the children of his elder brother, John Fell of Swindale Head, thereby disinheriting his only surviving s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |