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William Fitzgerald (other)
William Fitzgerald may refer to: *William FitzGerald (bishop) (1814–1883), Anglican bishop, first of Cork, Cloyne and Ross and then of Killaloe and Clonfert *William Fitzgerald (Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh) (died 1722), Anglican bishop in Ireland *William FitzGerald (Irish judge) (1906–1974), Irish lawyer and judge *William Fitzgerald (Tennessee politician) (1799–1864), United States Representative from Tennessee *William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster (1749–1804), Irish liberal politician and landowner *William FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Kildare (died 1599), Irish nobleman *William FitzGerald-de Ros, 22nd Baron de Ros (1797–1874), British Lord and general *William Fitzgerald, Niagara Falls daredevil who used the alias Nathan Boya *William Charles Fitzgerald (1938–1967), United States Navy officer who was killed in action during the Vietnam War * William F. Fitzgerald (1846–1903), California Attorney General and a California Supreme Court justice * William H. G. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William FitzGerald (bishop)
William FitzGerald (1814–1883) was an Anglican bishop, first of Cork, Cloyne and Ross and then of Killaloe and Clonfert. FitzGerald was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, M.D. (d.1838), former Crown Physician at Madras, India, by his second wife, Mary (d.1821), daughter of Edward William Burton of Clifden, County Clare, and younger brother of Francis Alexander FitzGerald, third baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. He was born at Lifford, Limerick on 3 Dec. 1814. He was first educated at Midleton College, County Cork, and then entering Trinity College, Dublin, in November 1830, obtained a scholarship in 1833, the primate's Hebrew prize in 1834, and the Downes's premium for composition in 1835 and 1837. He took his degree of B.A. in 1835, his M.A. in 1848, and his B.D. and D.D. in 1853.G. C. Boase, revised by David Huddleston"Fitzgerald, William (1814–1883)"in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' online, accessed 22 April 2019, He was ordained deacon on 25 April 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William J
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 Vincent Fitzgerald
William Vincent Fitzgerald, (21 July 1867 – 6 August 1929) was an Australian botanist. He described five genera and about 210 species of plants from Western Australia, including 33 ''Acacia'' and several ''Eucalyptus'' species. He also collected for other botanists such as Ferdinand von Mueller and Joseph Maiden, and was known through his work on orchids. ''Eucalyptus fitzgeraldii'' was named for him by William Blakely. Fitzgerald was born on the goldfields in north-eastern Tasmania and at the age of 16 was training for a career in mining, but by the time he was in his early 20s he was corresponding with, and sending plant specimens to Mueller. In 1903 he was a member of Western Australian Royal Commission on Forests, and the following year chairman of the Forests Advisory Board of Western Australia. In that year he described 23 ''Acacia'' species, mostly from the south-west of Western Australia, in the first edition of ''Journal of the West Australian Natural History Society' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas Fitzgerald
William Thomas Fitzgerald (13 April 1759 – 9 July 1829) was an Irish/British poet. Life Fitzgerald was the son of Colonel John Austen (or Anster) Fitzgerald of the Dutch service and Henrietta Martin, daughter of an Antigua planter and sister of Samuel Martin MP. Fitzgerald's own sister married barrister John Anthony Fonblanque. The family were linked to the Fitzgerald family of Munster. Educated at Greenwich, the Royal College of Navarre in the University of Paris and the Inner Temple where his tutor was Vicary Gibbs''William Thomas Fitz-Gerald -The Annual Biography and Obituary 1830'' Longman Rees & Co, London, 1830 he married very late in life to Maria Howorth in December 1826. It appears only one of their children was born after this marriage. They were the parents of the Victorian painter John Anster Fitzgerald. Employed until about 1805 in the Navy pay-office Fitzgerald became subject to 'an asthma' for the last 30 years of his life and suffered from dropsy. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William T
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 Fitzgerald (educationalist)
William Sanderson Fitzgerald (12 November 1838 – 27 January 1920) was a New Zealand teacher and educationalist. He was born in Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on 12 November 1838. In 1861, he was appointed by the Free Church of Scotland to be the principal of a Presbyterian boarding and day school in Pigeon Bay on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand's South Island. He and his wife reached Lyttelton in October 1861. At Pigeon Bay, they had twins on 20 March 1862, including the cricketer James Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald moved to Oamaru in 1869, and in 1876 was appointed to establish the Otago Normal School in Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th .... References 1838 births 1920 deaths 19th-century New Zealand educators Scottish emigrants to New Zealand { ... [...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 Patrick Fitzgerald
William Patrick Fitzgerald (26 July 1864 – 26 February 1938) was an Australian politician who served as Lord Mayor of Sydney in 1920. Actively involved in Labor Party politics, Fitzgerald was an alderman for the City of Sydney from 1904 to 1927. Fitzgerald was born in Sydney, New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ..., the son of William and Ellen Fitzgerald. Outside of politics, he was a grocer and merchant. He married Matilda Louise Byrne in 1899. The couple had three children. He died on 26 February 1938 at his residence in Randwick, Sydney, aged 73. References 1864 births 1938 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians Australian Labor Party councillors Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney Politicians from Sydney Colony of New South Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Fitzgerald (Kansas Politician)
William James Fitzgerald (November 1, 1861 – December 17, 1937) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1911 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. Life Fitzgerald was born in Monroe, Wisconsin. He attended the Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois. In the following years he taught schools in Illinois and Iowa. Since 1883 he lived in Dodge City, Kansas where he was engaged in the cattle and farming business. In addition he raised horses. He joined the Republican Party and became a member of the city council and the education board of Dodge City. In 1894 he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives where he became a member of the ways and means committee. He was also the chairman of a sub committee to investigate old claims and accounts against the state. He remained in this chamber until 1897. In 1906 Fitzgerald was elected to the office of the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. After a re-election in 1908 he served two terms in this position between 14 January 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Fitzgerald (jurist)
Sir William James Fitzgerald (May 1894 – July 1989) was a British and Irish jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Palestine during the time of the British Mandate. Early life Fitzgerald was born in Cappawhite, County Tipperary, Ireland in May 1894. He attended Blackrock College and Trinity College Dublin. During World War I he served in the Durham Light Infantry, being awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre. In 1922 he was called to the Bar of Ireland (at the King's Inns, Dublin) and the Bar of England and Wales (at the Middle Temple, London.) Colonial Service He was appointed Crown Counsel (a public prosecutor) in the colonial government of Nigeria in 1924. In 1932, he was appointed Solicitor-General in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); he became the Attorney General there in the following year. In 1937, he was appointed Attorney General of Palestine, at the time under British mandate. In 1944, he was appointed Chief Justice. In 1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Fitzgerald
William Henry Fitzgerald (1848–1922) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Fitzgerald was born May 15, 1848 in what is now Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Fitzgerald was originally a member during the 1878, 1879 and 1880 sessions. After the length of sessions were change to two years, he was again a member during the 1891 and 1893 sessions. Previously, Fitzgerald was Town Treasurer of Cedarburg in 1872 and Chairman (similar to Mayor) of Cedarburg in 1876 and 1877. Additionally, he was a justice of the peace. Fitzgerald was identified as an Independent Democrat and a Democrat. He married Teresa M. Dunn (1853–1933) and died on January 3, 1922, in Grafton, Wisconsin Grafton is a village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located about north of Milwaukee and in close proximity to Interstate 43, it is a suburban community in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The village incorporated in 1896, and a .... References 1849 births 1922 deaths People from Cedarburg, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fitzgerald (Bishop Of Clonfert And Kilmacduagh)
William Fitzgerald was an Anglican bishop in Ireland at the end of the 17th-century and the beginning of the 18th.Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 350–351. . Fitzgerald had previously been Archdeacon of Ross, Ireland then Dean of Cloyne from 1671 to 1791 when he was nominated for the See See or SEE may refer to: * Sight - seeing Arts, entertainment, and media * Music: ** ''See'' (album), studio album by rock band The Rascals *** "See", song by The Rascals, on the album ''See'' ** "See" (Tycho song), song by Tycho * Television * ... of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh on 9 December 1690. He was consecrated on 26 July 1691 and died in 1722. References Deans of Cloyne Bishops of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh 1722 deaths Archdeacons of Ross, Ireland Place of birth missing {{Ireland-Anglican-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
