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William Gardner (racing Driver)
William or Bill Gardner may refer to: Sport *Bill Gardner (baseball) (1868–1948), American baseball player *Bill Gardner (footballer) (1893–1973), English professional footballer *Bill Gardner (ice hockey) (born 1960), retired ice hockey player *Billy Gardner (born 1927), retired American baseball player *Billy Gardner, Jr. (born 1966), American baseball manager and son of Billy Gardner (born 1927) *William Jennings Gardner (1884–1965), American football player and member of Eliot Ness's "Untouchables" *Bill Gardner (football hooligan) (born 1954), English football supporter, former football hooligan and co-author of books on football hooliganism Military *William Linnæus Gardner (1771–1835), Indian officer * William M. Gardner (1824–1901), Confederate States Army brigadier general *William Gardner (sailor) (1832–?), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * William Gardner (VC) (1821–1897), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross Others * William Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Gardner (baseball)
William A. Gardner (September 6, 1868 – Unknown) was an American professional baseball player who played three games for the Baltimore Orioles of the American Association in . He was born in Baltimore, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to .... External links Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Maryland Baltimore Orioles (AA) players 1868 births 1948 deaths Petersburg (minor league baseball) players 19th-century baseball players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gardner (surgeon)
William Gardner (1846 – 7 April 1897) was a surgeon in the British colonies of South Australia and Victoria. Early life and education William Forrest Gardner was born in Birkenhead, England, in 1846, the eldest son of (Independent Presbyterian) Rev. John Gardner and his wife Catherine Gardner, née Forrest. The Rev. Dr. Gardner, wife, servant and three children arrived in South Australia aboard ''Condor'' in March 1850 after accepting a call to take over the newly erected Chalmers Church (now Scots Church) on North Terrace, Adelaide, and served that congregation with distinction until 1868, when he accepted a call to Launceston Tasmania (which appointment got off to a bad start, then deteriorated and ended in bitter hostility). Gardner was educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, and entered the English and Scottish Bank, where he worked for several years, before leaving to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he had a brilliant scholastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gardner Smith
William Gardner Smith (February 6, 1927 – November 5, 1974) was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. Smith is linked to the black social protest novel tradition of the 1940s and the 1950s, a movement that became synonymous with writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Willard Motley, and Ann Petry. Smith's third book, ''South Street'' (1954), is considered to be one of the first black militant protest novels. His last published novel, ''The Stone Face'' (1963), in its account of the Paris massacre of 1961, "stand as one of the few representations of the event available all the way up until the early 1990s". Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of African-American descent. After 1951, he maintained an expatriate status in France. However, due to his various journalistic and editorial assignments, he also lived for extended periods of time in Ghana, West Africa. In the final decade of his life, he traveled to the United States to visit family and frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gardner Hale
William Gardner Hale (February 9, 1849June 23, 1928), American classical scholar, was born in Savannah, Georgia to a resident New England family.G.L. Hendrickson, "William Gardner Hale," 24 Classic J. 167-73 (Dec. 1928). Hale was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated at Harvard University in 1870, and took a post-graduate course in philosophy there in 1874–1876; studied classical philology at Leipzig and Göttingen in 1876–1877; was tutor in Latin at Harvard from 1877 to 1880, and succeeding Tracy Peck as professor of Latin in Cornell University from 1880 to 1892, when he became professor of Latin and head of the Latin department of the University of Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 he was chairman and in 1895-1896 first director of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. Hale held honorary degrees from Princeton, St. Andrew's and Aberdeen Universities.Prof. W.G. Hale, Latin Scholar, Dies, N.Y. Times (June 24, 1928). He is best known as an original teacher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gardner (Massachusetts Judge)
William Sewall Gardner (October 1, 1827 – April 4, 1888) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1885 to 1887. He was appointed by Governor George D. Robinson. Born in Hallowell, Maine,"Ex-Judge Gardner Dead", ''Fall River Daily Evening News'' (April 4, 1888), p. 3."Memorial Service in Honor of the Late William Sewall Gardner", ''The Boston Globe'' (November 27, 1888), p. 8. Gardner graduated from Bowdoin College and read law in Lowell, Massachusetts, gaining admission to the bar in 1852. He practiced law in partnership with Theodore H. Sweetser until 1875, when Gardner was appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court, where he remained for ten years. In October 1885, Governor George D. Robinson appointed Gardner to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the death of Justice Waldo Colburn. Gardner served for less than two years. In March 1887, he attempted to carry out his judicial duties in hearing cases from the bench, but due to poor health ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hope
Peter Hope (born 2 November 1930) is a British composer and arranger. He is particularly noted for his light music compositions, such as the ''Ring of Kerry Suite'', which won an Ivor Novello award, and for his arrangements, such as "Mexican Hat Dance". He has also written a ''Recorder Concerto'' and arranged music for the 2003 Spanish royal wedding, as well as Jessye Norman and José Carreras. He is sometimes credited as William Gardner. Career Born in Edgeley, Stockport, Hope spent a lot of time at the cinema during his childhood, absorbing the musical scores, and began learning piano at the age of thirteen. One of his teachers was Dora Gilson, on the staff of the Royal Manchester College of Music. He began composing while still at school. From 1949 he studied music at Manchester University under Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895-1980) and Maurice Aitchison. His time there overlapped with Peter Maxwell-Davies and Elgar Howarth, who joined in 1952.Turner, John. 'Peter Hope, Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Gardner
Willie Gardner is a Scottish musician, who formed part of various pop and rock bands in the 1970s and 1980s, playing guitar. He was a cousin of Alex Harvey. His earliest known band was The Hot Valves, formed in 1976. The band was influenced by Bill Nelson and Mick Ronson, and their name was taken from a Be-Bop Deluxe EP. They were Gardner on guitars and lead vocals, Coling King on drums, and Danny Mitchell on keyboards (the latter two later of Modern Man and Messengers), and split up in 1977. In 1977, he joined a third band named Zones, composed of drummer Kenny Hyslop, keyboardist Billy McIsaac and bassist Russell Webb, who previously were part of PVC2, along with Midge Ure, who quit and moved to London to form the Rich Kids after the demise of the teenybop band Slik. They released singles including "Stuck with You", "Sign of the Times", "Looking to the Future" and "Mourning Star", and an album called ''Under Influence'' (1979), which was unsuccessful, before splitting up. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Gardner (politician)
Bill Gardner (born October 26, 1948) is an American politician who was the New Hampshire Secretary of State from 1976 to 2022. In that role, he was in charge of the department that oversees all general elections, primary elections, voter registration and recounts within the state, including the New Hampshire primary. His tenure is the longest of any secretary of state in U.S. history. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Career in politics Gardner began his career in New Hampshire politics as a state representative and was elected Secretary of State in 1976 by the state legislature. He was kept in office by both Democratic and Republican legislatures for more than 40 years. After the November 2018 election, he was narrowly re-elected over Colin Van Ostern in a vote on December 5, 2018. A strong supporter of New Hampshire's standing as the 'first in the nation' primary state, Gardner wrote ''Why New Hampshire'' with the late former Governor Hugh Gregg in October 2003, deta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Gardner (author)
Bill Gardner is an American business owner, graphic designer, speaker and author who founded Gardner Design and LogoLounge. Education Gardner is a graduate of Wichita North High School in Wichita, Kan., and he attended Kansas State University and Wichita State University, earning bachelor’s degrees in business and fine arts with an emphasis in design. Career Gardner started Gardner’s Graphic Hands, a graphic design firm, in 1983. In 1987, Gardner joined forces with Sonia Greteman and Susan Mikulecky to found American Institute of Graphic Arts Wichita. Gardner served as the chapter’s founding president. Gardner, Greteman and Mikulecky started a graphic design firm – Gardner, Greteman + Mikulecky – in 1989, which became Gardner + Greteman after Mikulecky left in 1992. In 1994, Gardner founded Gardner Design as the sole owner and president and remains such today. Gardner is also an international speaker on brand identity and graphic design. He presents logo trends ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Gardner
The Reverend William James Gardner (1825 – 25 November 1874) was a missionary of the London Missionary Society in Jamaica. He wrote a history of Jamaica that was published in 1873, founded the first Building Society in Jamaica, and also founded the Society for Promotion of Pure Literature. Early life and family William Gardner was born in 1825. Career Gardner was a missionary of the London Missionary Society. He and his wife embarked for Jamaica from London in September 1849 and took charge of the Chapleton mission station there. He moved to Kingston in January 1856 where he was the minister of the North Street Congregational Church. He wrote a history of Jamaica that was published in 1873, founded the first Building Society in Jamaica, and also founded the Society for Promotion of Pure Literature. Death Gardner died on 25 November 1874 and was buried at the North Street Congregational Church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Biscombe Gardner
William Biscombe Gardner (1847 – 23 February 1919, Tunbridge Wells) was a British painter and wood-engraver. Working in both watercolour and oils, he exhibited widely in London in the late 19th century at venues such as the Royal Academy and the Grosvenor Gallery. From 1896 he lived at Thirlestane Court. He illustrated a number of books featuring the British landscape (see below), notably ''Kent'', ''Canterbury'', and ''The Peak Country''. He also drew scenes from the Welsh Elan Valley in the 1890s, before it was flooded to form the Elan Valley Reservoirs, which appeared in two books by Grant Allen (see "illustrated Books" below). However, it was as a superlative wood-engraver that he was mainly known in his lifetime. He "raised the art of wood-engraving to a very high pitch of excellence" remarked the ''Kent and Sussex Courier'' in 1916. His prints (sometimes large) were widely published in many British magazines of the day such as ''The Pall Mall Gazette'', ''The Illustrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William E
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 should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
